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kimullen - 29 Dec 2004 03:27 GMT

My webpage looks fine in IE and Netscape. When viewed using Mozilla
everything is shifted around and many things are superimposed. If you reduce
the text size in "View" everything can be made to look like it should. I
think the problem occurs when the DPI setting is changed. (The DPII setting
is changed in control panel, display, settings, advanced. This is usually
done because monitor resolution makes screen items too small to view
comforably.) Is there a way to prevent this? Perhaps by joining or
anchoring text boxes and images together. It tried connect ing the text
boxes but that really deals with running text through multiple boxes and
didn't seem to help.
I'm using Windows XP and Publisher 2003. My web page is at
www.Nambetechnologies.com.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Ken

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David Bartosik [MSFT MVP] - 29 Dec 2004 15:59 GMT

The images that Publisher creates are 96 DPI, if you over-ride the normal
monitor settings I could see where that would be an issue. I don't foresee
your site visitors having any issues viewing your site as they won't be
fiddling with monitor settings. I just viewed the site in Firefox and it
looked just as it did in IE, which is a good thing considering it is Pub
2003. I have zero modifications to default monitor and browser settings. I'm
guessing the Text size change you do simply compensates for the higher DPI
and it then balances out. I myself would have to question why, if the screen
display is to small for your preference, you are changing DPI instead of
changing screen resolution.

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com

> My webpage looks fine in IE and Netscape. When viewed using Mozilla
> everything is shifted around and many things are superimposed. If you
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> Thanks in advance for any help.
> Ken

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kimullen - 29 Dec 2004 16:43 GMT

David,
Thanks so much for the quick reply. I'm a bit sruprised that I see this
effect very rarely on other websites- since the problem is my settings.
Anyway, to answer your question, I use 120 DPI setting to increase the text
size while keeping the greater screen resoloution that I paid so much for and
generally enjoy.
Thanks again,
Ken

> The images that Publisher creates are 96 DPI, if you over-ride the normal
> monitor settings I could see where that would be an issue. I don't foresee
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> > Thanks in advance for any help.
> > Ken

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