>>>>> "James" == James Cribb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
James> Brad Pepers wrote:
>> I've also had similar font problems with most web pages I go to
>> that have Java forms or reports. The labels and entry widgets
>> and such are all sized wrong so that they cut off part of the
>> text.
James> Using appletviewer or Netscape? Changing font.properties
James> will affect appletviewer but not Netscape. Netscape
James> usually picks decent fonts anyway, so if they look bad in
James> Netscape then it's probably badly written code again
James> (there's plenty of that out there).
Actually, if the fonts look bad in Netscape as well, it could be the
fonts you have installed. The fonts that are provided with the
standard X distribution don't scale real well. Try the URW fonts (they
are GPL'ed) and are available from the gimp web site (www.gimp.org)
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