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High Res: Just Too Small

My new work place has kindly upgraded me from T43 to T60 (14.1" TFT display with 1400x1050). Sounds wonderful but I’m struggling to get my font sizes to a similar size as what I had with a 1024x768 resolution. (Apparently, I may soon need glasses!) I’ve tried using Large Fonts and also going to Display->Appearances->Advanced, but some things still really suck:

1) I have to zoom in every time I start up Firefox and although the text gets larger the formatting gets misaligned.
2) Some fonts are huge and others tiny. I suspect I can alter this manually, but I don’t know how, e.g., when I write mail in Outlook, the font size looks massive, even though it is 10 point, but the title and sender line are all tiny.

Thanks for any help you can give. As things are, I’d have preferred the lower resolution T43 screen.

Seahorse

well, if you are running windows, in "control panel," under "display," "settings" you can set the resolution to 1024x768. If you are running linux, then you may either use "vesafb" or else play with X configuration.

can't say I like the 1024x768 windows fonts (t22 SXGA+)

good luck:-)
tom

Thanks for your suggestion of reducing the resolution. However, doing that makes the font quite blurry -- not as crisp as the intend resolution. My T43 at that resolution is very clear, but the T60 isn't.

Well, I'd buy a 12" UXGA if they made it, so I'm afraid that I'm of no help here

Hmmm some versions of firefox can save your preferrred size.

Put your font size back to normal. Instead, go to DisplayProperties -> Settings -> Advanced -> DPI
You can change that to large. If it's not large enough, you can do custom and make it bigger.
After that, then consider increasing your font size, but as you found out, this will not uniformly affect everything.

In north america, the 14" sxga+ screeens shipped by IBM are preset to larger DPI because most ppl, like you, prefer the larger text.

This way, you get the benefits of higher resolution (sharper text) without tiny characters in most cases.

cool~
let's try with my X60s, but this is only a XGA... might be too large for me... hehe