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The built-in magnifier to Mac OS is really really nice for my awful vision. However, I find that it is suboptimal when I have more than one screen. I would like to be zoomed in on my main monitor while remaining zoomed out on my laptop monitor, keeping track of my mail, watching a full screen movie or something like that. Unfortunately, when I zoom in, it zooms BOTH screens in, an annoyance.
So...
- Is there a way to zoom each screen independently? I don't think there's an official way, but unofficial hacks are welcome too.
- Failing that, is there a magnification program that only zooms in a small window surrounding the mouse, leaving the rest of the screen regularly sized? I think I found one program a while back, but the name escapes me and it cost cash money. If I have that, I sidestep the problem entirely.
What happened to pixie? I can't find it now :( – occulus – 2012-04-12T14:55:58.720
@occulus The Graphics Tools, including Pixie and Quartz Composer, are now available as a separate package from http://developer.apple.com.
– jtbandes – 2012-04-12T19:23:24.800Log in, go to https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action and search for
– gak – 2013-04-26T02:39:14.153pixie
.This is really cool, but unfortunately it's too much like XP's and Vista's brain damaged magnifier with the whole 'separate unmoving window' paradigm. I was looking for something more along the lines of Windows 7's magnifier in Lens (not Fullscreen) mode.
Thanks, though. – AlexMax – 2009-12-01T17:11:35.500