After dorking with Netscape for quite awhile I found that just
unchecking the 'allow scaling' button for variable width font makes a
pretty decent improvement in readability without makeing 'nice' sites
have huge print.  I'm using 14-point at 1024x768 and Netscape 4.73  Very
late at night I might need to up that to 18 point.
Steve

Kevin Buettner wrote:
> 
> Thanks Rod.  This suggestion worked well for me too.
> 
> On Jul 6,  6:31pm, Rod Roark wrote:
> > Subject: Re: Evil, stinky fonts under Netscape
> > On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > > On Jul 6,  4:33pm, Joel Dudley wrote:
> > >
> > > > You can change the font size under the "preferences"  menu.
> > >
> > > That works for me too.  But, still, I can't help but feel that I'm
> > > missing something when changing the fonts for one site to make things
> > > readable ends up making most of the other sites come up with a really
> > > big font.
> > >
> > > Kevin
> >
> > What follows is an old newsgroup posting on this topic.  It worked
> > for me!
> >
> > -- Rod
> >    http://www.sunsetsystems.com/
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup
> > Subject: Re: Small fonts in Netscape?  Mozilla is even worse!!!
> > Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 19:37:24 GMT
> >
> > On Thu, 03 Feb 2000 11:08:46 -0800, MrNiceGuy <mrniceguyNOmrSPAM@arkansas.net.invalid> wrote:
> > >In article <3899B2DB.8B5DB9D2@zhotxmail.zcom>, "David .."
> > ><zthunderzboltx01x@zhotxmail.zcom> wrote:
> > >>Here is a trick to fix the font size in netscape. I found it at
> > >>www.portico.org.
> > >>
> > >> Netscape has a bad habit of making small text so small it is
> > >>unreadable, and
> > >>increasing the standard font size makes normal text too big.
> > >>To fix this, add:
> > >>
> > >>       Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 5
> > >>
> > >>to your .Xdefaults file, log out and log in again.
> > >>
> > >
> > >Thanks for the info, but will something similar work for
> > >Mozilla's tiny menu fonts?  That's what I really need to fix!
> >
> >  Unless the moz developers are being very bad boys,
> >  you should be able to tweak that with your gtk
> >  settings (.gtkrc).
> >
> >  Did you search mozilla.org regarding this matter?
> >
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