Re: Unreadable Fonts in Netscape

2000-04-07 Thread Danny
Hello have you tried going to the following in Netscape 1)Launch NEtscape 2) Edit 3)Preferences 4) On the left you should see the list of options. Make sure you select "Fonts" and change the font size to a bigger number. 5) Click on "Apply" and click on "OK" now you don't have any font size probl

Re: Unreadable Fonts in Netscape

2000-04-07 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 09:00:57PM -0700, Toby A. Rider wrote: > > > > Have a look at the Font Deuglification HOWTO. Help is on the way! http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU.html -- Hal B [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Unreadable Fonts in Netscape

2000-04-07 Thread Toby A. Rider
"John P. Verel" wrote: > > Have a look at the Font Deuglification HOWTO. Help is on the way! > Where can I find that howto. I didn't see it at Linuxberg. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

RE: Unreadable Fonts in Netscape

2000-04-05 Thread Martin R. Gonzalez
document can be found at the linux documentation project site ( I think it is www.ldp.org). Saludos!!! - Mensaje original - De: "John P. Verel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Enviado: MiƩrcoles, 05 de Abril de 2000 11:08 p.m. Asunto: Re: Unread

Re: Unreadable Fonts in Netscape

2000-04-05 Thread John P. Verel
Have a look at the Font Deuglification HOWTO. Help is on the way! On 04/02/00, 12:35:32AM -0500, skybell wrote: > Certain web pages under Netscape are almost unreadable. I tried changing > the fonts in Netscape but with no luck. I am using Red Hat 6.1 , X free > 3.3.5. Any help

Re: Unreadable Fonts in Netscape

2000-04-01 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 12:35:32AM -0500, skybell wrote: > Certain web pages under Netscape are almost unreadable. I tried changing > the fonts in Netscape but with no luck. I am using Red Hat 6.1 , X free > 3.3.5. Any help would be appreciated http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU

Unreadable Fonts in Netscape

2000-04-01 Thread skybell
Certain web pages under Netscape are almost unreadable. I tried changing the fonts in Netscape but with no luck. I am using Red Hat 6.1 , X free 3.3.5. Any help would be appreciated -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

RE: OT: fonts in Netscape

2000-03-13 Thread Ward William E PHDN
just window dressing. Make your website usable by everyone at some lowest denominator, THEN window dress it. You do yourself, and others, a favor. Bill Ward -Original Message- From: Matt Housh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 6:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: R

Re: OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-10 Thread Pete Peterson
> From: Matt Housh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: OT: fonts in netscape > > > The following pages are coded INCORRECTLY: > > > > http://jaeger.morpheus.net/ > > http://www.emeraldbiostructures.com/buffers.h

Re: OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-10 Thread Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 07:04:23AM -0600, Vidiot wrote: > >http://www.cast.org/bobby/ > > Nope, it too doesn't parse the FONT tag. Pity, that. Thanks, Thomas -- "Look, Ma, no obsolete quotes and plain text only!" Thomas Ribbrock | http://www.bigfoot.com/~kaytan | ICQ#: 158

Re: OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-10 Thread Vidiot
>On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 06:05:23AM -0600, Vidiot wrote: >> >http://validator.w3.org >> >> Nice idea, but it does not validate the fonts faces listed. It only >> checks the syntax. I mispelled a font face on purpose and it ignored it. > >Haven't tried it yet, but maybe "Bobby" could help there?

Re: OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-10 Thread Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 06:05:23AM -0600, Vidiot wrote: > >http://validator.w3.org > > Nice idea, but it does not validate the fonts faces listed. It only > checks the syntax. I mispelled a font face on purpose and it ignored it. Haven't tried it yet, but maybe "Bobby" could help there? http:

Re: OT: fonts in netscape (SOLVED, for me at least)

2000-03-10 Thread Vidiot
>Thanks a ton for all the advice on fonts in netscape! > >Vidiot wrote: >> >> You can see the http://www.emeraldbiostructures.com/company.htm page correctly >> because they did the correct HTML coding: >> >> >> > >This was the key.

Re: OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-10 Thread Vidiot
>http://validator.w3.org Nice idea, but it does not validate the fonts faces listed. It only checks the syntax. I mispelled a font face on purpose and it ignored it. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bart: Hey, why is it destroying other toys? Lisa: They must have programmed it to elim

Re: OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-10 Thread Vidiot
>> There are some versions of X that do not allow you to install TT fonts. >> While anyone can build their own X to do so, there will be sites that >> do not allow the user root permission in which to do so. > > They can easily request that the system administrator do it for them. Easily re

Re: OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-10 Thread Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 05:34:13PM -0600, Matt Housh wrote: > > There are some versions of X that do not allow you to install TT fonts. [...] > They can easily request that the system administrator do it for them. Sorry, but they can not. Especially not in a corporate environment. What do

Re: OT: fonts in netscape (SOLVED, for me at least)

2000-03-09 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, everyone! Thanks a ton for all the advice on fonts in netscape! Vidiot wrote: > > You can see the http://www.emeraldbiostructures.com/company.htm page correctly > because they did the correct HTML coding: > > > This was the key. I'm correcting all t

Re: OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-09 Thread Stephen M Lavelle
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Re: OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-09 Thread Matt Housh
> There are some versions of X that do not allow you to install TT fonts. > While anyone can build their own X to do so, there will be sites that > do not allow the user root permission in which to do so. They can easily request that the system administrator do it for them. > It is estab

Re: OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-09 Thread Vidiot
>> The following pages are coded INCORRECTLY: >> >> http://jaeger.morpheus.net/ >> http://www.emeraldbiostructures.com/buffers.htm > > Just so you know, my page is NOT coded incorrectly. That was >intentional. (READ: I did it on purpose.) It's not that hard to install >the V

Re: OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-09 Thread Matt Housh
If you want to view truetype fonts correctly, XFS can render them for you, though it doesn't seem to scale them correctly. What I did was grab all the .ttf files from my windows partition, put them in /usr/ttfonts, run ttmkfdir > fonts.dir in that directory, add /usr/ttfonts to /etc/X11/f

Re: OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-09 Thread Matt Housh
> The following pages are coded INCORRECTLY: > > http://jaeger.morpheus.net/ > http://www.emeraldbiostructures.com/buffers.htm Just so you know, my page is NOT coded incorrectly. That was intentional. (READ: I did it on purpose.) It's not that hard to install the Verdana

Re: OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-09 Thread Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 06:45:55AM -0600, Vidiot wrote: > Excuse me, but if you use style sheets you still are making assumptions > about fonts if you use the "font-family" directive. The only difference > with using style sheets is the the user can override the values, which is > a must for some

Re: OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-09 Thread Vidiot
>Thanks for the reply! I'm glad that page looks fine on your machine. >It still doesn't look fine here. I checked out your me.html page. All >the text is in tiny Times. I see no Verdana there on my machine. I >checked your source code, and I do see that you specified Verdana for >the page.

Re: OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-09 Thread Vidiot
>Of course if you do not have particular font installed on your system then the >application you are using will use whatever default you have previously >specified -- in Netscape you obviously do this in the Preferences. Unfortunately, for Netscape, that is not true. The preferences ONLY work if

Re: OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-09 Thread Vidiot
>That's the exact reason why it is recommended not to use >at all - there is absolutely no guarantee what it will look like on >other machines, as you're making assumptions about font installations >which might or might not be true. The best way to do this is to either >use style sheets or leave

Re: OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-09 Thread Jonathan Ruano
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 09:30:30PM -0800, Hidong Kim wrote: > Thanks for the reply! I'm glad that page looks fine on your machine. > It still doesn't look fine here. I checked out your me.html page. All > the text is in tiny Times. I see no Verdana there on my machine. I > checked your sour

Re: OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-09 Thread AlphaByte
Preferences. Now unfortunately I cant remember where I found that reference but here is a place to start: http://www.links2go.com/more/www.ntrnet.net/~jmknoble/fonts/ Alan On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, Hidong Kim wrote regarding OT: fonts in netscape: > Hi, > > I'm having problems seeing font

Re: OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-09 Thread Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 09:41:50AM -0800, Hidong Kim wrote: > I'm having problems seeing fonts correctly in netscape. I created a web > page using the StarOffice HTML editor. I chose Verdana for the font. > When I view this page in netscape, the font appears as really small, > hard to read Time

Re: OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-09 Thread Adam Sleight
thanks Hal...I have Redhat 6.1 and did what you said and downloaded http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/contrib/noarch/noarch/webfonts-1-3.noarch.html installed the rpm changed the directory from webfonts to TrueType and restarted X and then in Netscape..Edit | Preferences | Fonts I changed Variab

Re: OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-09 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, Matt, Thanks for the reply! I'm glad that page looks fine on your machine. It still doesn't look fine here. I checked out your me.html page. All the text is in tiny Times. I see no Verdana there on my machine. I checked your source code, and I do see that you specified Verdana for the p

Re: OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-08 Thread Vidiot
>I'm having problems seeing fonts correctly in netscape. I created a web >page using the StarOffice HTML editor. I chose Verdana for the font. >When I view this page in netscape, the font appears as really small, >hard to read Times. When I view this page in Windows, either netscape >or IE, it

Re: OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-08 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 09:41:50AM -0800, Hidong Kim wrote: > I'm having problems seeing fonts correctly in netscape. I created a > web page using the StarOffice HTML editor. I chose Verdana for the > font. When I view this page in netscape, the font appears as really > small, hard to read Time

Re: OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-08 Thread Matt Housh
> http://www.emeraldbiostructures.com/buffers.htm if anyone is interested > in looking at the HTML. Thanks, The page looks fine to me. Are you saying you can view other sites that use Verdana in windows, but not with netscape in Linux? You might want to check your XFree86 fontpath, make

OT: fonts in netscape

2000-03-08 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, I'm having problems seeing fonts correctly in netscape. I created a web page using the StarOffice HTML editor. I chose Verdana for the font. When I view this page in netscape, the font appears as really small, hard to read Times. When I view this page in Windows, either netscape or IE, it

fonts in netscape

1998-07-02 Thread Iztok Polanic
Hello !!! For some reason my internet sites look much more bigger then they used too. I haven't installed any fonts. What could be wronganynone! Bye. xx // xx xx

Re: Larger fonts in Netscape URL box

1998-04-16 Thread Pork E. Pigg
Megat Iskandar Hashim B Ismail wrote: > I think you misunderstood my original question. I don't have a problem > with the webpage display fonts. That can easily be configured using your > suggestion. My problem lies in just the text box you type the URLs (the > "http://www.etc.etc") in. A

Re: Larger fonts in Netscape URL box

1998-04-16 Thread Matthew Woodbridge
>>Megat Iskandar Hashim B Ismail wrote: >> >> I'm running Redhat 5.0, and XFree86 (version came with Redhat >> 5.0) using my Matrox Millenium at 1280x1024x16bpp. My problem is >> that the font in the Netscape (4.04) URL box is so squashed, it's >> bearly readable. Switching to a lower reso

Re: Larger fonts in Netscape URL box

1998-04-16 Thread Megat Iskandar Hashim B Ismail
>>Megat Iskandar Hashim B Ismail wrote: >> >> I'm running Redhat 5.0, and XFree86 (version came with Redhat >> 5.0) using my Matrox Millenium at 1280x1024x16bpp. My problem is >> that the font in the Netscape (4.04) URL box is so squashed, it's >> bearly readable. Switching to a lowe

Re: Larger fonts in Netscape URL box

1998-04-16 Thread Pork E. Pigg
Megat Iskandar Hashim B Ismail wrote: > I'm running Redhat 5.0, and XFree86 (version came with Redhat > 5.0) using my Matrox Millenium at 1280x1024x16bpp. My problem is > that the font in the Netscape (4.04) URL box is so squashed, it's > bearly readable. Switching to a lower resolution h

Larger fonts in Netscape URL box

1998-04-15 Thread Megat Iskandar Hashim B Ismail
Hi, I'm running Redhat 5.0, and XFree86 (version came with Redhat 5.0) using my Matrox Millenium at 1280x1024x16bpp. My problem is that the font in the Netscape (4.04) URL box is so squashed, it's bearly readable. Switching to a lower resolution helps a little because the font still