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Customizing Your Display
This page describes how you can change the appearance of documents. To change font sizes:
- From the Edit
menu, choose Preferences.
- Choose the Fonts panel, if necessary.
- Set the Font Size menu to the size you want to use for displayed and
printed text.
- Choose the OK button.
To change fonts:
- From the Edit menu,
choose Preferences.
- Choose the Fonts panel, if necessary.
- Specify
the font you want to use for each of the following:
| Normal Text Font | Font used for most
text. |
| Header Font | Font used for
headings. |
| Monospace Text Font | Font used for
fixed-width text. |
- Choose the OK button.
To change display colors:
- From the Edit menu, choose Preferences.
- Choose the Colors panel, if necessary.
- Choose the Set button to
specify the color of the following elements:
| Text Color | Color of normal
text. |
| Background Color | Color of
background in document windows. |
| Link Color | Color of links. |
| Visited Link Color | Color of links
that have been selected recently. |
- Choose the OK button.
To underline hypertext links:
- From the Edit menu, choose Preferences.
- Choose the Miscellaneous
panel, if necessary.
- Select the Underline Links option.
- Choose the
OK button.
To ignore color attributes specified in
documents:
- From the Edit menu, choose Preferences.
- Choose the Colors panel, if necessary.
- Select the Ignore Document
Attributes option.
Colors specified by <BODY> tag
attributes (BACKGROUND, TEXT, BGCOLOR, LINK, VLINK, and
ALINK) will be ignored. The colors that you specify in the
Colors panel will be used instead.
- Choose the OK button.
To improve image quality:
- From the
Edit menu, choose Preferences.
- Choose the Display panel, if necessary.
- Select the Dither Images option.
On displays with 256 or fewer
colors, this option improves image quality at the expense of slower performance.
- Choose the OK button.
To specify the preferred language for
documents:
- From the Edit menu, choose Preferences.
- Choose the Miscellaneous panel, if necessary.
- Open the Preferred
Language menu and choose the language that you prefer for displaying documents.
If you request a document that is available in multiple languages, Mosaic
will open the document in the language that you prefer, if a version in that
language is available.
This setting only affects the language used to display documents, not the
appearance of Mosaic.
- Choose the OK button.