Shag is essentially correct. I have software that will read the text aloud; I also have software that will convert PDF to Word. But both of these processes are clumsy. And as my eyes get worse, I read less and less. Hence I go to the necessary trouble only one texts I consider of great importance. If posts are complex or lengthy, to read them I need to go through several stages to get them in a Word file that is _somewhat_ easier to read. There's a basic contradiction in expanding fonts. The larger you make them, the less that shows on the screen.
Carrol
On 6/13/2011 7:48 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> At 03:53 PM 6/13/2011, Dissenting Wren wrote:
>> Heh!  So that's a "no thanks" on the offer of an electronic offprint, 
>> eh?
>
> I don't think so since, last I knew, Carrol had to jack up the font 
> size to 72 px or something in order to actually read. He has a hard 
> time reading Web sites and PDFs because, when you jack up the sizes of 
> the font, the layout becomes really distorted. Email is better 
> because, with plain text you can increase the size without the layout 
> issues.
>
> shag
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