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PTK: Font size is too small.

Q: In the GBIF Portal Toolkit that also powers the GBIF web site, the fonts are too small and not scalable. Why don't you use scalable fonts?

A: The fonts are actually scalable as can be seen on some browsers by default.

However, in Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) this is not the default setting. To make it work also in IE you must select from Tools --> 'Internet Tools' --> on the first tab (General) click on 'Accessibility' and choose to 'Ignore font sizes specified on web pages'. After this setting is made, you can change the text size.

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