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john-oh
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« on: October 24, 2010, 06:48:46 PM »
Hi,

I've just moved Qimage onto a new (replacement) PC. I'm running Win 7 64bit. 1920*1080 screen res.

The Qimage menus (and some other text) is absolutely tiny, the readme file refers to some ini files, but I can't find these.

Any suggestions ?

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« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2010, 08:39:55 PM »
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The Qimage menus (and some other text) is absolutely tiny

Click on Start, Control Panel, and Display.
Then set the text size to medium or larger.

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« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2010, 10:55:54 AM »
Might want to post a full size screen shot too.  Hard to quantify "tiny": I'm running 1920x1080 here to develop Qimage and no problems.  So I'd like to see what you are calling tiny.

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Mike
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« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2010, 05:26:03 PM »
If you are using an LCD monitor you'll get better text by running at an even multiple of the native monitor resolution.

"Tiny" is relative also to the size of your monitor relative to the resolution used. On a 1620xsomething 4:3 resolution on a NEC P221W monitor, full 22 inch diagonal with 11.6 vertical, whatever the default font sizes are used by QImage Pro are easily read by me in full screen mode. The 4x3 aspect ration works well for canvas of the editor application I use and images are not distorted.

If the real estate for tool and menu structure if different in Studio requiring smaller fonts than my experience my Pro experience regarding default fonts then my Pro comment is of course not valid in your case.
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« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2010, 10:21:37 AM »
A couple of clickable screenshots here :



Strangely, some of the menu items appear in a larger font ?
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« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2010, 10:45:56 AM »
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Strangely, some of the menu items appear in a larger font ?

Please be more specific if you can.
The thumbnail font and point size is adjustable, as is the annotated text.
See EDIT Preferences, Thumb Font.
See screen snap.
Maybe that will help a little?

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« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2010, 06:39:08 PM »
Quote from: john-oh on October 28, 2010, 10:21:37 AM
A couple of clickable screenshots here :



Strangely, some of the menu items appear in a larger font ?

Hard to tell because those aren't full size shots (they look downsampled and blurry) but I do see an anomaly.  The dropdown menus and standard selections look like they are in an oddball font.  Qimage uses a (usually 11 point) Arial font for those menus.  I've seen thousands of installations of Qimage and have never seen that issue or even one similar.  In fact, the only way I can fathom that happening is if you've done something to "funktify" your fonts on your system and you've somehow lost the Arial font.  Is there anything you can think of that you've done that would affect system fonts?  Every Windows system should have the Arial font.  If it doesn't, it's considered a faulty installation of Windows.

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Mike
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« Reply #7 on: October 29, 2010, 01:36:00 PM »
Strange,


I've not knowingly 'funktifyed' my system - indeed, I didn't know it was a word  Cheesy

I'll investigate a bit further, thanks for your help.
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« Reply #8 on: October 29, 2010, 02:30:22 PM »
Quote from: john-oh on October 29, 2010, 01:36:00 PM
I've not knowingly 'funktifyed' my system - indeed, I didn't know it was a word  Cheesy

Tiz now: I just conjurfied it up.   Grin

Let us know if you find anything that could be messed up with the fonts.  This is an interesting one.

Mike
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« Reply #9 on: November 01, 2010, 09:44:42 AM »
Sorted,

It was indeed the Arial font missing, this was confirmed when I ran ProShow Gold, which told me on start up that the Arial font was missing and the screen display could be affected.

I had to have several attempts at re installing as on reboot it appeared to disappear again, seems OK now though - fingers crossed - .

Still don't know what caused it to  go missing

Thanks for your help.

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John
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