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But I will say this: if you experiment with your fonts long enough, you should be able to find something that looks o.k. on your linux machine. If you are having real trouble reading your web pages, you can try setting your fonts to Helvetica 18 pt. or even 24 pt. (for the variable font) and courier 18 or 24 for the fixed width. Some pages will disregard your settings, since the font face and size is specified, but you should be able to override that by selecting "use my default fonts, overriding document-specified fonts." This is something I've done routinely, but so far I've never found any version of Netscape on any machine that honors it. I've also found that setting the font size to 18 or 24 points doesn't usually affect those tiny fonts at all; it only seems to affect text in which the page doesn't set the font size. But if the page sets the font size, then Netscape always honors the page's font size, no matter what I do with my settings. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? Is there some way to tell Netscape "I mean it? Is there some other setting somewhere that I don't know about, that overrides the "use my fonts" setting? It seems that this setting is a total no-op. Maybe it's a placeholder for something that they just haven't gotten around to implementing yet? There are some pages that I'd like to be able to read ... - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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