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Reversing Your View

Reversing Your View — In TidBITS-403 and TidBITS-405, we noted the Mac’s "paper" approach of displaying black text on a white background can be difficult on the eyes; several readers pointed out Apple’s CloseView control panel can reverse your screen’s display (and zoom in as far as 16x for those with vision difficulties). Although no longer part of the standard Mac OS installation, CloseView is available online from Apple’s Disability Connection (along with Easy Access and MouseKeys for PowerBook) and in Mac OS 8’s custom installation options. CloseView has several known problems: it’s incompatible with some mainstream applications and QuickDraw GX, plus it can have problems in low memory situations, on multiple monitor configurations, and on monitors displaying more than 256 colors. However, for many folks, it’s exactly the (free!) solution they need. [JLC]

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