On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 10:40:13AM -0700, Morse wrote:
> I am running RH 6.2. I am running a Matrox Millennium on a decent
> 17 inch Hitachi 620 monitor at 800 X 600 X 32bit.
> Linux has drivers for both the card and monitor and display is
> good. However in Netscape the fonts are pretty tiny
>
> It has been a long time since I have used Netscape and I am not sure
> if this is Netscape or RH6.2.
> Under Netscape Preferences / Fonts I have
>
> For Encoding: Western (iso-8859-1)
>
> Variable width Font = Times (Adobe) size 12
> allow scaling is not enabled
>
> Fixed width font = Courier (Adobe) size 10
> allow scaling is not enabled
>
> Use document - specified fonts, including Dynamic Fonts is enabled
I don't think you will fix it with any of this. Probably what you are
hitting is webpages that specify TrueType, and there is no good
equivalent in Linux (out of the box anyway), so you get guesswork from
Netscape/X. Adjust the above preferences for normal looking websites
(like www.redhat.com).
> What I end up seeing is REALLY tiny. I am not sure but it may of
> gotten bad after I installed the new final version of Coral Office
> for Linux. What I really need is something like IE5s View text size
> which lets you quickly adjust the font size.
>
> How can I fix this ?
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU.html (Font De-uglification)
http://home.c2i.net/dark/linux.html#ttf
http://feenix.eyep.net/xstuff/xfs.html
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