[ILUG] fonts in netscape

[Donncha O Caoimh]

The exact same thing came up a while back, here's some info:

http://io.linux.ie/io/index/f/62/

Donncha.


Padraig Finnerty wrote:
> 
> hi, I was wondering could anyone recommend any good truetype fonts for
> netscape.  I installed the xfstt server yesterday and it works ok, netscape
> recognises the truetype fonts.  Times-New-Roman seems to be quite good for
> normal font size but isn't that readable at smaller sizes, the text looks
> a bit bunched or something.
> 
> a picture of it here:
> 
> http://www.csn.ul.ie/~padraig/it.png
> 
> Are there any fonts that look better at these sizes?  Or is there any way
> of adjusting the font size for truetype fonts?[1]  I have 'Use my default
> fonts, overriding document-specific fonts' selected but that doesn't help
> when the web page specifies tiny font sizes.
> 
> Padraig
> 
> [1] 'Increase font' and 'Decrease font' are disabled in the view menu.
>      In edit->preferences->fonts '0' is the only option in the size-selection
>      box and 'allow scaling' is disabled.
> 
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