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archy

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Registered: 2006-01-17

Posts: 13

opera font sizes

Ok, I haven't seen anything with regards to this in the forums, so hopefully I haven't missed a completely obvious answer.

I have some strange differences in font sizes between firefox and opera.  Some fonts tend to show up notably smaller in opera than they do in firefox.  As an example, the login to gmail (username and password fields) and the actual font size after logged in to gmail itself are tiny compared to firefox.  I even forced the dpi to 96 in local.conf, which didn't change anything in firefox, but bumped up all font sizes in opera which is equally bad.  I have screenshots below of the login so you can see what I mean.

firefox:

opera (no local.conf dpi set):

opera (local.conf dpi set to 96):

I've also compared the two under windows as well and the same differences don't seem to exist, so I guess it's just a linux issue with opera.  Anyone know why there is such a difference or if there's a way to make the font sizes approximate those in firefox?  Any help is appreciated.

McQueen

Member

From: Arizona

Registered: 2006-03-20

Posts: 387

Re: opera font sizes

Adjust the DPI for Opera via the User Prefs, and while in that GUI you might also expand the Font config section and try adjusting the types and size ranges. Past the line below into the URL window:

opera:config#UserPrefs

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archy

Member

Registered: 2006-01-17

Posts: 13

Re: opera font sizes

Thanks for the suggestions.

I tried playing around with opera's dpi setting, it didn't fix the problem.  Even deleting the .opera directory and starting fresh, changing that setting only changed the menu, tab, location bar fonts with no effect on any web site font.

Of all the font settings I changed in the gui, the only one that had an effect was the ones dealing with all normal fonts which made things bigger or smaller even for fonts that were just fine.

In my attempts to work this out, I did find that disabling antialiasing resulted in the font size being similar to firefox, but the fonts in general were pretty ugly.

It seems like it's an all or nothing game.   :?

rezza

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From: Edinburgh, uk

Registered: 2004-07-08

Posts: 237

Re: opera font sizes

Different browsers render their fonts in different ways, they won't ever be the exact same size and shape even if you specify the same font and point size. There's nothing you can really do about this, apart from choose the browser you prefer and then play around with the fonts until you get them looking to your satisfaction.