Re: MacBook Pro High Resolution Screen

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:33:28 -0500, dumbstruck wrote
(in article
<926e08a4-0d4f-476c-ae8b-1f8ef86e517f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

Is there no way of increasing font size for native tool and menu bars
(whatever the term is)? On a 1920x1200 they go microscopic, and
workarounds aren't very satisfactory. Zooming or else flipping to
lower resolution seems to give fuzzy results, worse than a similar
laptop with a lower native resolution.

Try System Preferences -> Appearance -> Font smoothing style -> Medium - best
for Flat Panel.

The other is image smoothing which I'm (pretty sure) has to do with smoothing
images which are zoomed in.

To see a zoomed image, hold down the control key and scroll up with a
mouse/trackpad button, or hold down the control key and gesture a scroll up
if you have it enabled (two finger swipe up the track pad). To get back to
normal, hold down control and scroll down.

You know, most of those gestures are okay, but that scroll gesture is really
neat. I do it on my MacBook Pro, and miss it when I go to other Macs.

On a LCD display, I find it's always best to go full native resolution -
anything else is scaled which may work well on a good CRT (which is an analog
device) but really sucks on a flat panel which is digital (has a fixed number
of pixels).

Unfortunately, for many things this has the side-effect of shrinking them -
but would not with resolution independence turned on. In that case, your
fonts would get sharper (drawn at a larger size) but not smaller. These aging
eyes were hoping that RI had been implemented - about a year ago Apple was
saying it was important that everyone get on the wagon - but I guess that
went by the wayside.

OTOH, boy I sure do have a lot more screen real estate now. I can VNC into
the family's 20 inch iMac and do it in a window :-).

-- Verne

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