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

[Laine Amoureux]

I also had a similar situation.
Our solution was to use magic.
We disabled multi-monitor support, and the primary monitor would be magnified, with all visual enhancements enabled… And the secondary monitor would have no visual enhancements, or magnification… It worked out pretty good for her


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> On Jan 29, 2014, at 1:45 PM, Jan Brandt <djsabrandt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
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