Your livelyhood depends on this and nothing's working? Oh dear, perhaps its time to try something else, howabout selling jellybeans or something like that.
On 26 Dec 2013, at 10:27 pm, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > I’m not quite sure whether I tried that or not, to tell you the truth. I’ve > tried so many darn ways to get this thing to work that I’m about out of > options and, I’m sorry to say, out of patience. I just want something which > works and, were it not for the fact that I do Braille transcription > professionally now, so my livelihood depends upon it, I wouldn’t be using > Office at all. > > Be that as it may, I need to produce some large print versions of the books > I’m working on for my boss. We can get the text blown up just fine. But the > images don’t get enlarged and it looks really bad so says Lynne and so says > my boss. My boss, Jill, knows it isn’t my fault that it’s like it is. But > nobody else at work has s clue in terms of anything over and beyond their > day-to-day work and that’s why I am employed where I am. > > Anyway, to get back to the point. Lynne says she’s tried this but the > problem is as I say, the text is scaled up but not the boxes which contain > pictures to illustrate the stories in the books. To have double-sized text > but small pictures looks apparently really odd and it doesn’t help those > children whose vision impairment is sufficient to allow them access to large > print, but not small pictures as well. > > The picture illustrations are important as a teaching aid, as it helps the > children to remember details about the stories we are trying to get them to > learn from. > > Actually this brings up another topic but not for this group. I’m going to > be starting a thread on education, the way it is delivered. I have to admit > that I’ve changed my views on this subject since I began working with young > children directly. it took ages for my DBS check to come through but now it > has and in the second half of last term I learned a lot. > > Anyway, to answer your question, yes, we have tried that. But apparently > although we can import the pictures, that doesn’t help to enlarge them. If > we enlarge the text, that’s fine. But the pictures themselves don’t get > blown up as well. > > I can’t quite fathom that one, I must admit. I would have thought that, if > you blow up an entire image to double size, then the entire image, including > the pictures, should get blown up as well. I’ll try this one again but at > the moment I’m not hopeful. > > Kind regards > > <--- Gordon Smith ---> > > <[email protected]> > > Information Technology Accessibility Consultant; > Providing Help & Support To Young People LivingWith Visual Impairment, plus > Braille Transcription services. > > On 15 Dec 2013, at 02:31, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Have you tried the Insert Picture option from the ribbon? > > This is just a hunch, I bought Office Professional 2010 though I don't know > why I bothered, it works well and I've nothing against the product whatever > but I just don't use the thing. > > > ======================================= > > To post to this group, please send your message to: > [email protected] > The Windows-Access E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus > and worm-free > > To modify your subscription options, please visit your personalise subscriber > options page, located at > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/windows-access > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Windows-Access forum at > either of the following websites: > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/windows-access/index.html > Or: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> > > you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > --------------------------------------- > > > [email protected] ********** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 ======================================= To post to this group, please send your message to: [email protected] The Windows-Access E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit your personalise subscriber options page, located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/windows-access You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Windows-Access forum at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/windows-access/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> --------------------------------------- [email protected]
