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RC7 When using larger font sizes the help viewer still shows standard fonts. I suspect this is an issue of how HTML is displayed - if there is a way to set this please let me know. STEPS 1) Switch your font to windows extra large in the properties dialog of the OS 2) Start Eclipse 3) Select the System default theme from the Appearance preference page 4) Open the help - fonts are still standard size
Hmm it seems the doc CSS specifies absolute font sizes (pt).. not sure why. In order to get large fonts here you'll need to tell help to use an external browser and your external browser must be able to scale absolute fonts, and then scale them up in the browser. IE doesn't allow this, but firefox does. The fix is to change the CSS to not use absolute font sizes.
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I'm thinking this is something I should fix for 3.2.1.
+1 from me
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Created attachment 45401 [details] patch Patch to use relative font sizes in the CSSs. Due to inconsistencies between browsers, the font sizes will be a little different on some platforms, even with default setups. For example, in Safari the fixed width font is a bit smaller than before on my setup, but still readable. I tried using values that worked well on most browsers. With this fix, all browsers should be able to scale fonts properly. Note: IE does not always adjust properly to the system font settings, so if you have your windows fonts set to large, you may have to also explicitly set it in IE. However it does seem to work when I turn on high contrast mode with large fonts. Firefox seems to work with everything I tested.
Dejan, could you check in the patch to HEAD ? I don't have access to org.eclipse.platform and org.eclipse.sdk. Will leave this one open for 3.2.1 (branch not yet open for 3.2.1 changes).
Dejan, could you apply and release to HEAD and the 3.2.1 branch? (I don't have access)
Didn't get this in early enough in 3.2.1. Should have left more runway to flush out potential problems. Deferring to 3.3.
Are we ready to go ahead and make this change? I'd like to see us switch to using relative font sizes because absolute font sizes work differently between IE and Mozilla and moving to relative fonts would eliminate the problems that occur when users resize their fonts in IE. I'm planning on moving to relative units elsewhere in the Web App. It would be good to do this while we have plenty of time to shake out any side effects.
Created attachment 56306 [details] updated patch; original is stale Dejan, could you apply?
In HEAD.
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