> After some initial euphoria with the QXGA 2Kx1.5K T60 laptop > (two page 12 point text in OpenOffice looks wonderful!), I am > running into font problems, mostly browser related. > > Google gadgets are clipped. Some flash content comes in Really > Small. Some use 5x7 fonts, the line spacing is 1.2 mm! Thumbnails > are tiny. I imagine I will find fixes, but the original incentive > (making cleaner looking, easier to read characters for old eyes) > is not happening the way I had hoped. > > The pixels on this thing are 0.15mm. Crazy small. An iPhone is > 0.16mm, and an 11.6 inch WXGA 1101 EeePC is 2.3mm. > > Yes, I can use a magnifier like kmag, or bring the machine up > in 1024x768 screen mode. The Ctrl+ "view larger" on firefox > does expand pictures, but some things ignore that. > > Hopefully, in a week or two, I will find some fixes, probably some > hidden firefox configuration parameters. Meanwhile, I can think > vengeful thoughts about all the young programmers writing unscalable > apps. Someday, their young eyes will get old, they will no longer > be able to see their own apps, get fired, and live in the gutter :-/
under centos, there is a setting under the font preferences in details that lets you set the dpi. maybe that will accomplish what you are looking for? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
