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Customizing Your Display


This page describes how you can change the appearance of documents.

If you see the error message "Error creating preference file" when you try to set a preference, your NC requires additional system setup for you to be able to save your preferences for a later browser session. The preferences you set remain for the current session only. Consult with your system administrator or refer to NCD Mosaic Browser technical documentation for more information.

To change font sizes:

  1. From the Edit menu, choose User Preferences.

  2. Choose the Fonts panel.

  3. Set the Font Size menu to the size you want to use for displayed and printed text.

  4. Click on the OK button.

To change fonts:

  1. From the Edit menu, choose User Preferences.

  2. Choose the Fonts panel.

  3. 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.

  4. Click on the OK button.

To change display colors:

  1. From the Edit menu, choose User Preferences.

  2. Choose the Colors panel.

  3. Click on 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.

  4. Click on the OK button.

To ignore color attributes specified in documents:

  1. From the Edit menu, choose User Perferences.

  2. Choose the Colors panel.

  3. Select the Ignore Document Attributes option.

    The color attributes defined in HTML documents are not used. These color attributes include background, text (or foreground), active links, visited links and other miscellaneous links. The colors that you specify in the Colors panel are used instead.

  4. Click on the OK button.

To specify the preferred language for documents:

  1. From the Edit menu, choose User Preferences.

  2. Choose the Miscellaneous panel.

  3. 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, the browser opens 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 the browser.

  4. Click on the OK button.