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Name: R.Virdee
Date: February 14, 2005 at 06:13:40 Pacific
OS: WinXP SP2
CPU/Ram: Athalon 2400+/768MB
Comment:

I recently bought a 19TFT monitor and am playing about with setting it up for best viewing. The Screen is set to the recomended setting of 1280 X 1024 but when viewing web pages, the text seems small. I have set the Display DPI setting to 125% normal size but that setting only changes the default setting of the Windows information. How can I increase the Font size of the Web content? Is this set by the content provider? Changing the Text Size under the View menu makes no difference.



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Response Number 1
Name: keltikgent
Date: February 14, 2005 at 06:21:19 Pacific
Reply:

hi,
in internet explorer go to view then text size and make it large or larger.
keltik


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Response Number 2
Name: XpUser
Date: February 14, 2005 at 06:21:59 Pacific
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Go to IE > View > Text Size to adjust to your liking. Other than that, there is nothing you can do about the LCD native resolution. If you adjust it to any other size, it will look blurred.

i_XpUser


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Response Number 3
Name: R.Virdee
Date: February 14, 2005 at 06:36:33 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks for the replies.
OK, I was wrong and what you say works.
But not on all sites. I was specifically looking at
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
I am having difficulty viewing this site at this resolution and the Font size will not change.


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Response Number 4
Name: XpUser
Date: February 14, 2005 at 06:40:02 Pacific
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ is one of a number of websites that disable your browser ability to change the text size. Once again, there is nothing you can do.

i_XpUser


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Response Number 5
Name: keltikgent
Date: February 14, 2005 at 06:43:13 Pacific
Reply:

hi,
can the resoloutin be adjusted at all.to like 1152x864 or 1024x768? dont know how you can see with it at the settings you have,mine is set to 1024x768 and it is small.
other then trying to use diffrent settings not much can be done,well i dont know of anything.
keltik


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Response Number 6
Name: R.Virdee
Date: February 14, 2005 at 07:02:15 Pacific
Reply:

I have it on at 1600 X 1200 and this is viewable on the Telegraph web pages but is not acceptable for daily use as the display is larger than the screen!

I suppose I have to accept that the Telegraph has disabled the browser and I will learn to live with it.

Many thanks for your help.


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