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Bug 155604

Summary:

[Webapp] Small/unreadble fonts in help

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Angel Vera <arvera>

Component:

User Assistance

Assignee:

platform-ua-inbox <platform-ua-inbox>

Status:

RESOLVED DUPLICATE

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

larinac

Version:

3.3

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Small fonts in help browser	none

Description Angel Vera

2006-08-29 17:24:07 EDT

Using Windows and IE, when you select the text size to be the smallest, the Help System will be affected displaying almost unreadable text(see the attached imaged). To the minimun there should be an option for the user to change the text size. The user doesn't have a way to change this unless he actually makes the association that IE is affecting the Help browser as well.
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1.  Go to Internet Explorer.
2.  Select View > Text Size > Smallest.
3.  Close Internet Explorer.
4.  Open Eclipse 3.2's product help:

Comment 1 Angel Vera

2006-08-29 17:25:25 EDT

Created attachment 49008 [details]
Small fonts in help browser

Comment 2 Curtis d'Entremont

2006-08-29 17:42:50 EDT

Just to confirm, are the fonts consistent between Help and IE? Ideally the font sizes should match the rest of eclipse instead of IE.

Comment 3 Angel Vera

2006-08-30 09:44:31 EDT

Yes, the font size are consistant between IE and Eclipse. 

This situation is even worse because as Tim Deboer mentioned to me, the default stylesheets used by Eclipse and WTP set the font one size smaller than the IE default, which makes the text a better size by default, but too small when a user has changed IE to use it's smallest size.

Comment 4 Chris Goldthorpe

2007-04-09 14:35:47 EDT

We no longer use fixed size fonts so it is possible to increase the font size for example by moving the mouse wheel with the control key held down.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 145540 ***