Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utcsri!qucis!cordy
From: cordy@qucis.UUCP (Jim Cordy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 72 vs. 95 dpi large screens
Message-ID: <112@qusunitf.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jul 88 18:32:10 GMT
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Reply-To: cordy@qusunitf.UUCP (Jim Cordy)
Organization: Queen's University, Kingston Ontario
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Keywords: large screens, small print

I am a user of the Radius two page display (90 dpi, 63 Hz refresh),
but I'm far sighted, so I'm also concerned with font sizes and readability.
I found it necessary to hack my Finder and terminal emulators to give
me a larger font to avoid going blind.  

The good news is that this is relatively straightforward if you know how 
to use ResEdit - just change the fonts in the application to the fonts 
you want.  I use 10 pt instead of 9 pt in the Finder, 14 pt Courier instead
of 9 pt Monaco in MacTerminal, and 14 pt Courier instead of smaller Mishawaka
fonts in Unix Windows.

For text processing, I suggest using WriteNow, since it allows you to 
edit on the screen in 12 pt but print the result in 10 pt without any
distortion of either the page or the rulers.  You can even use somthing
larger than 12 if you prefer.

Anyway, there's one way to take advantage of large dense screens even if
you are half blind like me.

Jim

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