How do I stop MLO text from being slightly blurred in Win10 (on 4K screen)

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John . Smith

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Feb 17, 2017, 3:09:50 PM2/17/17
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Hello

I have just moved my MLO to a new PC running Windows10 (x64) with a 27inch 4K (i.e. 3840x2160) resolution screen.
My text size / scaling is set to "150% Recommended".

How do I stop the MLO text being slightly blurred?

Cheers

J

Jonathan Davis

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Feb 17, 2017, 3:31:24 PM2/17/17
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Try this compatibility mode fix, it worked for me. 


http://windows10_dpi_blurry_fix.xpexplorer.com/



Welcome. This page is only intended to help you with the DPI Scaling for Windows 10 if you have blurry fonts on high DPI. When we installed Windows 10.




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Smith, John

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Yes I agree that that fix will stop MLO text from looking blurred, however all it is doing is stopping the DPI scaling completely for MLO. The result is that MLO text is absolutely minute!

==> Nice try but no, this is not a satisfactory answer!

J



On 17 February 2017 at 20:30, Jonathan Davis <lim...@gmail.com> wrote:

Try this compatibility mode fix, it worked for me. 


http://windows10_dpi_blurry_fix.xpexplorer.com/



Welcome. This page is only intended to help you with the DPI Scaling for Windows 10 if you have blurry fonts on high DPI. When we installed Windows 10.





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Hello

I have just moved my MLO to a new PC running Windows10 (x64) with a 27inch 4K (i.e. 3840x2160) resolution screen.
My text size / scaling is set to "150% Recommended".

How do I stop the MLO text being slightly blurred?

Cheers

J

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John . Smith

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Feb 18, 2017, 10:22:00 PM2/18/17
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Here are some screenshots of the problem on my 4K monitor. 





i.e. I need text to be scaled to at least 150% (ideally 200%) or it becomes pretty tiring on the eyes to read...


J

John Smith

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Feb 20, 2017, 5:13:52 AM2/20/17
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Can I just say that this is an ENORMOUS issue for me.

On my 4K monitor almost all text in almost all applications is way to small to read without difficulty, so we are forced to use Windows's "Scaling" to something other than 100%. I have tried using 150%, 175 and 200%.

At any of these settings if I do nothing, MLO's entire interface is blurred.
If I tick: "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" then then text becomes painfully small.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE can the MLO developers fix this problem.

With thanks

J






On Friday, 17 February 2017 23:05:01 UTC, John . Smith wrote:
Yes I agree that that fix will stop MLO text from looking blurred, however all it is doing is stopping the DPI scaling completely for MLO. The result is that MLO text is absolutely minute!

==> Nice try but no, this is not a satisfactory answer!

J


On 17 February 2017 at 20:30, Jonathan Davis <lim...@gmail.com> wrote:

Try this compatibility mode fix, it worked for me. 


http://windows10_dpi_blurry_fix.xpexplorer.com/



Welcome. This page is only intended to help you with the DPI Scaling for Windows 10 if you have blurry fonts on high DPI. When we installed Windows 10.





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Subject: [MLO] How do I stop MLO text from being slightly blurred in Win10 (on 4K screen)

Hello

I have just moved my MLO to a new PC running Windows10 (x64) with a 27inch 4K (i.e. 3840x2160) resolution screen.
My text size / scaling is set to "150% Recommended".

How do I stop the MLO text being slightly blurred?

Cheers

J

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John . Smith

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Feb 22, 2017, 6:48:36 AM2/22/17
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UPDATE:
Just to say, I simply cannot stomach the default blurriness of MLO.

So I have been forced into ticking "Disable display scaline on high DPI setting" on the shortcut to MLO.  The text is of course way too small, so I have to put reading glasses on and sit very close to the screen.  

It works up to a point, but various things simply aren't readable. When this happens I have to exit MLO, untick the above and go back in. 

Obviously the above is not a great long-term solution. Please can someone raise this blurred interface & scaling issue with MLO developers. Modern applications (e.g. the msOffice suite) don't have this problem. 

Thanks

J

MOK | MATSURU

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Feb 22, 2017, 9:06:14 AM2/22/17
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J,

  This might not be the long term solution but it will save you the hassle to tick and untick the high DPI setting:-

  When u need to read small text, on the keyboard press the "windows" key + "=" this will enable the zoom in feature of windows. Of course, after zoom in, the words will look pixelated but at least u can quickly glance at the info. Then, press "windows" + "-" to zoom out.

  Hope this is helpful, for now.

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Andrei Bacean

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Feb 26, 2017, 2:28:30 AM2/26/17
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Hi John

MLO natively supports different font size for task tree, for views names, the notes area.
See the screenshot with the example.

The setting is here:
Tools/options/themes and formating.
click on Edit.
choose Fonts&Icons tab.
Uncheck the Use default font name and size.
Press the button with 3dots.
Edit the font type and size.

Hope this will help

Br
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