Re: Fonts too small

Posted by Wayne Rasband-2 on Jan 16, 2019; 1:33am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Fonts-too-small-tp5021640p5021649.html


> On Jan 14, 2019, at 6:08 PM, 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.

Set “GUI scale” to 1.5 or higher in the Edit>Options>Appearance dialog in the ImageJ 1.52k30 daily build, restart ImageJ, and the “ImageJ” window will double in size. Set “GUI scale” to 2.5 and it will triple in size. On Linux, the font size of the menu bar and menus also double or triple on size. Weirdly, on Windows 10, the menu bar font size does not change. “GUI scale” replaces the “Text scale” option that was in previous 1.52k daily builds.

-wayne

> 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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