Upgrade
To upgrade your copy of ZoomText, all you need to do is give us a call at 800-859-0270 and have your old serial number ready. If you’ve registered it with us, we can look it up for you.
Unsure if you want to upgrade your older version of ZoomText? You can always download a trial of our latest version to see what’s new and here’s a list of everything that’s been recently added to the ZoomText feature set:
What’s New in ZoomText 9.1?
ZoomText 9.1 delivers innovative magnification and reading features that allow low vision computers users to see, hear and use their computer with greater comfort and productivity. Below you find a list of the powerful features introduced in ZoomText 9.1. With the clearest text, clearest voices, and now twice the magnified view, ZoomText 9.1 is the clear choice.
In addition to the already versatile capabilities of ZoomText, ZoomText 9.18 adds two new revolutionary features: smooth panning and built-in scripting support.
Smooth panning provides you with a smooth, clean vision experience when working with ZoomText at a large magnification. As you move around the computer screen, ZoomText will keep all the text crisp and keep the view from jumping and causing visual discomfort. This feature provides a natural panning motion that keeps the focus in view as you move around the screen. As you type text, navigate menus, dialogs and other program controls, the magnified view stays with you wherever you’re working. You can also enable “smooth mouse panning” to move more quickly around your screen using your mouse.
The new built-in scripting feature allows you to customize the behavior of ZoomText and other applications, providing more informative visual and audible feedback, automation of tasks, and improved speed and efficiency while working. The scripting feature puts the power of customizing ZoomText into your hands. Customized scripts can be written by any experienced script writer, and pre-made scripts will be available for download at a later date.
New Dual Monitor Support
Now you can utilize two monitors to “expand your magnified view”. At any magnification level you can now have twice as much information in view at all times, cutting down on the amount of scrolling necessary to see everything on screen. You can also use the second screen to share a magnified or unmagnified view of your desktop with another person or group.
Note: Dual Monitor Support is available in Windows Vista and XP only.
New Focus Enhancements
The new Focus enhancement feature makes it easy to locate and follow along when you tab and arrow key through menus, dialogs, tool bars, and other application controls. When a control has focus, a bright, colorful rectangle or underline is placed around or under the control, making selection of controls much clearer.
Support for Windows Vista
ZoomText 9.1 offers robust support for the new Windows Vista operating system, allowing you to take advantage of Vista’s improved security, stability and of course, it’s fresh, eye-catching user experience.
New Windows Vista Logon Support
ZoomText’s new logon support provides essential magnification and screen reading features when logging into Windows Vista.
Support for Microsoft Office 2007
ZoomText 9.1 is ready for the new look and feel of Office 2007. In Word, Excel and Outlook, all of the new user interface components are tracked and spoken with the clarity you’ve come to expect in previous versions of Office.
Support for Adobe Acrobat 8 and Adobe Reader 8
ZoomText’s reading tools, including AppReader and DocReader, allow you to create and read documents in the latest releases of Acrobat and Reader.
Support for Mozilla Firefox 2.0
ZoomText offers advanced support for Firefox 2.0, allowing you to accurately navigate and read complete web pages. In addition, you can use ZoomText’s Web Finder and Text Finder to quickly locate the links, controls and text that you’re interested in.
New Screen Enhancement Schemes
Additional schemes have been added to each of ZoomText’s screen enhancement options.
New Inverted Block Locator Type
A new type of view locator that provides greater emphasis on the area that’s currently being magnified, making it easier to select a new area to zoom in on.
New Cursor Enhancement Sample Box
The Cursor Enhancement dialog now includes a sample box to help you select a cursor enhancement scheme or select custom cursor settings.
If you’re running a version of ZoomText that’s even earlier than 9.0, you’re missing out on even more:
xFont Technology
With our new xFont technology, you’ll see amazingly clear text at all magnification levels. All types and sizes of text are displayed with unmatched clarity, in all of your applications. Once you’ve seen ZoomText with xFont, no other screen magnifier will do.
Human Quality Speech
With our new NeoSpeech synthesizers, your applications and documents are read aloud by friendly, human-sounding voices. Sit back and rest your eyes while ZoomText reads your documents, web pages and email. We think you’ll agree that NeoSpeech is a total pleasure to listen to.
Application Settings
Application Settings give ZoomText the intelligence to adjust settings on the fly whenever you switch applications. Just save the settings you like for each application and ZoomText restores them automatically.
Text Finder
The new Text Finder makes it easy to locate words and phrases in any program or document window. Type what you’re looking for and ZoomText finds it in an instant.
Reading Zones
And with ZoomText’s new Reading Zones, you can quickly see and hear selected locations in any application – a real time saver that eliminates aimless scrolling.
Enhanced Magnification Levels
To round out the new 9.0 features, we’ve dropped in additional magnification levels. New 2.5x magnification is sure to satisfy users who have said “2x is not enough and 3x is just too much”. And for our high magnification users that are migrating to super high resolution screens, we’ve extended ZoomText’s magnification from 16x all the way to 36x.
