Whatever you say ALWAYS makes sense :)) Perhaps I should have said 'apparent' link to font size,which for my eyes does appear to give greater clarity after reducing the resolution. Isn't it great that you have such basic understanding of the how's and why's of the system - most of us do it 'by gosh and by golly' :)
my appreciation as usual, Bea [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >On Jun 21, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Bea Hopkinson wrote: > >> I am familiar with the Set Up for changing fonts etc. but as you >> say it doesn't work for downloaded Emails. However, your advice >> about the resolution I feel did help a bit. But why the resolution >> should >> be linked to the font size I am not clear! > >It isn't linked to font size. > >What happens is, when you increase the resolution, you are telling it >to fit more pixels (the little dots that make up everything you see >on screen) into the same amount of space. In order to do that, it >needs to draw each dot smaller. The side effect is, smaller dots >means everything they make up is smaller as well. > >Think of it this way. If a dot normally takes up 1 inch (obviously it >doesn't, but it makes for easy discussion). And the letter T is 4 >dots high that means the letter T on screen would be 4 inches high. >Now you change to a higher resolution. In the new resolution setting, >each dot now only takes up 1/2 inch, but twice as many can now appear >on screen. The letter T from before however is still only 4 dots >high, and at 1/2 inch per dot now, the same letter T is only 2 inches >high instead of the original 4 inches high. > >So the resolution change isn't really telling it to make all the text >smaller, it is just a side effect of squeezing more dots into the >same amount of space. > >On the other hand, if you reduce the resolution, you can have the >opposite effect and cause text to get bigger. If in the above >example, instead of increasing the resolution, you decreased instead. >Then each dot would take up 2 inches, and half as many could fit on >screen. The letter T is still 4 dots high, but now it appears on >screen as 8 inches high. > >Hopefully the above makes sense. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
