I am somewhat visually impaired and the windows/fonts are too small. I am new
to Apple and the sizes of both are so small I may have to go back to a PC.
Need help.
In email, it's best to view in Plain Text. You can easily toggle HTML off
with the ab/ab button at the top left next to the Font box.
Set your preference for Plain Text in Entourage preferences --> Fonts.
Fonts can be set for plain text and HTML. The settings for plain text only
affect what YOU see and not what the sender receives. The receiver will see
the messages with THEIR preferences. When setting plain text, choose what
you like. This is a great feature, especially if you like larger fonts for
easy viewing. However, the font and size you choose for "HTML messages
(proportional)" do reflect the default font for outgoing HTML mail and is
what the recipient will see.
HTML font size can sometimes be misinterpreted when sent from a Mac to PC.
This has been improved with the latest updates to Office X and 2004, but can
still cause problems. This is why plain text is preferred.
For more help with viewing messages see:
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http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/fonts.html>
Options for vision impaired:
Look at Coloristic -
http://www.bubblepop.com/coloristic/ This is a mouse
over magnification program. $12
Also, this link provides a lot of useful information on the Mac options,
used with, for example a PC mouse with a wheel.... wheel increases/decreases
magnification.
http://www.low-vision.org/index.php?dispage=77
If you register for a free Apple Developer account,
http://developer.apple.com/, and download the Xcode development tools that
come with it, you'll get a very good, free magnifying app called Pixie.
Pixie puts a magnified window (you select the magnification level) on your
Desktop. Pixie's default behavior is to follow the cursor, providing a
magnified window of wherever the cursor happens to be. If you dig into the
preferences, you can also make the window always float on top of all others.
Let me add that you can change the size of the Pixie window, too. Its
default size is adequate for many purpose but not ideal for reading text. If
you would like a larger window, you can increase the size by modifying
Pixie's .plist file--and that you can do with the Property List Editor,
another of the free tools you get with that developer's account. The keys to
modify in com.apple.Pixie.plist (it will be in your home directory after
you've run Pixie once, ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Pixie.plist) are
SourceHeight
SourceWidth
Change the numbers from 48 (which appears to equate to approximately 144
pixels) to something larger. There's probably an upper limit, but I don't
know what it is. (you can just grab the corner of the Pixie window to resize
it. Much easier that way.)
These suggestion were posted on the MacOSXHints forum:
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