Lunar Screen Magnifier

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See Microsoft Windows more Clearly

Lunar Screen Magnifier works with Windows and Windows applications, including word processing, spreadsheets, the Internet and email. It allows you to continue working with the computer in exactly the same way and is therefore highly practical for both office and home situations. Lunar Screen Magnifier's advanced technology means that even on high magnification, text and images remain smooth, clear and easily readable. Further clarification of activity on-screen is available thanks to strong, high contrast colors. Simply choose what works best for you.

Key Benefits:

• Reduce eye strain and increase the magnification during the day as your eyes become tired or to suit levels of visual impairment.
• Choice of magnification style with many options such as split screen, whole screen, lens and window so you can set it up to suit you.
• Highly magnified objects and text are smoothed to remove pixilation and preserve readability.
• Provides magnification from the point of login on the PC so you can see detail from startup.
• Multiple focus highlighting options - for clearer identification of cursor, mouse pointer, line, focus.
• Always stay in focus with Lunar’s automatic tracking of the mouse and keyboard presses.
• Create specific settings for certain applications and save them to use again.
• True multi language support, switch interface to choice of over 20 languages at any time.
• Automatic software updates via the Internet ensure you always use the latest version.
• Compatible with a range of digital CCTVs such as Optelec, Clearnote & LVI MLS Student.
• Runs on many operating systems and can be installed in a Network environment.
• Choose from high contrast color schemes or build your own to meet your sight requirements and replace problem colors.
• Smooth scrolling when moving around the screen and down long documents, avoids screen jitter.
• Intuitive hot keys for easy keyboard operation and an easy to use point and click interface.
• Choice of control panel for accessing features and functions provides ease of use and requires minimal training.

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Included in version 9.02 are host of small improvements and fixes, specifically designed to enhance the version 9 user experience:

• Version 9.02 now detects when your computer wakes up from power state changes (for example when the computer is woken up from its sleep setting), allowing you to continue working without having to restart Lunar.
• Updates to your version 9 solution should be seamless due to advancements within the inbuilt Internet Updater.
• Plus, a host of fixes and other small improvements have been developed to provide access to your favourite applications.
• New Dolphin List Utility available.

Key Benefits:

• Includes supporting output to speech which can read documents, web pages, menus and button prompts and talk as you type.
• Access complex websites with ease by choosing to list links, headings or frames.
• Reduce eye strain and increase the magnification during the day as your eyes become tired or to suit levels of visual impairment.
• Choice of magnification style with many options such as split screen, whole screen, lens and window so you can set it up to suit you.
• Highly magnified objects and text are smoothed to remove pixilation and preserve readability.
• Provides magnification from the point of login on the PC so you can see detail from startup.
• Multiple focus highlighting options - for clearer identification of cursor, mouse pointer, line, focus.
• Always stay in focus with Lunar’s automatic tracking of the mouse and keyboard presses.
• Create specific settings for certain applications and save them to use again.
• True multi language support, choice of over 20 languages and different synthesizer languages included.
• Automatic software updates via the Internet ensure you always use the latest version.
• Compatible with a range of digital CCTVs such as Optelec, Clearnote & LVI MLS Student.
• Runs on many operating systems and can be installed in a Network environment.
• Choose from high contrast color schemes or build your own to meet your sight requirements and replace problem colors.
• Smooth scrolling when moving around the screen and down long documents, avoids screen jitter.
• Intuitive hot keys for easy keyboard operation and an easy to use point and click interface.
• DocReader for easier viewing of long documents.

The Lunar and LunarPlus control panel makes all of the most common controls easy to find and more advanced features no more than two mouse clicks or key presses away. There are three choices of control panel – full view mode, menu mode or from the system tray so whether you are a new or experienced computer user, or whatever your level of sight, you can find a style that suits your needs.

At the office or at home, for business or pleasure, Lunar enables you to work with the latest information technology in the same way as friends and colleagues.

Integrated system
Lunar and LunarPlus are stable and reliable, whether in use on a home PC or network server. Installed on a network or a server, Lunar and LunarPlus Screen Magnifiers can be used at any terminal and can simply be switched on or off as required.

Designed for reliability
Lunar and LunarPlus are designed to meet the ever changing needs of today's IT environment. Lunar does not alter either the operating system or application software in any way. This makes it stable and reliable, whether installed on a home PC or business network server. It also ensures that your computer and software will remain compatible with those around you, keeping your lines of communication wide open. 

Magnification -
• Increase the size of everything on screen from 1.2 up to 32 times.
• Fractional magnification allows users to select magnification levels below 2 times in small increments such as 1.2x, 1.33x, 1.5x and 1.8x.
• Magnified text is smooth and clear in any color.
• Choose from 20 high contrast color schemes or build your own.
• Replace problem colors anywhere on screen.
• Choice of high visibility mouse pointers.
• Smooth scrolling for browsing long documents.
• Choice of high visibility mouse pointers.
• Smooth scrolling for browsing long documents.
• Choice of screen magnification styles: whole screen; split screen; window; lens; auto lens; hooked areas.
• Set up the screen exactly according to your requirements or swap easily between screen views.
• Find your way through complex web pages with a list of links, headings or frames.
• Internet Updater for fast, automatic updates.
• Comprehensive online and context sensitive help.
• Intuitive hotkeys for easy operation.
• Reads out screen text including documents, menus, web pages, and emails.
• Talks as you type, by characters, by word or both.
• Document Read highlights each word as spoken.
• Choice of software speech synthesizers including Dolphin Orpheus (multilingual) and Microsoft Text-to-Speech.
• Orpheus' intelligent pronunciation recognizes similar words by context.
  recognizes Choice of nine Orpheus voices or create your own.
• Choice of Orpheus languages, including: English (UK) and USA), Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish (Latin and Castilian) and Swedish. New languages are being added.
• Compatible with many other hardware and software synthesizers.

The hardware requirements shown below are to be used as guidelines only. The actual performance of your PC will vary according to the application software, memory, sound and video hardware that you use.

The computer equipment you intend to use needs to conform to the Microsoft hardware compatibility list for the operating system you intend to use. The Microsoft Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) for Windows Vista can be located at http://winqual.microsoft.com/HCL

The recommended Vista PC specification for Lunar/LunarPlus version 8 is:

• Processor - Intel® Core 2 Duo™ 2.1Ghz, or Intel® Pentium™ D Processor 925 3.0Ghz, or Intel® Centrino Duo™ Mobile 1.66, or AMD® Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3600+, or equivalent or higher.
• Memory - 1Gb or higher
• Graphics card - "add in" AGP or PCI Express or PCI card with 256 MB memory or higher.
• Sound card - "on-board" or "add in".
• Hard disk - 500 MB of free space, if multiple Text To Speech (TTS) engines are to be installed then more free space will be required
• Internet connection

The recommended XP PC specification for Lunar/LunarPlus version 8 is:

• Processor – Intel P3 750 Mhz or AMD Athlon 750 or higher
• Memory – 512 MB or higher
• Graphics card – AGP "add in" card with 8 MB memory or higher (not on board)
• Sound card – Sound Blaster 1024 or equivalent (not on board)
• Hard disk – 125 MB of free space
• Internet connection

Note: 64-Bit Editions of Windows Vista operating systems are currently not supported.

Please contact us to check compatibility before attempting to install this product on any operating system other than those listed above. Customers running Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows Me and Windows 98 should contact us at: 1-888-640-1999 to purchase a version 7 license which support these operating systems.