Has anyone solved this intractable problem?

On 11/17/2019 12:13 PM, John K.Eason wrote:
In article , lid (Char
Jackson) wrote:


Not under fluorescent light in a supermarket it won't, especially
if you've forgotten to take your reading glasses with you! :^)

In that situation, I either take a photo and zoom in to where I can
read it, or I just point the camera at it and read off the camera
display, which is already enlarged compared to the original.

That assumes you have a mobile phone! :^)


No, it means he has a digital camera with him. The camera could be part
of a mobile phone or it could be a separate device.

And since he said that's what he does, it's clear that he has such a
device (probably a mobile phone with a camera rather than a stand-alone
camera, since it's in a supermarket). No assumption is necessary.

And by the way, not all mobile phones have digital cameras built into them.

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Ken

In article , Ken Blake
wrote:

And by the way, not all mobile phones have digital cameras built into them.

these days, almost all do, and one of the key functions people look for
in a phone.

On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 19:14 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
(John K.Eason) wrote:

In article , lid (Char
Jackson) wrote:


Not under fluorescent light in a supermarket it won't, especially
if you've forgotten to take your reading glasses with you! :^)

In that situation, I either take a photo and zoom in to where I can
read it, or I just point the camera at it and read off the camera
display, which is already enlarged compared to the original.

That assumes you have a mobile phone! :^)

Don't most people carry a mobile phone? If someone has elected not to carry
one, perhaps they can carry a small digital camera that can serve the same
purpose described above. Obviously, a film camera would be difficult. ;-)

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sun, 17 Nov 2019 19:14 +0000 (GMT Standard
Time), (John K.Eason) wrote:

In article , lid (Char
Jackson) wrote:


Not under fluorescent light in a supermarket it won't, especially
if you've forgotten to take your reading glasses with you! :^)

If you don't have a mobile phone with you, where are you finding brown
on a black background?

In that situation, I either take a photo and zoom in to where I can
read it, or I just point the camera at it and read off the camera
display, which is already enlarged compared to the original.

That assumes you have a mobile phone! :^)

So the store provided it? Wow. In that case, I'd ask an employee to
read it for me, since it's their fault int he first place.


As to a phone, there are zoom apps that will, I think use the camera
app, but the result is a telephoto lens, and that really makes things
bigger.

In article , (Big Al) wrote:

I have however read that others are complaining about the lack of
contrast and readability in software and more specific web pages.

Not just relating to computers! Some ready-meal cooking instructions (at least in
the UK) use white text on a yellow background in a font so small that it would be
almost unreadable even if the text was black!

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In article ,
(micky) wrote:

Often Ctrl-A will make things readable, but not always.

Not under fluorescent light in a supermarket it won't, especially if you've
forgotten to take your reading glasses with you! :^)

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John ) Remove the obvious to reply...

In article , lid (Char
Jackson) wrote:


Not under fluorescent light in a supermarket it won't, especially
if you've forgotten to take your reading glasses with you! :^)

In that situation, I either take a photo and zoom in to where I can
read it, or I just point the camera at it and read off the camera
display, which is already enlarged compared to the original.

That assumes you have a mobile phone! :^)

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Regards
John ) Remove the obvious to reply...