[bksvol-discuss] Re: The Case of the Puny font, Please help!
- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 23:36:27 -0400
Dear Jamie,
I'm amazed that you are accomplishing so much in under a week since your neck
surgery, Jamie. Your doctors are either going to give you a medal for your
endurance, stoicism, and quick recovery as you manage to scan books from bed
in a neck brace and in pain, or they're going to put you in restraints to force
you to rest!
You haven't been to a library to pick up books for over a week, have you? That
has to be a record. When you get well and are able to drive yourself there
again, you're going to need a trolley to get all of the books that have piled
up back to your car. Does your son have a wagon? I suggest you call ahead on
your cell phone so he'll be in the driveway to meet you and help you load up
the wagon and trundle the books in to the house.
One more thing. Has your husband said anything like, "How come you can scan
stacks of books but you can't cook supper, wash dishes, do laundry and scrub
floors?" Knowing you, you probably duped your doctor into writing a medical
excuse that specifies, "patient may scan books but is not to attempt any form
of housework for 6 weeks."
Now, Booksharians, the part about Jamie recovering from painful neck surgery is
true and in my opinion get well wishes don't count as extraneous messages
clogging the list!
On to topic. Thank you, Jamie, for the good advice which has taught me a few
more things about what my computer can do.
Today, again inexplicably, the cursor on my computer in Microsoft word and the
size of the print returned to normal by itself. A friend says Windows does
an update every Tuesday and this may be why I sometimes find settings changed.
For example, today, when I entered on Internet Explorer, Google came up as my
home page instead of EarthLink. Maybe it was the Tuesday update which brought
my print and cursor back to normal and gave me a new home page.
So, though I'm comfortable with the standard size print since I'm relying on
JAWS, I went to the zoom in the view menu, as Jamie advised, and checked 200%.
It had been marked at 100%. Jamie, that did give me some very nice big print
which, though enlarged, didn't occupy more page size and for a change I
understand why.
Print reading is so tedious, that having it larger doesn't tempt me to see my
screen instead of hearing it, but there are so many levels of useful and
useless vision in legal blindness that many partially sighted Bookshare
subscribers may find it a great help to mark the 200% radial button on the zoom
page on the View menu. anyone out there who would like to see fonts better
without as a default having to bump up their size to the 20s 30s and 40s, for
each document, ought to give this easy to access feature a try.
Always with love,
Lissi
----- Original Message -----
From: Jamie Yates
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 1:39 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: The Case of the Puny font, Please help!
Lissi, if you try:
Alt-V (for the view menu)
Z (for zoom)
Mine shows with 200% already checked, which is the first "radio button"
If yours shows 200% already checked, you could tab to ok and press enter.
If not, you could tab to 200% (or use your up and down arrow keys) and then
tab to ok and press enter
If that does not help,
Alt-V again for the view menu
And choose N for normal, or try choosing P for the print layout.
Print layout sometimes makes it appear bigger on your screen, but sometimes
normal does too.
Hope that helps.
Estelnalissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear Booksharian Friends,
For no reason I can fathom, Microsoft word, office 2003 on my Dell computer
using JAWS 8.0 and Windows XP, displays teeny letters when I write in new
documents. When I just unzipped a book to validate the letters looked like
black sand, to my eyes, not at all like letters. The writing is so tiny most
paragraphs are under a line long. The text font sizes I use most often when
validating are 10,, 12 or 14 except for chapter headings which and titles which
may range between 18 and 26. To see the letters at all, I have to alt o, enter
font and make it at least 40. Then each page is about 4 pages long. The
computer thinks the size 40 font is taking up lots of room, but it looks
visually like 12 or 14.
I don't care what the size of the font is to do my validating. I rely on
JAWS with all of the punctuation being spoken, to validate. I just worry, if I
leave the font as it appears, if the words will be completely visually
unreadable.
Also when I print out a document I've just made as in writing a letter. The
page comes out of the printer looking blank to me.
Since the size of the print looks vastly different from the size it says it
is on the font part of the options menu, I don't know what to do. Also the
cursor which I rarely try to find visually, has gone completely invisible to
me, now. Before, with patience and using 7 on the num pad to put it at the
beginning of the line, I could find it visually. Now, it's too small for me to
see at all.
I was guessing when I told you I have Windows XP. I forgot how to ask the
computer to tell me what version of windows I have.
I have wondered if I did something to make the computer think I want
microscopic print to be the default, but I don't know how to change a default
for print or cursor size in Word.
This next observation isn't really relevant to my volunteer work for
Bookshare. I'm mentioning it just in case any of you has a suggestion. For
weeks at a time, the size of everything at the sites I visit on the internet is
quite small for me to see which I don't mind since JAWS manages to read it
quite well most of the time. Then, again for reasons I don't understand, the
size of the print becomes giant and stays that way for weeks until for unknown
reasons I don't understand. I can see the huge print, but it's tedious for me
and I would never make the print big on purpose. Jaws navigates and reads much
more reliably with small print and when Jaws is happy, so am I. Only small
parts of a page are on my screen when the print goes giant, but here too, I
don't know how to ask the computer to display everything in a default that will
make everything appear the standard size sighted people can see and JAWS
obviously prefers.
I'll appreciate any help you can offer. I was making great progress in
Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul, a book I'm really enjoying validating, Only
being able to validate 5 books at a time feels restrictive to me, but it has
had the very desirable effect on me that I'm taking on and finishing the
longer, more complicated validations in a much timelier way.
Thank you in advance.
Always with love,
Lissi
Jamie in Michigan
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