Hi Paul, You CAN do something about the Ribbon. There's a little arrow on the right which minimises the ribbon. Click on the a Ribbon header and the Ribbon pops up until you've chosen the function you want and then disappears again.
You can also customise the Quick Access Toolbar top left. You do this by clicking on the Design on the right of the Ribbon, then Toolbar. You may need to close and re-open Legacy to see your selections. There's a Maximum of 10 icons that can permanently be placed on the Quick Access Toolbar. Other icons can be added for the session by right clicking on them in a Ribbon and choosing to add to the Quick Access Toolbar. You may want to increase your minimum font. Some of the issues where it appears to us there's more room for things relate to Legacy being international and some languages requiring more room. Legacy 8 does not always resize correctly when you change window size. If this happens for you, just resize it again slightly and things should pop back to normal for that window size. Cathy At 10:27 AM 28/11/2013, you wrote: >Hi, > >I'm struggling to configure Family View to give me the same 'large >fonts' that I was able to get in V7. I am using the same settings in >both V7 and V8. In Screen Fonts, Data is set Verdana 10 pt, Labels >to Arial 10 pt, "stretch fonts when resizing is checked", and min >font size is 10, max font size 99. > >The names, dates, and location data displayed in Family View are >significantly smaller in V8, I estimate 2-3 pts. > >Some reasons: > >1. The new ribbon takes up more space than the old toolbar. > >2. In the Parents boxes at the top, a line has been added with the >word Parents with a plus sign on the right to add parents. This >takes up one third of the available space. If that wasn't there, >there would literally be 50% more space to stretch the fonts for the >parents names. > >3. In the Husband and Wife boxes, there is a fair amount of white >space under the names. The names themselves have a very similar size >to V7, but the extra white space below (with FS arrows if turned >on), leave less real estate for the vital events below. > >4. In the children section, there is the title "Children" with icon >to the right to access the functions we used to right click to >access (e.g. child sorting). Not really sure why this results in >smaller fonts as they did take away one child line ( now 4 vs. 5) to >accommodate the 'title' line. > >I'm sure there is nothing I can do about the ribbon, that's just the >way things are. But, are there any options to otherwise change the >elements of family view so that I could get bigger fonts. > > >I don't think this is a show-stopper, but one of the things I liked >about Legacy V7 was how I could get large easy to read screen fonts. >They have certainly maintained the ability to have a variable font >size to take advantage of large monitors, but the putting additional >'titles' and white space on the screen has effectively reduced the >font size of names, dates and locations. > >Hoping there is some setting I can tweak, if not I will live with it. > >Paul Gray > > >Legacy User Group guidelines: >http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp >Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp >Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) >and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). >To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
