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- <H2>Customizing Your Display</H2>
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- This page describes how you can change the appearance of documents.
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- <A NAME="FONT_SIZE"><B>To change font sizes:</B></A>
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- <P><LI>From the Edit menu, choose Preferences.
- <P><LI>Choose the Fonts panel, if necessary.
- <P><LI>Set the Display Font Size menu to the size you want to use for displayed
- text.
- <P><LI>Set the Print Font Size menu to the size you want to use for printed text.
- <P><LI>Choose the OK button.
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- <A NAME="FONT"><B>To change fonts:</B></A>
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- <P><LI>From the Edit menu, choose Preferences.
- <P><LI>Choose the Fonts panel, if necessary.
- <P><LI>Specify the font you want to use for each of the following:
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- <TD VALIGN="TOP">Normal Text Font</TD>
- <TD VALIGN="TOP">Font used for most text.</TD>
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- <TD VALIGN="TOP">Header Font</TD>
- <TD VALIGN="TOP">Font used for headings.</TD>
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- <TD VALIGN="TOP">Monospace Text Font</TD>
- <TD VALIGN="TOP">Font used for fixed-width text.</TD>
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- <LI>Choose the OK button.
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- <P><B>To change display <A NAME="COLOR">colors</A>:</B>
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- <P><LI>From the Edit menu, choose Preferences.
- <P><LI>Choose the Colors panel, if necessary.
- <P><LI>Choose the Set button to specify the color of the following elements:
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- <TD VALIGN="TOP">Text Color</TD>
- <TD VALIGN="TOP">Color of normal text. To use the Window Text color set in the
- Windows Control Panel, select the Use System Colors option.</TD>
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- <TD VALIGN="TOP">Background Color</TD>
- <TD VALIGN="TOP">Color of background in document windows. To use the background
- color set in the Windows Control Panel, select the Use System Colors option.</TD>
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- <TD VALIGN="TOP">Link Color</TD>
- <TD VALIGN="TOP">Color of links.</TD>
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- <TD VALIGN="TOP">Visited Link Color</TD>
- <TD VALIGN="TOP">Color of links that have been selected recently.</TD>
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- <LI>Choose the OK button.
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- <A NAME="UNDERLINE"><B>To underline hypertext links:</B></A>
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- <P><LI>From the Edit menu, choose Preferences.
- <P><LI>Choose the Miscellaneous panel, if necessary.
- <P><LI>Select the Underline Links option.
- <P><LI>Choose the OK button.
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- <A NAME="IGNORE_ATTRIBUTES"><B>To ignore color attributes specified in
- documents:</B></A>
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- <P><LI>From the Edit menu, choose Preferences.
- <P><LI>Choose the Colors panel, if necessary.
- <P><LI>Select the Ignore Document Attributes option.
- <P> Colors specified by <FONT SIZE=2><BODY></FONT> tag attributes (<FONT
- SIZE=2>BACKGROUND, TEXT, BGCOLOR, LINK, VLINK</FONT>, and <FONT
- SIZE=2>ALINK</FONT>) will be ignored. The colors that you specify in the Colors
- panel will be used instead.
- <P><LI>Choose the OK button.
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- <A NAME="DITHER"><B>To improve image quality:</B></A>
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- <P><LI>From the Edit menu, choose Preferences.
- <P><LI>Choose the Display panel, if necessary.
- <P><LI>Select the Dither Images option.
- <P> On displays with 256 or fewer colors, this option improves image quality at
- the expense of slower performance.
- <P><LI>Choose the OK button.
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- <A NAME="LANGUAGE"><B>To specify the preferred language for documents:</B></A>
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- <P><LI>From the Edit menu, choose Preferences.
- <P><LI>Choose the Miscellaneous panel, if necessary.
- <P><LI>Open the Preferred Language menu and choose the language that you prefer
- for displaying documents.
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- <P>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.
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- <P>This setting only affects the language used to display documents, not the
- appearance of Mosaic.
- <P><LI>Choose the OK button.
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