Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?

2000-04-11 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Thanks for the info. I searched the Netscape.ap file for all occurances of Courier and Helvetica and stuck those lines in my ~/.Xdefaults, but with the font sizes reduced by 10 (100 instead of 120 mostly). Now things look a little better. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel:

Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?

2000-04-11 Thread kmself
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 11:32:03AM -0800, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: To fix this, and some related Netscape brain damage, create a file /etc/X11/Xresources/netscape, with the following lines: Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 05 snip Thanks a lot for these X resources for

Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?

2000-04-10 Thread Armin Wegner
Most web sites are designed for Microsoft. To see them like the author would like you to see them use Windows fonts. So, install the true type font server and copy the Windows true type fonts to the appropriet directory. That's fine.

Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?

2000-04-10 Thread kmself
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 02:14:52AM +0200, Armin Wegner wrote: Most web sites are designed for Microsoft. To see them like the author would like you to see them use Windows fonts. So, install the true type font server and copy the Windows true type fonts to the appropriet directory. That's

Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?

2000-04-10 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
To fix this, and some related Netscape brain damage, create a file /etc/X11/Xresources/netscape, with the following lines: Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 05 snip Thanks a lot for these X resources for Netscape. Do you have any idea how to control the fonts that Netscape uses for

Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?

2000-04-10 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
snip Thanks a lot for these X resources for Netscape. Do you have any idea how to control the fonts that Netscape uses for displaying the menus and other non-web page text? Seems like there should be a X resource for that too. karsten already mentioned it: the Netscape.ad file. in the

fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?

2000-04-08 Thread john smith
how can I fix netscape's ugly fonts? how? I can barely read the fonts esp. when visiting sites with really small fonts they are almost unreadable...well, except maybe if you use a magnifying glass or a microscope or something. then it becomes better. it said in the font HOWTo that netscape

Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?

2000-04-08 Thread Tom Pfeifer
This mini-HOWTO should help. It has a specific section for Netscape: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU.html Tom john smith wrote: how can I fix netscape's ugly fonts? how? I can barely read the fonts esp. when visiting sites with really small fonts they are almost unreadable...well,