<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">From that link, it looks like you can add settings/small scripts inside the ~/.wishrc and/or ~/.tclkitrc files in your home folder. I assume setting the dpi there will affect tcl/tk apps like pd…<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The relevant info that caught my attention is:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">MGS - The tk scaling value should be set to its correct value as early as possible. I do this in my ~/.wishrc file as follows:<br class=""> tk scaling -displayof . [expr {101.6 / 72.0}]<br class="">I know my monitor is 101.6 DPI by measuring with a ruler and dividing into the screen resolution.</blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Seems like if you know your screen’s dpi, you can manually try setting the scaling amount you will need. At least worth a try.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m only assuming all of this by quickly doing a google search and finding that page. it may or may not work and is indeed an issue with tk’s implementation on your OS. I’m running Pd vanilla on a High PDI screen on OSX but Apple has added automatic app screen scaling in OSX.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 17, 2016, at 11:33 AM, Martin Dupras <<a href="mailto:martindupras@gmail.com" class="">martindupras@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Thanks Dan,<br class=""><br class="">I understand the theory, but I have to confess that I don't understand<br class="">the information in the link. COuld you elaborate on how one would use<br class="">this information to increase the font size? I must confess that I have<br class="">zero experience programming tcl or tk.<br class=""><br class="">- martin<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On 11 April 2016 at 08:41, Dan Wilcox <<a href="mailto:danomatika@gmail.com" class="">danomatika@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Looks like you could set the tk scaling in a .wishrc file:<br class=""><a href="http://wiki.tcl.tk/8484" class="">http://wiki.tcl.tk/8484</a> (Press Show Discussion)<br class=""><br class="">--------<br class="">Dan Wilcox<br class="">@danomatika<br class=""><a href="http://danomatika.com" class="">danomatika.com</a><br class="">robotcowboy.com<br class=""><br class="">On Apr 10, 2016, at 11:08 PM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:<br class=""><br class="">From: Csaba Láng <langcsaba@gmail.com><br class="">Subject: Re: [PD] Menu fonts much too small on 4k screen<br class="">Date: April 10, 2016 at 6:13:59 AM MDT<br class="">To: "pd-list@lists.iem.at" <pd-list@lists.iem.at><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">ctrl+T is a good option to adjust the font size of the objects to your<br class="">needs.<br class="">About the menu, no idea yet.<br class=""><br class="">Best:<br class=""><br class="">Popesz<br class=""><br class="">On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Martin Dupras <martindupras@gmail.com><br class="">wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class="">I just acquired a new laptop with a 4K (3840x2160) screen, and am<br class="">running Fedora Linux with PlanetCCRMA on it.<br class=""><br class="">Everything works fine, pretty much, but everything in PD is just too<br class="">small. The menus are difficult to read. Objects are also so small that<br class="">it makes it difficult to hone in on the outlets of objects.<br class=""><br class="">Is there some setting that can set at launch to make those things bigger?<br class=""><br class="">Many thanks!<br class=""><br class="">- martin<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list<br class="">UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -><br class="">https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>