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Not exactly a tech support question, but it seems to fit better here than in the "Computers" forum.
I just installed the latest Mozilla build (0.9.8 ) for OS/2. (I'm actualy running ECS here, the new OS/2, but no matter.) And, as I so often seem to find, the fonts are weird. (I had exactly the same sort of problems with my Linux box only a lot worse, and with Netscape-family browsers, font weirdness is quite common under Windows too.)
The immediate issue is size. With the default install, the on-screen fonts are ridiculously small on my 19 inch Hitachi (Matrox G450, 1280 by 1024 resolution). So, I went thtrough the usual routine: Edit/Preferences/Fonts and changed the default font sizes. As usual with this POS control in Netscape, it does exactly nothing. Except, of course, make the forms fonts too big. Everything else stays the same.
So, seeing as there is a nice new feature there now to let you explicitly set the display resolution, I tried that. 96DPI fonts, 120DPI fonts, it made no difference at all. Having nothing better to try, I tried "other". The "other" button gives you an on-screen line and asks you to measure it. I did that, and it chewed on my 8cm measurement and decided that 95DPI was appropriate - i.e., still everything the same.
So, seeing as telling it the truth is pointless, I tried lying.
If I tell it the 8cm line is 3.5cm long, I get 152DPI and (hey presto!) a noticable improvement.
You know, there are times when I just have to admit it: if there is one thing Microsoft are good at, it is fonts. OS/2 fonts can be only just bearable, Linux fonts are absolutely hopeless, but Windows fonts just work right first time, every time.
Well ... Netscape can bugger them up, but Netscape has special talents in that regard.
Roll on the OS/2 port of Opera!
I just installed the latest Mozilla build (0.9.8 ) for OS/2. (I'm actualy running ECS here, the new OS/2, but no matter.) And, as I so often seem to find, the fonts are weird. (I had exactly the same sort of problems with my Linux box only a lot worse, and with Netscape-family browsers, font weirdness is quite common under Windows too.)
The immediate issue is size. With the default install, the on-screen fonts are ridiculously small on my 19 inch Hitachi (Matrox G450, 1280 by 1024 resolution). So, I went thtrough the usual routine: Edit/Preferences/Fonts and changed the default font sizes. As usual with this POS control in Netscape, it does exactly nothing. Except, of course, make the forms fonts too big. Everything else stays the same.
So, seeing as there is a nice new feature there now to let you explicitly set the display resolution, I tried that. 96DPI fonts, 120DPI fonts, it made no difference at all. Having nothing better to try, I tried "other". The "other" button gives you an on-screen line and asks you to measure it. I did that, and it chewed on my 8cm measurement and decided that 95DPI was appropriate - i.e., still everything the same.
So, seeing as telling it the truth is pointless, I tried lying.
If I tell it the 8cm line is 3.5cm long, I get 152DPI and (hey presto!) a noticable improvement.
You know, there are times when I just have to admit it: if there is one thing Microsoft are good at, it is fonts. OS/2 fonts can be only just bearable, Linux fonts are absolutely hopeless, but Windows fonts just work right first time, every time.
Well ... Netscape can bugger them up, but Netscape has special talents in that regard.
Roll on the OS/2 port of Opera!