From: Dow Hurst DPHURST (DPHURST_at_uncg.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 01 2006 - 09:12:20 CDT

John,
We have a visually impaired user who strains to read the fonts on the
menus. Is there a way to control the VMD menu font sizes for all parts of
the menus? I need really large bold fonts for her to easily see the
screen. I've used mouseloupe software on Linux to do what ZoomText does on
Windows. However, accelerated graphical software like VMD, Schrodinger's
Maestro, or on Windows the program Powerpoint, seem to not play nice with
the required Composite extension to predisplay an enlarged portion of the
screen. I don't know how Windows does the Composite functionality but the
effect is identical between Linux and Windows. If the ZoomText or
mouseloupe magnifier hits a portion of the accelerated window, the
accelerated window becomes blank with a black background. So, what works
best for visually impaired users is to have the application enlarge the
fonts for text and menu items. What do you think? The user has albinism
so has color requirements too. Changing the font size and color would be
optimal. A letter that is about a quarter of an inch high and bold is what
I see her using a lot. We have two 17inch LCD monitors with the Nvidia
TwinView for her right now on SUSE9.3 with the Quadro FX1400 Nvidia card.
Dow