how do i adjust the font size in my user control panels? is it possible?

 

Sure would be nice if it were possible - the standard font sizes used on this site are only suitable for good, young eyes... (I use options on my 'puter to force a minimum font size, but...)

Tom

 

not in the control panel, but +1, it would be nice.

what browser you got?

in IE7/FF on pc, try holding down the ctrl button and spinning your scroll wheel.

 

i know about the zoom but it just makes everything including the pics pixelated. the font size here is the smallest of all the forums i frequent to. and it gives me eye problems.

 

I don't "zoom" on mine to get bigger text, I set an option in Firefox to set a "floor" for the smallest font size allowed to be displayed. If a page has smaller fonts it displays them at the larger size. Sometimes that causes a problem with text 'running over' into the next page element, but for a properly designed page it doesn't.

For totally hopeless cases where it is text in an image rather than actual text, I can simply run the zoom up to read that element of the page (I think 16:1 is max on my laptop) and then drop it back down to normal for use.

I can also incrementally force text on a page to move up or down in size one pixel per click if for some odd reason I need to have more than just the "floor" size.

In any case, doing any of those can make a mess of pages that are designed with text only taking a precise, limited space instead of being flexible.

(Actually, the flexibility is needed just to ensure that text elements of pages will be where expected cross-platform, since Microsoft's way of determining display font size is different from the rest of the world's, anyone looking only at MS Windows machines does not realize that other machines that follow a different interpretation of "font size" are likely to see a "9 point" font as being 9 pixels tall instead of 9/72nds* of an inch tall. This is primarily based on screen displays using "1 point = 1 pixel" in the non-Microsoft world, and Microsoft jiggering that so that there isn't the 1:1 correlation. On a 72DPI screen, this is no problem, but on a more finely divided screen, such as the 96 DPI on my laptop, something 9 pixels tall is only about 3/4 the size expected by a page designer, and too tiny for some of us to comfortably read.)

Anyway, a larger font size would be nice for ScionLife...

Tom

* Actually the "American Standard" printer's "point" is 72.27000072 to the inch, while the "PostScript" "point" is slightly larger at 72 to the inch.