Paul B. Gallagher wrote on 6/2/2017 11:58 AM:
rickman wrote:
Yes, I was able to find it, made the suggested edits and that seems
to work. Thanks.
But this seems to be a rather blunt instrument. It would appear to
be adjusting the thickness of the font strokes and only indirectly
the size. Using the suggested 15px makes the text both larger but
also bolder so that it is hard to distinguish from bold text.
Changing the value to 14px made the type the same size it had
originally been, but still very bold. Smaller values don't reduce
the size further, but make the text less bold until 12px which
appears to be the size used without this file.
The reason for this is that images on a computer screen are actually just
sets of pixels arranged in ways that make sense. Each pixel in a
black-and-white image must either be on (black) or off (white). So if your
program sends an image with a line that's in between say, two pixels wide
and three pixels wide, the display cannot show it two-and-a-half pixels
wide, it has to choose two or three.
There are ways around this -- you can fake it by making borderline pixels
gray on a color monitor; JPEGs do this. But my point was that the fonts look
"bold" because the lines are slightly thicker than they would theoretically
be on a monitor with infinitesimally tiny pixels. It's a display problem,
not a SeaMonkey problem.
I don't follow your post. You start off saying font strokes can only be
integer numbers of pixels wide, then you backtrack explaining how
anti-aliasing is used to provide non-integer values, then you blame the font
limitations on the display.
*All* modern font rendering uses anti-aliasing to prevent the text from
looking grainy. This also allows font stroke widths to be non-integer
pixels. Just look at any other application on the computer and you won't
find this problem. I can select a wide range of font sizes in a document
app and it will look perfect. The browser in SeaMonkey lets me change font
size smoothly and without distorting the boldness. Heck, even the window I
am typing this in allows me to change the font size smoothly and without a
*lot* of distortion although it's not as even as the browser, it is
certainly better than the control we are discussing.
Anyone know if there is a way to make the text slightly larger
without making it bolder?
As a practical matter, if you're viewing a web page and the print is not the
size you like, do CTRL-+ to increase it, CTRL-- to decrease it, and CTRL-0
to return to the default size. SeaMonkey normally zooms the entire page
uniformly, but you can set it to zoom only the text and not the other
elements at Edit | Preferences | Appearance | Content by checking the box,
"Zoom only text instead of full pages."
You haven't read this thread from the beginning. The text being adjusted is
not on a web page. The text is in the newsreader and is everything that
isn't in a post or composition.
Another place you can look is at Edit | Preferences | Appearance | Fonts.
For each encoding (Western, Unicode, etc. in the pull-down list at top), you
can set a minimum size. This is helpful for humans, but some designers
hard-code the sizes of dialog boxes and other display elements, and you may
find that large print in such boxes is not all visible. For such cases, you
have to temporarily disable the minimum size setting, allowing the print to
be tiny enough to fit.
Thanks for the help.
--
Rick C
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