[18818] in Athena Bugs
Small font sizes in Netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas H. Grayson)
Mon Feb 26 12:49:36 2001
Message-Id: <200102261749.MAA02233@arrowsmith.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:49:29 -0500
From: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>
Netscape on Unix renders many pages with very tiny fonts. These
pages are generally immune to Netscape's font preference
settings, often because the font has been specified in the web
page as an absolute rather than relative size. Other times the
font named in the page is unavailable under Unix, at least as
it's presently configured, which causes the page to look strange,
at least. I've seen some web pages that indicate that it is
possible to configure a font server for TrueType fonts under
Linux that alleviates this problem. I don't know if this is
possible under Solaris. Have you considered adding TrueType font
support to Athena? My weakening eyes would surely thank you.
Tom Grayson
