From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 16 20:35:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA27064 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 20:35:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.lig.bellsouth.net (mail.lig.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA27044 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 20:35:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glenn@bellsouth.net) Received: from gforce.bellsouth.net (host-209-214-146-181.msy.bellsouth.net [209.214.146.181]) by mail.lig.bellsouth.net (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA29764; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 23:35:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bellsouth.net (localhost.bellsouth.net [127.0.0.1]) by gforce.bellsouth.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA03772; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 22:34:04 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from glenn@bellsouth.net) Message-Id: <199806170334.WAA03772@gforce.bellsouth.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mark Ibell cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Glenn Johnson Subject: Re: Netscape fonts In-Reply-To: Message from Mark Ibell of "Wed, 17 Jun 1998 14:02:06 +1200." <3587239E.41A323D@ix.net.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 22:34:04 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Hi, > This has been troubling me for a long time now, but I still find >it disturbing how many web pages are almost unreadable due to >rediculouslytiny fonts being present. Increasing the font size under >Edit/Preferences... doesn't help much - going from 12 -> 14 point >(variable) or 10 -> 12 point (fixed) is a small improvement. Trying for >higher point sizes leads to thick and ugly fonts. Everything looks great >under Windows/Netscape or Windows/IE. So... what's up and what can be >done about it? Any suggestions? > >Thanks, > Mark > >P.S. Size really does matter :) Have you tried using 100 dpi fonts for Netscape? You would put the following in your ".Xdefaults" file: *documentFonts.xResolution*iso-8859-1: 100 *documentFonts.yResolution*iso-8859-1: 100 Of course, you have to have the 100 dpi fonts installed. Using the 100 dpi fonts does help but does not totally solve the problem however. -- Glenn Johnson gljohns@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message