Making a larger cursor??

Somewhere I once read about being able to set the cursor to a larger size? I've got too many screens going right now ... too much landscape to find that little cursor in.
Any suggestions?
All ears,
Ben

HI Ben,
Open System Preferences/Universal Access and click the Mouse tab. Where you see:
For difficulties seeing the mouse... use that slider to increase the cursor size.
Carolyn

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Open your System Preferences/Universal Access preference pane, check in "Seeing" to insure that "Zoom" isn't selected.
Also check the settings for "Mouse"- you can move the slider to change the size of the cursor.
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this was my first time creating a huge project. it was a 12ft long banner.
using illustrator i created it.
ok so first i set the rasterizing effects to 300ppi. was i not suppose to? i gave me a probe saying i had to much artwork or something... but then it worked...
then i stretched a large photo a bit and it didn't look like it pixelated at all so i was happy......it was just a texture for the background set to overlay....you can barely see it....
the worst is the gradient under the texture. its totally pixelated in the background.
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Eric,
When discussing appropriate raster image resolution, a little technical understanding is necessary, but common sense applies.
Digital printing devices make tiny fixed-size marks called printer spots. Printer spots do not vary in size (expressed as Spots Per Inch).
Printer spots are used to "build up" images of halftone dots which varying size in order to suggest to the human eye varying tints of the ink(s).
Raster images consist of square pixels.
If the square pixels of the raster image being printed are scaled to a size large enough for their square shape to be rendered by the pattern of roundish halftone dots, that's when "pixelation" (aka "jaggies") occurs. So there is a relationship between the size of the scale of the image pixels (expressed as Pixels Per Inch) and the frequency of the halftone dots (expressed as Lines Per Inch) that will be used to render them.
There is a much too-often cited myth that "everything in print should be rasterized to 300 ppi." That is nonsense. The rule-of-thumb is 1 to 2 times the halftone ruling, and that rule-of-thumb assumes normal size print viewed at hand-held distance.
Therefore:
For normal hand-held printing like magazines, newspapers, etc., anything between 1 to 2 times the halftone ruling is servicable for most grayscale or full color raster objects. That's a range. It doesn't mean that "if 1 x halftone ruling is okay, then 2 x halftone ruling must be great." It does not mean that, for any given image, 300 PPI is automatically better than 225 PPI or 150 PPI, or any other resolution. For most photographs, properly sharpened and placed on the page at 100%, 1.5 x the halftone ruling is just fine, and going higher is usually just needless overkill.
Example: Typical magazine ad. Web printed on coated stock with a halftone ruling of 150 LPI: 225 PPI for your raster photos is fine, assuming they are properly sharpened and are not enlarged after placing on your page layout.
Example: Typical newspaper ad. Web printed on crappy uncoated newsprint with a haftone ruling of 100 LPI: 150 PPI for your raster photos is fine, assuming they are properly sharpened and are not enlarged after placing on your page layout.
Note that the above assumes photos. Photos are not the only raster images used. Read on.
Whenever you resort to raster images just to achieve a continuous-tone grad or soft fuzzy shadow or whatever (in other words, raster effects), just using a PPI equal to the halftone ruling is a gracious plenty. Your concern in such situations is not to preserve any pristine detail or subtle texture of some photographer's "masterpiece." Your only concern about a fuzzy drop shadow or glow is to avoid noticable pixelation (jaggies). What is pixelation? It's just the condition of the squareness of the raster image pixels being visible to the viewer.
Now considering that halftone dots are round and that image pixels are square, ask yourself this question: Can the shape of a square ever be faithfully rendered by a single round dot? No. So as long as your square pixels are not larger than the halftone dots that will be used to render them, will anyone be able to detect the stair-stepped squareness of the grayscale or color pixels? No.
But there's another use for raster images other than photos: 1-bit raster images printed as a solid (raster line art). Often, 1-bit solid-colored raster images do not become halftoned at all. They are built up not out of relatively course halftone dots, but out of the much smaller printer spots that a printing device uses in order to build halftone dots. Those tiny printer spots, then, are much more capable of rendering the squareness of the pixels in your 1-bit raster image. So in that kind of situation, you want to use a raster PPI fine enough to look smooth to the naked eye, even if it is stair-stepped.
That doesn't mean you have to make the PPI of 1-bit raster images equal to the SPI capability of the imaging device. Typically, PostScript imagesetters are capable of printing at least 2540 SPI. But on all but the sharpest printing on high-quality coated stock, few viewers are going to see the jaggedness of a 1200 PPI solid.
Now note that all the above assumes normal hand-held viewing distance. Read on.
Is anyone going to read a 12-foot-wide banner at arm's length? Of course not. All large format printing is done so that something can be read at a longer-than-arm's-length distance. So you can think of the viewing distance as a "down scale" factor which achieves the same purpose as what is considered "normal" PPI at "normal" hand-held reading distance. You can make a big study of it if you want to, but the end result is that you can pretty much use the same PPI that is appropriate for something designed for hand-held distance, and blow the whole thing up (including the halftone dots) to larger scale for distance viewing.
That's why if you both to check (which is not difficult to do; just take a pocket ruler and approach a billboard next chance you get), you'll find that very large format halftone printing involves halftone rulings as low as 50 or even 30 LPI. So if, for example, you assume a large format halftone ruling of 50 LPI, what can you safely assume as a practical range for the raster PPI when enlarged to that scale? Remember: 1-to-2-times the halftone ruling; therefore, 50 to 100 PPI.
Now...realize again that all the above, for the sake of explanation, is presented in the context of halftone printing. You have not yet specified the printing device, what halftone ruling will be used, or whether halftoning will be used at all.
Nowadays, large format composite digital printers designed for one-off prints (or very low print runs) don't use halftoning at all. Instead of using their printer spots to "assemble" halftone dots to simulate tints, they randomly distribute their printer spots more sparsely for light tints and more densely for dark tints. In other words, instead of varying the size of uniformly-spaced halftone dots, they vary the spacing of uniformly-sized printer spots. The method is generally referred to as stochastic screening, and it is far more common than you think; it is the screening method most commonly used in most so-called "photo quality" desktop inkjet printers. It is also nowadays most commonly used in large format printers.
Stochastic screening allows relatively low-resolution (low SPI) devices to achieve what looks like greater detail than what would result if those relatively course printer spots had to be "used up" to build halftone dots. So generally speaking, stochastic screening can render acceptable sharpness and detail on lower resolution devices--which in turn also require lower PPI raster resolution. So even if you use the halftone-centric rules-of-thumb, stochastic screening works to your advantage. (Think of it as an additional measure of "safety margin.")
So there may be some other factor coming into play if your printer is telling you that your images (which sound to me to be grossly oversampled) are "pixelating". For one long-common example, when you print a format intended for a PostScript device (EPS content) to a non-PostScript printer, what gets printed is a screen-resolution raster "placeholder" raster image. That problem afflicts even the vector content of an EPS file.
You need to specify the output device type, screening method, and the details of the workflow (file formats,etc.) you are using. Also be aware: you can't always be sure the output provider actually understands the matters described above any better than you do.
Also how do they have those huge posters hanging in Manhattan with pictures of people? Arent those jpeg's?
Why would you assume that a large format print is necessarily printed from a JPEG file?
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