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- From: monitn@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Nicholas Monitto)
- Subject: Re: Need Word Proc. with Zoom-in...
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- References: <1992Dec28.015654.9090@softwords.bc.ca>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 04:24:13 GMT
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- jmacphai@cue.bc.ca (James MacPhail) writes:
-
- >I'm looking for a word processing application that has a zoom-in
- >or magnification feature.
-
- >Anyone know of such a beast?
-
- The only thing I can think of is some sort of page-layout program with % views
- that can be changed. I understand that may well be overkill, but if there's no
- other alternative, it just might work. I believe programs range from Aldus
- PageMaker and Quark XPress (on the high end) down to Publish-It on the low end.
-
- Please correct me if I've missed something- I'd be interested if a smaller
- product actually supports this kind of feature...
-
- Nick
- monitn@rpi.edu
-
- >This is for someone with less than perfect vision. Close-View is
- >too crude to be useful for someone that isn't sure what is going
- >on (lost dialogs, menu-bar, insertion point, not to mention extra-
- >jaggy text) Can see Chicago-12 ok, so dialogs and the menu-bar are
- >fine, we just need to expand the view of the document (without
- >increasing the size of the text which would screw up the formatting)
-
- >Thanks for your help.
-
- >James MacPhail jmacphai@cue.bc.ca james@mirg2.phy.queensu.ca
-