[Trainer-talk] Duel Screen Support with either Magic 12 or Zoomtext

[Jan Brandt]

Hi Michael,



It is my understanding that Dual Monitor Support with ZoomText and MAGic
are different.  With ZoomText, you can use two monitors that span the one
screen, similar to having half a picture on the left screen and the other
half on the right screen.  In today's world, I think it would be simpler to
get a good sized (26 inch, 32 inch) LED television for a monitor if you
were to use this set-up.  The second option in ZoomText is Primary Clone,
which displays the same magnified view on your primary and secondary
monitors. This mode is useful when two or more users need to see the same
magnified view, but are not seated so that they can share a single monitor.
The last option for dual monitor with ZoomText is Primary with 1x,
which displays a magnified view on your primary monitor and an unmagnified
view on your secondary monitor.  However, both monitors show the same
content.  This mode is useful when a low vision user and normal-sighted
user are working together on the same system. The low vision user can zoom
in to the desired level (on the primary monitor) while the normal-sighted
user sees the unmagnified view on the secondary monitor.  You can't have
one window on one monitor and another window on the second monitor.



With MAGic, I don't believe you can have separate magnification levels,
even though you can have two different windows open, one on each
monitor.  Independent
mode will simultaneously magnify and run two different applications on two
different monitors.  Overview mode will allow the user to view the same
desktop on two monitors where one is magnified and the other is not.



I had the situation you describe awhile back, and the only way I could
figure out how to make it work was to use two PC's with the two monitors
side by side.  Best of luck with this.



Jan