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.
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."
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.
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Paul B. Gallagher
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