Hi,
High-resolution screens do look great for viewing photos, watching movies, or working on editing software. But for general purpose stuff like browsing, reading emails and navigation your eyes will hurt.
You cannot change the system wide font size like you can do it easily under Widnows:
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Apple suggested changing the resolution-which made things slightly blurred and the screen more difficult to work with and also the universal access, which I didn't care for either.
That is the problem with these ultra resolution screens!
I did not yet check the Tinkertool (the version which works with Lion is not free anymore).
But the terminal command for changing the value for AppleDisplayScaleFactor for a single application was the best solution in my case (My biggest issue with the small fonts was the mail programs.):
Single application scaling
defaults write com.microsoft.Outlook AppleDisplayScaleFactor 1.25
Global scaling
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleDisplayScaleFactor 1.25
Unfortunately Lion doesn’t support this command any more.
Does anybody know how can I bring it to work under Lion?
Thanks
High-resolution screens do look great for viewing photos, watching movies, or working on editing software. But for general purpose stuff like browsing, reading emails and navigation your eyes will hurt.
You cannot change the system wide font size like you can do it easily under Widnows:

Apple suggested changing the resolution-which made things slightly blurred and the screen more difficult to work with and also the universal access, which I didn't care for either.
That is the problem with these ultra resolution screens!
I did not yet check the Tinkertool (the version which works with Lion is not free anymore).
But the terminal command for changing the value for AppleDisplayScaleFactor for a single application was the best solution in my case (My biggest issue with the small fonts was the mail programs.):
Single application scaling
defaults write com.microsoft.Outlook AppleDisplayScaleFactor 1.25
Global scaling
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleDisplayScaleFactor 1.25
Unfortunately Lion doesn’t support this command any more.
Does anybody know how can I bring it to work under Lion?
Thanks
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