Hi Michael, My email Preferences for viewing are all 16. Printing is handled by your printer print settings. You do have A4 Paper Size selected & Scale 100% When you go File > Print in the print settings select ‘Rewrap message to fit’ which prints larger.
If you are having difficulty reading text on the screen, go to System Preferences > General select ‘Use LCD font smoothing when available. I also make my cursor a bit larger than default … System Preferences > Universal Access pane, switch to the Mouse & Trackpad view, and adjust the Cursor Size slider. If text is too small,make it bigger… when you are writing, change the font size temporarily; even if the final font size will be 14, set it at 18 while you work. In Safari > Preferences - Appearance Standard font: Times 16 (or whatever suits your eyes) Fixed-width font (select what suits) In Safari > Preferences > Advanced - Universal Access: never use font sizes smaller than 14 (or whatever suits you) You can have your Mac read Text to you to save your eyes. Open the Speech pane of System Preferences and switch to the Text to Speech view. In the System Voice pop-up menu, choose Customise. You’ll see a dialogue listing voices in many languages. Select one that corresponds to your system language, and press Play to hear a sample. I like Daniel (not Daniel Kerr, I mean I really like Daniel Kerr, but I don’t use his voice to read text to me ;-) The Daniel on my MBP sounds like British radio announcer. Daniel is one voice that isn’t already installed on your Mac you need to enable his checkbox and click OK and Software Update will install it for you. That is a few suggestions to perhaps help you. Cheers, Ronni On 17/02/2012, at 1:30 PM, Michael Hawkins wrote: > Hi Ronni and thanks, > > I use Classic mode and I use Rules for 90 odd mailboxes. I vet mail by using > my iPhone. I find I make fewer mistakes that way. I can't work out how to get > a decent font size in Mail. Even though I've selected Helvetica and 14 in the > preferences for Mail Fonts & Colours, the emails I print out print in what > looks to be smaller than 8 and the size is not much larger than that on the > screen when I'm reading emails. Perhaps font size is dictated by whatever the > sender of the emails is using. I'm having to peer at the screen when > proof-reading this reply. > > Catch you later, > > Michael. > > > > > > > On 17/02/2012, at 12:47 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> Hi Michael, >> >> My computer is not used for entertainment either, it is my work computer. >> >> Have you tried using "Classic Mode" in Mail, which is similar to Snow >> Leopard Mail? >> Might make it easier for you to sort through your email boxes to delete >> messages. >> I use "classic Mode" sometimes to quickly skim through the emails that come >> in over night, so I can prioritise messages that require my attention. >> >> I use Rules to move messages out of Inbox to approx 50 mailboxes. >> >> I don't like grey, so have colour icons in my Finder Sidebar and in iTunes. >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> Sent from Ronni's iPad >> >> On 17/02/2012, at 12:22 PM, Michael Hawkins >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Ronda, >>> I didn't install it. I had the misfortune of having to replace my MacBook >>> Pro a couple of months after extended Apple care expired. Lion was on the >>> be MacBook. My computer is used for business purposes, not entertainment. >>> Mail is tiresome. Hopefully it will become as efficient as it is on the >>> iPhone in terms of download speed and being able to whip through the emails >>> to delete what I don't to read. And as far as I'm concerned grey is the new >>> beige. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Michael. >>> >>> On 17/02/2012, at 12:00 PM, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On 17/02/2012, at 11:19 AM, Michael Hawkins wrote: >>>> >>>>> Lion is a pain in the butt to use. >>>>> >>>>> I hope that Mountain Lion isn't a more powerful pain. >>>>> >>>>> Michael Hawkins. >>>> >>>> Hi Michael, >>>> >>>> Boy, I don’t know why you upgraded to Lion, you have done nothing but >>>> complain about Lion ever since you installed it. >>>> Sure, we have all experienced things in Lion that are so very different to >>>> any other operating system we have become used to, but this is not >>>> necessary all bad. >>>> Lion is a learning curve from Snow Leopard and we have had to learn “How >>>> to use Lion” and how to customise it to suit the way we work. >>>> >>>> Mountain Lion is going to be more iOS than Lion is, Mountain Lion is >>>> building on Lion and it is the way Apple is moving into the future. >>>> Mountain Lion from what I have read is going to be a very secure operating >>>> system. Gatekeeper is a significant advance in the history of Mac security. >>>> Gatekeeper should ensure that we never see a Mac malware epidemic. It >>>> limits the kind of downloaded applications that will run on a Mac. >>>> >>>> I read these comments online and I agree with this person: >>>> /Extract taken from: >>>> Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Stalks iOS: >>>> >>>> This upgrade from 10.7 Snow Leopard to 10.8 Mountain Lion isn’t meant to >>>> be a major overhaul like the one we saw moving from 10.6 Snow Leopard to >>>> 10.7 Lion. The core user experience remains largely the same, with a >>>> series of enhancements that build on the changes made in Lion. >>>> >>>> If Apple pulls this off it will be one of the most ambitious leaps in the >>>> history of consumer technology. >>>> Just as the Mac changed desktop computing, the iPod changed the way we >>>> listen to music, and the iPhone transformed the mobile phone into >>>> something from science fiction, the overlap of iCloud, Lion, and iOS could >>>> change everything we know about personal computing. >>>> >>>> Mountain Lion is the clearest indication yet that Apple shares this >>>> vision, and if they succeed, how we use our computers, tablets, phones, >>>> and perhaps even televisions will never be the same. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Ronni >>>> >>>> >>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
