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Daniel Barclay wrote: > > Besides all the other problems I've been having with this > unreliable piece of crap called Netscape (Communicator), > I'm having problem with fonts that are scaled to a size > where they are extremely blocky. > > What is strange is that if I change the font size preferences, > the blocky fonts don't change at all. > > For example on http://www.etrade.com/, the text of the > left-hand list of links (e.g., Stocks & Optinos, IPOs, etc.) > shows up in a very blocky font. (Everything else on the > page shows up cleanly.) > > Changing either (or both) of the variable-width and > fixed-width fonts sizes affects _nothing_ on that > page. > > I thought that those settings set the screen font size to > use to display default-sized (<FONT SIZE=3>, I think) HTML > fonts, AND also adjusted the screen font sizes to use to > display shrunken (e.g., <FONT SIZE=2>) and enlarged (e.g., > <FONT SIZE=4>) HTML fonts. (That is, fonts shrunk from > the default were displayed with a larger screen font, but > it was still smaller than the now-larger screen font used > for default-sized HTML text.) > > (This is currently with Communicator 4.08, but 4.61 and > 4.51 seemed to be the same.) > > Are web sites increasingly screwing around with fonts in > non-standard ways, or is something screwed up (or just not > loaded right) on my machine? > > I think I have the normal X11 fonts installed on my system. > Should that be enough? > > Or do I need special fonts? Do I need xfs? > > Is there anything else I need (besides an H-bomb to remove > a number of these computer-related frustrations from my > environment)? > > Daniel > -- > Daniel Barclay > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy > http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi ) > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
