Hi Christina. VMWare Fusion 2 currently does not work with ZoomText. It will install and run, but using any level of magnification causes screen corruption when the visible area moves. In short, its unusable for magnification, though I've used some of its screen reading features with decent success. When I discovered this a year go, I contacted VMWare support and informed them of the issue. They replied stating that they found the problem but that it could not be fixed in the current version. Fusion 3 has been announced and will be available on October 27. I hope to try it in some fashion and I will report back on my findings when I can.
If viewing images is your primary concern and you don't need or want to run Windows otherwise, you might look into the zoom options in Universal Access for the "smooth images" checkbox. By default, OS X uses anti-aliasing to reduce pixel visibility, but it does cause a good deal of blurriness on fonts and images at higher magnification. Unchecking that should help. Option-Command-Backslash will toggle it also and save you a trip through system preferences. The other thing that may help is the contrast adjustment in Universal Access. There is a slider there or you can use Control-Option-Command-Comma to decrease contrast and Control-Option-Command-Period to increase it. Hope this helps, Matt On Oct 19, 2009, at 4:20 PM, Christina wrote: > > Hello list, > > I was wondering if zoomtext works in the the windows virtual > environment using vmware fusion. I've heard of some of you using jaws > while in windows with vmware fusion. I really have limited vision but > what love to use zoomtext to look at some photos of family. I do not > currently have windows installed on my macbook anywhere and have not > had any need for windows. However, I don't feel the zoom that comes > equipped on the mac does a good enough job on the photos. I don't > know if it's the monitor on my macbook, the zoom on the mac, or my > decreased vision, but any photos are very blurry, pixelated, and > washed out. So, wanted to see if zoom text would be a better > option. I'm not thrilled about putting windows on my mac but it seems > that many of you do this with no problems. > > Thanks, > Christina > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
