[plug] Screen res/Netscape

Darrell Horrocks darrellh at kpbg.wa.gov.au
Mon Nov 29 08:22:26 WST 1999


Just a quick answer, but one that means that I can take off my glasses.

Make sure that you have the display box active, and then use ^] (^[ lowers font
size) for on the fly font resizing.

This also works in messenger.

This does not change the default settings, but can be good for some hard to read
pages.

Darrell.

Len Bird wrote:

> Peter Smith wrote:
>
> > Can someone possibly tell me why my monitor appears to run at a high res
> > when I run Netscape through RH 6.1? Text appears VERY small and quite
> > difficult to read! My variable and fixed width fonts
>
> > are set to 12 pt. Using
> > Netscape/win98 gives me quite large type which is what my weak eyes require!
> > Regards
> > Peter
> >
> > May the great god of Lotto smile kindly upon you.
> >
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> Try resetting your font sizes in Edit/Preferences/Fonts.   The point size
> defaults to 12,  and the result is what you complain of.  Reset this to at
> least 16-----it is a trade off between this and truncating your display window.
> You can also play about with the actual Fonts which may make for easier
> reading. It works for me anyhow,
>
> Best of luck----Cheers,   Len Bird



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