On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 10:12:26PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 01:32:37AM +0200, Frederik wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm experiencing some problems viewing certain webpages, because the font > > that is being used, is not big enough. I've put scaling and dynamic fonts > > on and off in all possible ways, but no luck. Help/Font Displayers shows > > there aren't any installed. Might this be the reason of this problem? > > If so, where should I find these Font Displayers? > > I have noticed the same thing. When I looked at the html for the > offending page, I saw it had a style sheet specifying the point size > to use (at igc.topica.com). > > It's not too suprising that if the site is saying which point size to > use, it's hard to override it. And it's not very polite style. Also, > NS is kind of funky in its handling of styles. > > However, I know the site looks OK when I use MSIE from Windows. I may > try the pointer about the true type fonts (thanks) and see if that > helps.
The following configurations will restrict the range of sizing for
Netscape fonts. Another option is to get a filtering proxy to strip out
HTML cruft such as font face= and size= tags. Add it to
/etc/X11/Xresources/ as "netscape", or otherwise modify your X
resources.
--------------------< begin >--------------------
!## NETSCAPE
# Restrict the range of size increments allowed by <font size=n> directives to
# the range 80% - 120% rather than 50% - 210%. Default increment is 20.
# KMSelf Wed Dec 29 15:47:57 PST 1999
Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 05
# Clean up the fscking toolbar
Netscape*toolBar.search.isEnabled: false
Netscape*toolBar.destinations.isEnabled: false
Netscape*toolBar.myshopping.isEnabled: false
Netscape*toolBar.viewSecurity.isEnabled: false
Netscape*toolBar.print.isEnabled: true
Netscape*toolBar.home.isEnabled: true
# And some other brain damage
Netscape*useStdoutDialog: false
Netscape*useStderrDialog: false
Netscape*noAboutSplash: true
# Fonts -- dialogs and such
Netscape*attachmentProps*XmLabelGadget.fontList: fixed
Netscape*AddressBook*mainform.fontList: fixed
Netscape*XmLGrid*fontList: fixed
Netscape*attachItemLabel*fontList: fixed
Netscape*prefs*fontList: fixed
Netscape*statusBar*fontList: fixed
Netscape*documentFonts.defaultFont*iso-8859-1.prop: -ttf-garamond-120-noscale
Netscape*documentFonts.defaultFont*iso-8859-1.fixed: -ttf-courier new-90-noscale
--------------------< end >--------------------
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