On Monday 04 March 2002 01:35, Damian Gatabria wrote: > hi.! > > does anyone know how to make fonts bigger for browsers? i'm finding more > and more websites difficult to read ( my screen resolution is not that > high ) and i can't find an option on any of them to enlarge the text. > Only on Konqueror, but it only makes buttons and widgets bigger.
Use Galeon. Out of the box, it has a widget on the toolbar that lets you specify a size from 10% to 200% and above? for that particular page. More generally, you need to go into each browser's preferences, set the font *and* then specify that it should use your fonts, not those specified by the web page author. If you don't specify this, your fonts will only be used if the author made a weak specification like "Serif" (which is actually the right way to write HTML, but fewer and fewer web authors do this) All the examples below start from the top menu: Netscape4: Edit| Preferences | expand Appearance (click on triangle) | Fonts | fill in as you wish Mozilla/Netscape 6: Same as above, but needs to be done separately. Do NOT trust it to pick up your netscape4 prefs! Galeon: Settings | Preferences | Rendering | Fonts/Colors | fill in as you wish Konqueror: Settings | Configure Konqueror | Konqueror Browser | Appearance Opera has these settings as well IIRC, but I don't have that app loaded so you'll have to search for it yourself. Generally each of these ask for a serif font (serif s are the little hooks at the end of letters in typefaces like Times), a sans serif font (sans as in "without", so this is like Arial) and a monospaced font (all letters are equally wide, like Courier). Things like "fantasy font" are ignorable. One final way of making your apps more readable is to take your screen resolution down a notch. If you are running at your monitor's ragged edge, like 1600 x 1200, bring it back down one step and see if your eyes don't appreciate it! -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ... Linux users and the women who chase them - next Oprah!
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