Hi Brian, If you are using a large size monitor, you won't really lose a lot of text since the monitor screen real estate is physically larger than many of the smaller 4:3 monitors. Compare a 19" 4:3 running at 1280x1024, to a 22" wide screen 16:9 which typically runs 1680x1050. Your vertical is still larger than the previous monitor although I think there could be a smaller size pixel. Of course, one thing you can not do with LCD monitors is make the fonts larger by using a smaller resolution like we did with CRT monitors. And the operating system drivers must be able to handle the widescreen monitor. This should be no problem with MS products but my experience with Linux has been very disappointing.
[As I side note, the latest 7.10 Kubuntu, Tribe 4 (or 5?) that I downloaded today still does not support the Samsung 205/225 SyncMasters.] I am thankful that we can use the control - plus and minus keys to temporarily adjust font size in many documents as I have difficulty with some smaller fonts. Some monitors are intended to rotate sideways and you could use them to view a full document, however, I wonder if the 22" size monitors would be excessively large unless you wanted to see the entire page larger than lifesize? The real estate on my 22" monitor is 11 3/4" high and 18 1/2 inches wide. This enables me to place two pages side by side at almost full size and view most of both pages. I wish this had been available in the past when I used to be a consultant who did a fair amount of document development and needed to compare docs and cut and paste, etc. 73, Rick, KV9U Brian A wrote: > Rick, > > I am really bothered by loosing still more lines of text with these > wide screen beasties. The present OS's are like Stephen Kings > Langoliers. They eat away at available screen real estate. > > Any way to turn them 90 degrees and also rotate the windows display > screen so that a full page can be displayed? > > Brian/K3KO > >
