On 2019-09-11 9:30 a.m., Ken Springer wrote:
On 9/11/19 4:51 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Ken Springer
writes:
On 9/10/19 2:49 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Ken Springer
writes:
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When I look at a vertical straight line, this is what I see:

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More or less.Â* LOL
Â* Oh dear! I don't think _any_ monitor (or playing with resolutions)
will
fix that )-:. I can't see how glasses will, either, unless your
eyeballs
don't move, to preserve alignment.

Yep.Â* Nothing except a new eyeball will fix that.

_Could_ a _contact_ lens - or surgically attached one? In other words,
is the distortion in your lens, retina, or image processing brainware?

A contact lens would have to be oriented correctly when you put them in.
Â*Possibly new lenses, as you get with cataract surgery, but then what
do you do if you eyeball changes?Â* Thee surgery is quick, but it isn't
cheap.

I experimented with the options of increasing the text size by 125% or
150%.Â* Bit this does not change the size of the text in menus in the
windows.Â* And, if the situation is right, dialog boxes may have the
buttons you need to click on off the screen to the bottom, and you
can't get to them!
Â* The text size manipulations aren't great - and many softwares don't
honour them properly, so if you _do_ increase text size, they don't
enlarge the box it goes in, so you end up with either overlapping
letters, or text spilling out of the box )-:.

They're so crappy, why do they bother to keep them?

Good question. (By the way, when I was looking yesterday, this system
only offered 100% and 125%. No 150%.) Probably lethargy.

I noticed no 150% just recently, somewhere.Â* I wonder if that was a
laptop with a smaller screen.

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The really sad thing is, for everything in a window, it could be
adjusted and changed in XP and earlier.Â* But then they got rid of it.

If pressed, they'd probably say they removed those settings because some
people change them then don't remember how (or _that_) they did, and
think something's wrong. Rather like you could change various aspects of
the display (colours, widths, fonts ...) in Windows 95 - and still could
in '98, but had to press an "Advanced" button to get at them (-:.

That's a possibility I hadn't thought of.Â* End result is penalizing the
majority for just a few ignorant ones.

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This Pro-Art rotates 900
Or 8:5 (-:

Does it really display as 900 on your system?Â* I ask, because I used
the degree sign when I typed the message.

Yes. At least, I didn't amend the quoted text; I think it had been
amended by the time I got it, rather than my system, which can display
the ° sign OK. (That's the degree sign, in case it has been amended by
the time _you_ see it.)

It must have been amended, as your degree sign came through.

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(I use "[]" to mean the same thing.)
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I noticed.Â* LOL

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You can blame the movie people for the widescreen today, IMO.

Yes and no. As I said, widescreen isn't that great even for most movie
scenes, but (on the whole) we're stuck with it for movies - but its
introduction in the PC world was due to the belief that movie-viewing
was going to be a large part of what PCs were going to be used for,
which I dispute (even now, and certainly at the time of its
introduction). But any such discussion is pointless as we are where we
are. (And it's preferable to VVS!)

Long ago, I was reading movie trivia, and discovered there were various
aspect ratios to the new widescreen movies.Â* IIRC, one was 16:9.

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Teamviewer is installed on all my desktops, for the same use as you.
Then when they call, I don't have to go to a particular computer.

Have you had the false diagnosis of commercial use? (When I got it, I
looked into the pricing: it's such a good utility that I would have
considered it. But it's so high it really is only for the professional
user - especially as it's monthly rather than a one-off.)

Teamviewer screwed up, a bug in an update that erroneously mislabeled
the use.Â* I think this was exacerbated if you chose the combo
private/commercial option when you installed it.Â* All I had to do was
send an email to a specific email address, and my stuff was reset.

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Â* Most of those still don't seem to have got to grips with the
advantages
of flat screen; they have a space into which the monitor is placed,
still needing a stand and space all around, as if it was still a CRT
monitor with bulk. None of them seem to have it attached to the back
wall, let alone used lateral thinking and attached it as hinged _over_
some of the compartments thus allowing a bigger screen.

The newest, and biggest, cabinet is now 18 years old.Â* The other, at
least 10 years older.

Ah, so designed in the CRT era; fair enough. I assumed that the ones
(computer desks) on the page you gave me a link to were mostly new ones,
and I was surprised they all still showed the monitor as standing in one
of the boxes, rather than fixed thus wasting less space.

The older one, definitely.Â* Smaller widescreens may have been coming in
with the newer one, but I simply don't remember.



I don't know if I have mentioned this in this thread, but here is a very
useful utility to change individual font sizes.

https://www.wintools.info/index.php/...m-font-changer


BTW, my Windows 10 shows
100%
125%
150%
175%.

Rene