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From: vera@cadence.com (Vera Vallentin-Price)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Ventura Publisher with portriat monitor
Keywords: What about landscape?
Message-ID: <1990May3.195155.12371@cadence.com>
Date: 3 May 90 19:51:55 GMT
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In article <5387@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> arasmith@mathcs.emory.edu (David Arasmith) writes:
>I have a friend at work that does most of her work in VP in portrait
>mode.  Consequently she has a 19" portrait monitor (Viking).  However,
>on a few occasions she has work to do in landscape mode.  The problem is
>that her portrait monitor will not scroll from side to side.  She would
>like, then, to use her 8512 VGA (standard) monitor to do these jobs since
>you CAN scroll on these.  After searching the documentation neither of us
>could find anything about switching output devices.  In other words,
>short of disconnecting the big monitor is there any way to start up VP
>using the small one?
>

If her Viking monitor is a VGA monitor, she should try Softkicker. That
is an inexpensive program that eliminates scrolling alltogether by
implementing the use of the right button mouse for zooming in and out.
I used to hate having to scroll around the document. Now, I click the
right mouse button to see the entire page (yes, even landscape), and
then I place the mouse cursor in the part of the document that I want
to see and click the right mouse button again. It goes very fast and
becomes second nature. 

That does not answer her question about switching monitors, but it may
not be necessary at all with Softkicker. The program is available for
under $100 (I'm not quite sure if it was $79 or $99) and is advertised
in the same magazines that Ventura is advertised in (Publish!, Personal
Publishing, etc.).

Vera.