Evil, stinky fonts under Netscape

Top Page
Attachments:
Message as email
+ (text/plain)
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Author: Kevin Buettner
Date:  
Subject: Evil, stinky fonts under Netscape
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 <> wrote:
> >In article <>, "David .."
> ><> 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?
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> Plug-discuss mailing list -
> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>-- End of excerpt from Rod Roark