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Re: font substitution?

Subject: Re: font substitution?
From: "Rijk van Geijtenbeek" <rijk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:37:47 +0200
Newsgroups: opera.customize.general


Op Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:37:05 +0200 schreef Robin Zalek <bteorl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:13:07 +0100, Swann <guermantes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

In these days of CSS, if I choose to display pages in user mode rather than Author mode, then the whole page usually becomes illegible due to structure. So I am forced to use Author mode.

But if I want to change body copy fonts it gets impossible because most CSS files specify e.g. Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, generic sans serif. Without removing the 3 former typefaces from my computer I can't change the display font. In Opera's settings I can only change the generic sans serif but I can't do any font substitution, e.g. substitute Tahoma for Verdana.

Is there a trick or a hack that could enable this possibility in Opera?

Thanks!

Tools-->Preferences-->Advanced-->Content-->Style Options...-->Presentation Modes
Check "My Fonts and Colours" underneath the Author Mode heading.

Or, and this way is probably preferred if you know how to write CSS files, setup a user.css file
Specify the file's location here: opera:config#UserPrefs|LocalCSSFile
You may need to use !important rules, but I believe entries in user.css override page styles.

With the !important addition, they do.

If the file doesn't seem to be (and you may need to restart Opera to see changes) check the dialog mentioned above and make sure "My Style Sheet" is enabled in both modes.

User.css files can be created in site specific preferences too, so you can override more specific things if a generic list of rules fails to cover an edge case.

See also here:
<http://my.opera.com/Rijk/blog/2004/05/25/using-browser-css-and-user-css-in-opera-7-5-for-non-geeks>
for some tips on using a user.css file.

Hm, I should update that page, some things are not applicable anymore. The examples of CSS code are still nice though, you can copy and paste them into you user.css file.


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