blurry fonts (was RE: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Fresh Install 2.4 failing)

[Peter Bienstman]

Hi,

First make sure your Windows Update has all the latest patches. Also make sure your video card driver is as up-to-date as possible.

In this version https://www.dropbox.com/s/uvtydcja8p4t25g/Mnemosyne-2.4.1-pre2-setup.exe?dl=0 I've added a new command line option "--qt-opengl" which can be set to either 'desktop', 'angle' or 'software', which you can play around with if you have display issues. (See e.g. http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/windows-requirements.html)

You can try any of these combinations (although 'software' was the version that didn't work in the previous build), each one with or without the flag '--high-dpi-scaling'.

To repeat how to launch Mnemosyne with command line options, create a shortcut of Mnemosyne.exe, right click to go to properties and edit 'target' to read something like
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mnemosyne\Mnemosyne.exe" --qt-opengl=desktop

Another thing you might try is playing around with the ClearType settings under Windows and see if that makes a difference.

Finally, PyQt version 4.8 is about to come out, which perhaps also makes a difference.

However, if none of these things work, I'm not really sure there is anything more I can personally do about this...

To give some background, Mnemosyne 2.4 switched from PyQt4 to PyQt5, which includes a whole new rendering backend and a new web widget (which is what we use to display your cards). With respect to your fonts changing, perhaps the font name you chose in PyQt4 gets interpreted as a different fallback font in PyQt5? You might try setting your font back and forth between a few options and see how it goes.

Cheers,

Peter

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Subject: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Fresh Install 2.4 failing

I just installed 2.4.1-pre-software-opengl.exe on my laptop (The one that had installation problems).

Installs OK, tips window is OK, but Mnemosyne window is blank. The menu buttons work and display menus, but the buttons themselves are hidden. You have to click where you imagine they would be to bring up a menu.

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