[ILUG] Netscape & fonts

[Barry Flanagan]

Kenn Humborg wrote:
> 
> Lots of pages display really ugly in Linux Netscape on my
> machine.  It often stretches bitmap fonts rather than
> choosing a more suitable scaleable font.
> 
> Anything that can be done about this?  Pretty much stock RH5.2
> and Netscape 4.08.

Under Preferences/Fonts, I find it often best to select the fonts you
want and then choose to always use my fonts, over-riding
document-specific fonts. Also, turning off the "Allow Scaling" helps.

It seems to depend on the particular setup you have as to which is
better - some machines I allow document specific fonts (disabling
dynamic ones), and on other machines find that sticking to my own fonts
works better.

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