Rick, Tnx info.
Large than life size is good. Bifocals are bad. "Computer glasses" are always lost. Given the demographics of our society, such a "larger than life" full page display would be welcome by many. 73 de Brian/K3KO --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > >
