Bernie, for starters - do not be distressed. I am the one who had the same problem,because I am halfway blind. You came to the right person wanting to know how to enlarge your print. There are a number of ways: 1. for starters: On the top right of the menu bar are a number of icons. The farthest left one resembles a computer screen. Here you can set a larger print.The default is 1440x 900. You go upwards and things get larger. But things get also more jaggged and fuzzy. So this is Not the preferred way, but will help in emergencies when you can't find anything else in the universe to help you enlarge. 2. Let's just start with mail ( but actually all the applications usually have this feature). On the top of the toolbar are a number of icons ( forward, flag, attach etc) The application comes with a default, but you can add a number of features to this ,one of which is to enlarge or vice versa, showing up by a big or small A. If you are in 'mail" click view , the window will show among others : Customize toolbar. There you see the default set,. but also all the other icons which you can drag into your own toolbar. I have the big and little A showing in every thinkable toolbar of every application. But you can also pull down under 'mail' : Here you go to preferences and click fonts and colors. You can select a font and its size.I have mine set for size 14 and some 16 and the font "Verdana" because I like its clean look. And you can read every message wonderfully well. I get the NEW York Times e-mail each day. And here comes the individual toolbar enlargement in very handy. 3. The browsers have the same capability. Take Internet explorer: Under "view" you can pull down the "Customize toolbar" and you can find all kinds of icons that might help you, including the one for enlargement : here a thick kind of a cross , and for making things smaller a sort of thickish pancake. But under "Eplorer" you can also pull down preferences and there you can enlarge your fonts permanently. Click on "languages and fonts." Safari has the A already showing on top. However, go to preferences and you can set the size and fonts permanently under "Appearance" For transferring files I am not the expert. This depends whether or not they are compatible to work in OSX and the version of OSX. Most of mine were ok and all were miraculously transferred from Claris 4 into Appleworks 6. Some non-apple subversives had to stay in 9 to be accessed through "classic". But this will be addressed by our esperts, I am sure. Marta
On Friday, Jun 20, 2003, at 15:05 America/New_York, Bernard A Griffis wrote: > Marta and others I may have forgot about, I took your advice and moved > to OS X. Now how do I get my text back to a size where I do not need a > magnifying glass to read? My first item that I have not been able to > locate is the old HP Photo and Image Gallery. I have experienced > difficulty in moving my old files to Apple Works 6. Any advice will be > greatly appreciated. Thanks: Bernie Griffis > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be June 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > > Marta | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be June 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
