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

[Michael Barber]

Jan:  Thanks so much for this.  I am planning to go to her work site tomorrow and will take this info with me.

Cordially,
Michael D. Barber

> On Jan 29, 2014, at 2:45 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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