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Re: Fonts too small

Posted by Curtis Rueden on Jan 15, 2019; 12:55am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Fonts-too-small-tp5021640p5021641.html

Hi Gabriel,

Which version of Java do you use? Did you try Java 11?

See also
https://forum.image.sc/t/how-to-increase-the-gui-font-size/552

Regards,
Curtis


On Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 17:09 Gabriel Landini <[hidden email] wrote:

> Hi I wonder if anybody has encountered a solution for the small appearance
> of
> IJ when using high resolution screens. ImageJ on a 16 inches monitor with
> 3840x2160 pixels is impossible to read (literally one needs a magnifying
> glass
> to read the text!).  I am seeing this in Kubuntu, with NVidia drivers.
>
> I am aware of the Font option, however setting sizes larger than 16 (still
> too
> small) the Window and Help menu entries do not fit in the fixed size of
> the
> rest of the application anymore and are not shown. I guess this is because
> the
> icons/buttons have a fixed size and the main application frame is fixed?
> The new Appearance Text Scale works to some degree with the submenus, but
> not
> with the application menu or the output sent to text windows. One can
> enlarge
> the text window fonts, but I cannot find a way to store this as a default
> either.
>
> All other applications follow the system font settings. The only other
> application with small fonts was Firefox, but it could be solved with the
> GTK
> font size settings.
>
> Is there any way of scaling both the application buttons and the fonts
> other
> than setting a low screen resolution?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Gabriel
>
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