Size of font on hardware (too small)

Hi,
A general comment for the Linksys/Cisco design team, not sure where else to post this. I have several Linksys/Cisco products including the Linksys WTR54G travel router and the Linksys SPA2102 ATA. I find the printing on the hardware too small to read, especially in low light situations. I measured the font size on the ATA and the characters on the labels for the plug-in sockets is 1 mm high (that's like 1/8"). These are the words "Internet", "Ethernet", "Line 1", Line 2", "power", etc. On the travel router, the same thing, character size too small. There seems to be room to use much larger character sizes. If someone can pass this onto the team that designs the graphics on the hardware, that would be great.
Thanks.

Hi Sastry,
I tried what you said - I clicked the Font Button on Group Labels (which on my chart is on the Y axis) - it contains the names of the Reporting groups - I was able to make the names of the reporting groups (Sugery, Medical, etc.) larger than the default (which seems to be about 12) and then I thought, the thing that I an asking about - what is the label on the x axis (numbers generated by Crystal from 6-32 in the case of my graph) I should be able to change by going into the Data Label Font dialog box.
But I can't get these numbers to change size (which is what the user wants). They are still a tiny font (4 I think) no matter what I do.
Any more ideas?
Thanks,
Dick

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pj98 wrote:
Please update to PR1.2 when available, it contains some changes to improve the readability of the UI texts.
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