nt314p
October 28, 2017, 9:12pm
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I have just started using fritzing and I have noticed that the parts are fuzzy looking (low resolution). Is this normal?
It’s sort of affecting my productivity (especially with the arduino pin numbers)
I have a surface pro 3 (2160x1440 display) which may be the cause.
Thanks!
I’m using it at 1366 x 768 and no issues.
nt314p
October 30, 2017, 8:17pm
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Hmmm, but your screen height is just over half of mine.
I’m no computer wizz. They just work or not for me. So unable to advise.
vanepp
October 30, 2017, 8:51pm
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Don’t have a high res screen so can’t help, but there has been discussion of this before in the forum (although as usual I can not find the article I remember). I think there is a qt setting that helps somewhat. Here is one article I found on high res screens:
I’m having a slightly different issue with Fritzing 0.9.3b on Xubuntu 16.04 on a 1080p screen. The components in the palette are a useable size but the program menu text and the bubble labels for components that appear if you hover the mouse over them are unreadably small. A screen grab is attached. [image]
perhaps someone else has a reference to the other article I remember (or a better search term ).
Peter
nt314p
October 30, 2017, 10:05pm
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Thanks Peter,
Hmm, in that article it says that its working for some people but not for others. I guess I’m one of the others…
I hope they’ll fix it in an update, but for now, I’ll hang tight and try not to squint too much.
vanepp
October 30, 2017, 10:09pm
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here is the one I was thinking of with a qt level fix:
Ubuntu Xenial 16.04, 64-bit, Unity desktop.
1920x1080 display, 1.25x scaling.
Running for the first time, everything seems too big, leaving quite limited working area (image 1).
As soon as you try to navigate menus (e.g. View, then Window), application resizes itself, becomes bigger than the screen (right toolbar becomes almost inaccessible) and once in this state, it is irrecoverable until restart (image 2).
After above, trying to resize the application produces a lot of weirdness - it seem…
hopefully this helps (or someone else has a better comment) because development (and thus updates) seems stalled due to lack of developers.
Peter
You could try starting Fritzing with scaling disabled. You will have to go to the fritzing folder in a terminal and invoke fritzing with:
You can also read through this github issue that may have other workarounds since all the scaling issues seem related. Fonts way too big and unconfigurable · Issue #3221 · fritzing/fritzing-app · GitHub
There is 2 work around for that. First . right click on the icon . comptability tab. Chek the thing for scaling high dpi box ( sorry for broken english i use french version of windows) and in the list select use application setting ) or disable . then start it as a admin. If that dont work. Before starti g the app. Go in display option of windows . scale back to 100% then start the app and swith to your normal %
Quick screenshot on a 4k monitor next to my 1080p. All seems fine. I’d have to question your hardware…
Everything seems normal to me, all scales to be the same. So you might want to try this on some other hardware.
res settings…