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Softpedia Editor's Review for Virtual Magnifying Glass Portable
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A free, open source, portable screen magnification tool
Written by Elena Opris on February 15th, 2013
As its name implies, Virtual Magnifying Glass Portable is a tool that allows you to use a virtual magnifying glass, in order to better enhance certain areas of the screen. It comes with several customization features.
Since this is a portable piece of software, installing Virtual Magnifying Glass is not necessary. It means that you can store the app on a USB flash drive or any other storage device and directly run its executable file on any computer.
Therefore, you can carry Virtual Magnifying Glass Portable with you whenever you're on the move. What's more important is that the Windows Registry does not receive new entries, and no leftover files can be found on the hard drive after program removal.
Once initialized, the program places an icon in the system tray area. Clicking it activates the magnifying glass in classic view mode, but you can also switch to dynamic view.
The tool's settings allow you to change the height and width of the lens (in pixels), increase or decrease the magnification level, display graphical details and borders on the lens, invert colors and enable anti-aliasing. Furthermore, you can make Virtual Magnifying Glass automatically run at system startup, as well as change the default keyboard shortcuts. All settings can be saved with the new values as default.
Virtual Magnifying Glass supports multiple languages for the interface, includes user documentation and worked smoothly during our testing. We have not come across any problems, since the app did not freeze, crash or pop up error dialogs.
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Virtual Magnifying Glass Portable description
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Here are some key features of "Virtual Magnifying Glass Portable":
· Display current magnification factor
· Invert colors
· Show the center pixel's RGB values, in both decimal and hexadecimal.
· New user setting: borderless magnifier window (can help performance with older video boards)
· Multi-monitor support
· Lens height up to 1024 pixels
· Lens width up to 1600 pixels
· Mouse scroll-wheel now controls zoom factor
· Esc key closes magnifier window
· Crosshairs now have tickmarks for scale factors at 4x and above
· 1x scale factor: allows to user to quickly compare a magnifier image with the original
· 1.5x scale factor: helps with screen reading
· Added 3x scale factor
· Hotkey shows/hides the magnifier (currently hardcoded to CTRL-ALT-e)
Requirements:
· 800x600 or higher screen resolution and at least 16-bit colors recommended
· A good display adapter and CPU recommended for smooth performance
· Multiple-display systems are supported on Windows 98/ME, Windows NT4/2000/XP
· On multiple-display systems, the magnifying glass may not display at the correct location if the monitors have a vertical offset between them
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Experimental Dynamic Mode added
· Show the center pixel's RGB values, in both decimal and hexadecimal.
· Multi-monitor support
· Lens height and width can have any size
· Mouse scroll-wheel now controls zoom factor
· Esc key closes magnifier window, but it remains on systray. Q key closes the software
· Crosshairs now have tickmarks for scale factors at 4x and above
· Variable scale factor from 1x to 32x in
· New configuration dialog to choose the plugin, Hotkey and other settings
· A list of which features are currently available on the Linux version can be found on the README file distributed with it.
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