Setting overall font size?

Mom and Dad don't like the full resolution 'tiny' font size on their new iMac. If I set the resolution to 'lower' everything gets much bigger on the screen ... but then awkward, and spills outside the screen frame.
Is there a way to keep the high resolution AND make all the general screen fonts larger?
Any help woud be most appreciated...
Ben

Unfortunately, there is no system-wide way to change the font size in Mac OS X. And LCD screens work at their best only at their native (high) resolution. So we are kind of stuck with regard to font size. Of course we can increase the text size in Safari and in Mail, but most menu and system fonts are not adjustable at all.
There has been talk of a feature called "resolution independence" which was rumored to be introduced with Leopard. Unfortunately not yet. A feature such as this would make it possible to change font sizes of the GUI freely while using the LCD screen at its native resolution. We can only hope that this will appear in some future update to OS X.
Regards,
Steve M.

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== Description
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