Netscape Font Size

[mattmorrow]

Under the Netscape View menu, "Increase Font" and "Decrease Font" are always grayed-out. I suspect I have to change settings under Preferences->Appearance->Fonts, but no changes I've made enable these two settings. Any ideas?
TIA, Matt

[btberch]

Did you click the box to use your fonts and over-ride the document fonts.

[infiltration]

My father sent this to me through e-mail when I told him I was having problems reading fonts in Netscape. Try these fixes..
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/connect/cbrowse2.html

[mattmorrow]

Re: btberch. Thanks, yes, I tried overriding - and every other combination under Edit->Preferences->Appearance->Fonts (still have disabled, grayed-out, menu items)

Re: infiltration. Thanks, good info. It doesn't have a section that describes how to enable the Increase/Decrease Fonts menu items, tho.....

Any other ideas?

[mdwatts]

What version of Netscape are you using?

I've upgraded to 4.75 and have no problem changing the fonts in preferences. Actually mine look great. My coworkers are impressed by the look of all webpages.

[Rascal01]

I was trying to get the font "scaling" feature to work in Netscape (I presume 4.75, it's from Red Hat 6.2). I'm using a large resolution, making the fonts unreadable in most cases. Is there a way to scale the fonts. I never tried manually setting my own fonts since I was hoping to scale the web page's own fonts, like 20x or something.

If anyone had success with infiltration's suggestion, please let me know. I'll check that out.

Thanks.

[scott_R]

I'm not sure about netscape (netcrap 6 turned me off completely), but mozilla (based on netscape), allows you to change fonts easily by setting your wheel mouse to increase/decrease fonts by spinning the wheel. (I do it by holding down the shift key at the same time.)

Check mozillazine to find a good nightly build and give it a shot if you're so inclined. If you're not sure, you can just download a build into your own directory until you test it, then make it available for other users when you're ready. :)

[spickus]

Have you tried XFSTT? I think it makes Netscape fonts look as good as IE.