Accessibility tool for artists!
I just found out a cool trick. Everyone knows Gnopernicus, the Gnome desktop accessibility do-it-all-tool that has the weirdest name ever. Anyway, it, among other things, contains a screen magnifier for visually impaired users.
By default it starts with the right half of the screen magnifying everything on the left, but you can actually configure it: I made it a small 200×200 pixel square on top right at first, it works nicely for previewing pixel-level details on icons design work. It follows your mouse cursor, so it suits totally great for the task.
It even has an option to use a dualhead setup so that the magnification goes to the other screen. Pretty cool. The above picture shows Inkscape on the left monitor, while there is a 8x magnified view of the icon being worked on on the right monitor. Hopefully this is an useful trick for some of the artists 
It’s a nice magnifying glass when needed..
I wonder if the author ever imagined this kind of use for the software…
October 28th, 2005 at 06:24
[…] Today, Tuomas figured out that gnopernicus, an odd-sounding, useful accessibility tool for GNOME, can be super-useful for artists, especially those using Inkscape. […]
October 28th, 2005 at 19:52
tigert has a nice blog entry about using Gnopernicus as an aid in graphic design.