Re: [orca-list] Magnifier

[<timothyhobbs seznam cz>]

I'll just repost a message that I sent previously to the list:

Magnification works great on gnome3.  I use it every day.  It's built
in.  You can enable it by clicking on the little man in the circle at
the top of the screen.  There is also a setting to make text larger,
this does not work OK.  Unfortunately some applications don't know how
to deal with large text on small displays, and they become too big to
fit on the screen.  But the magnifier works great.  You can set up
hotkeys to increase/decrease the magnification level.  Or you can use a
tool like https://github.com/timthelion/gnome-shell-zoom-control-window/wiki to be able to control the magnification level by pressing buttons on the screen.

I
 like to use magnification with my tablet.  That lets me move the pen
across the display and in doing so move the magnifier view.

If
you don't like gnome's magnifier for some reason(for example, you wish
to use a different window manager than gnome, you can use http://magnifier.sourceforge.net/#gettingstarted
 or xzoom.  I've tried the former, but not the latter(I've tried xzoom now, and it also works well, but is a bit more blocky/pixelated then the gnome3 one).  The former is
quite good, though it's a "software magnifier" and not a "hardware
magnifier" there is a slight difference in both speed/smoothness of
magnification and behaviour.  The gnome magnifier can magnify the whole
screen at once, and you then move around by panning, while the software
one can only place a little window over the screen and magnify one
portion of the screen at a time.

Now that I looked, it seems KDE too has a magnifying glass.

One
 thing I'd have to say, is it's almost always better to use some kind of
 larger text, then to use a magnifier.  This is because it renders more
crisply...  Be aware of http://www.labnol.org/software/browsers/resize-text-in-firefox-3-without-changing-the-size-of-images/2775/
 ...  Unfortunately as web pages get "more intelligent" they also get
less and less accessible.  Every day, more and more web sites are
impossible to just zoom in, due to an over-abundance of fixed width
columns.   One thing, you might try, is Opera's view to view a web page
like a mobile web browser would.  This tells the web page to be less
intelligent and less collumy, and can help  to make the content resize
better.  I personally don't use this though, as I find that many web
pages using _javascript_ lose their functionality in that mode.

---------- PÅvodnà zprÃva ----------
Od: Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <texou actux eu org>
Datum: 17. 5. 2012
PÅedmÄt: [orca-list] Magnifier

> Hi,
>
> I've just tested a recent release of orca, and done some Searches, and I
> believe that magnifier on orca has disappeared. Could you confirm? No
> longer magnification possible on orca? Does an alternate exist, as
> powerful as orca tools? How can we run it easily in a GUI?
>
> Another question (sorry, out of subject): how do you shut down the
> computer with gnome3 and orca?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Best regards,
>
>
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