MacBook Pro :: How To Change The Text Size / DPI
Jun 30, 2009
The stock 1920x1200 resolution is really amazing except it makes it extremely hard to read anything due to the very very small text size.
Is there anyway to keep the 1920 x 1200 resoltuion while increasing the size of icons/text?
I know you can do this in Windows 7, but does leopard have an option?
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Dec 8, 2014
I am getting on in years and it is harder to read the text in the menu bar. Is it possible to change the size of the text in the menu bar ?
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Jul 2, 2012
Mac screen resolution is getting higher and higher, which is nice, but the downside is that we seem to have lost "what you see is what you get." I have set the default document size of Text-Edit to about the size of an 8 1/2 x 11 document, which fits easily on the screen. I have what appears to be a single page of text. It all easily fits in the document window. The headline fits across the width of the page. But when I choose Print, the print preview shows that the text is going to spill out onto two sheets of paper.  I exit out of the print document and reduce the text size so that it all prints out on one sheet of paper. The problem is, the size of the text onscreen is now TINY! It looks like it's about 6 point while the printed text looks like it's about 12 point! No WYSIWYG!  When I revert the document to the way it was originally, where it was going to print out on two sheets of paper, and then hold my printed document up next to the screen, the printed size matches the onscreen size almost perfectly, even though, if printed out at this size, the text would spill out onto two pages and be huge. In other words, 18 point size text prints out at about 12 points and 12 pt text prints out at about 6pts, so there's about a 6pt difference in how text looks onscreen and how it prints out. Again, No WYSIWYG! My older Macs had much lower-resolution screens, but text printed out at about the same apparent size on screen. I know the original Macs had 72dpi screens so that they would closely match the printed size of text, and I like the fact that monitors keep getting better, but is there a way around this problem of printed text not matching the size of onscreen text?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Dec 1, 2014
how do I make the size of all texts bigger on the screen, I have an early 2014 11" macbook air upgraded to yosemite 10.10
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MacBook Air, Other OS, works great, in good shape
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Jul 7, 2010
Macbook Pro 17" Text size issue with High Resolution screen. Just got a Macbook Pro 17 that I love except for one thing - text size on many programs. I understand the reason for it and I did not want a 15 inch as I tend to work with multiple programs at once. I am not tied to an office so that rules out buying an external screen, So I have been trying to find solutions that makes working with in different programs less of a strain on my eyes. Here are some of the workarounds I have found to programs I use and programs that I have had no luck with. And please it is not a problem with eyesight as this seems to be a common problem for many owners. I like to sit well back from my screen not 2 inches away! Address Book Set the font size to large in preferences
Mail. This is the big one. It is easy to set the default font to a larger size and that helps with incoming mail. Or you can add a small/larger button with the customize toolbar option but there is no fix for outgoing mail. I write a lot of mail so by the end of the day I am squinting and I do not want to send all my mail in jumbo text. Here is the only fix that I found that I like. In terminal (in utilities) put in the following......................
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Oct 21, 2009
I changed my partition size firstly from (full disk size) about 160GB to 80GBs in order to create a new one which was another 80GBs after that I decided to just leave this 160GB and one partition, so I did what I decided, but now there is a problem. I did everything under Installation CD and than it shows in Disk Tool that the partition is 160GB on diagrams but under it it shows: total size 80GB... and the same is when I launching Snow Leopard. I'm clicking Macintosh HD and informations than it shows total size: 80GB, I tried to change again partition sizes but it does nothing, I cannot do anything under Mac OS and bootable installation disc. I'm completely stuck it shows, always and always that "Spliting in to partitions finished due an error - could not modficate partition's map".
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Sep 12, 2009
In my old age it is getting hard for me to read text on the screen. Is there a way to incress the text size in firefox (and in snow leopard in general) and have it be a forever change? Forever, I have been pushing cmd+ to make it bigger...but it is getting to be a pain to do that every time.
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Oct 24, 2008
I want to change icon size with 2 fingers.(Pinche) But new MacBook won't change. On MacBookPro, we can change Icons with Pinche.
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Feb 13, 2012
How do change the size of the icon on my desktop?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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May 10, 2012
I am struggling to see the fonts on icons & Safari. How do I change the size?
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Jun 2, 2012
I have been able to change my font size in the mail program, but I have not found a way to make the left side that has the list of Mailbox names larger and easy to read, I have a long list of email addresses. The mail is in the older mode of mac mail.
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iBook, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
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Mar 10, 2009
Does anyone feel like the default text size in all applications is too small when your imac is set at it's best resolution?? I really hate to compromise some of the display quality by decreasing the resolution, but everything seems so small!!! I really hoped on a nice big screen i could look at things larger than I could on my laptop!! Is there anything I can do about this? I am new to Mac, so maybe I am just missing something.
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Nov 10, 2009
New to Imac and love it so far. My only issue is that when I open firefox, the text is tiny and I can't seem to modify it. I've played around with fonts under preferences>content but that doesn't help. So far I have to manually hit commant and the + sign to get the text bigger.
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May 7, 2012
My spouse has eye sight issues resulting from Multiple Sclerosis. Can the safari toolbar text be increased for those who have some difficulty seeing.Â
The ability to increase the file, edit, url box, etc.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jun 14, 2012
I don't want to change the screen resolution, I know how to zoom, I just can't read the tiny font on my giant screen in the menu bars!
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jul 3, 2012
everything we open on our desk top is very large.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Jul 1, 2014
How do I make the text in iTunes a lot larger?
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Jun 16, 2012
Why doesn't iweb allow me to change the size of my page. i have gone onto the inspector, clicked on 'layout' and typed in the figures in the 'content height' bar and pressed return but no changes. what has happened?
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Nov 11, 2010
How Do I get the mac minis dock and text size back to normal. I used it this afternoon and now tonight the size is huge and I nor the person who used it after me says he changed the size. I hate this jumbo sized text. I want the default size back.
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Nov 13, 2010
I'm trying to use Safari on Windows again now that a smooth scroll extension has finally been released. However, I have now encountered another problem and was hoping someone could point me to the relevant option or checkbox to make this work. I like to make the text size on different websites different sizes using Ctrl & +. That works fine. However, unlike Firefox, IE and Chrome, Safari keeps forgetting my text size preferences, so when I close it and then re-open it, every website where I've altered the text size has gone back to the default text size. Is someone able to tell me how to get Safari to remember these text size preferences?
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Jun 4, 2009
I have an access log that I need to read and it is 3GB in size. Any application that can read that? Maybe Hex Edit.
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Mar 27, 2012
I had problems with my Apple Mail crashing and the only fix we could try after spending quite a long time on searching for the proble was to delete all my accounts and re-introduce them one at a time. But I didn't realise that would delete all my preferences and signatures
So I am having to start from fresh. I can get my text for message subject lines and the mailboxes to the size I want BUT if i have digests from groups the text is still tiny. I know I can enlarge using cmd+ but I have to do that for each message. But I can;t find the preferences
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MBP 17, Mac OS X (10.7.2), Buffalo 1TB EHD iPad original 16gb
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Sep 8, 2007
Is there a way to increase the system font size and change font type on my Macbook?
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Apr 25, 2010
I have a new macbook pro. Scrolling, i.e. 2-finger, on the trackpad often, but randomly, results in font size changes (e.g. in Safari, mail, etc.); in word and powerpoint it often changes a word or paragraph to subscript or superscript. This also happens often with cursor movement on the trackpad, i.e. single finger sweeps. It appears that trackpad usage is randomly triggering command+ or command-.
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Apr 19, 2012
When I minimize my open internet pages they are really small on the desktop. They were a decent size at first but now they're tiny. Is there a way to make them bigger?
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MacBook Pro
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May 10, 2012
Since installing SL I can no longer change the size of my background photos to fit the screen in the desktop system preferences window
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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May 13, 2012
Just bought a new 27" screen iMac. The menu bar and drop down menu text is much to small for me to see without leaning close to the screen. how to customize the text to a larger size. This is an issue for any program I open.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jun 5, 2014
how to increase text size in out going mail.
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iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
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Sep 6, 2014
Is is possible to enlarge the text in the headings in the Desktop menu bar or use large icons, I can't find it mentioned in the 'System Preferences'.Â
Also my magic mouse will not zoom when holding down the control key and scrolling with one finger as per the booklet that came with the iMac. .
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iMac
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Apr 11, 2012
How do I change processor default from Pages back to Text Edit ??
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Intel core i5 2.3GHz
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