El dom, 03-03-2002 a las 20:59, Michel Clasquin escribió: > 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! > >
Looks like galeon is turning into my default browser.thanks for your quick response ;o) see ya.
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