[PD] scaling problem

[Max]

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I do think the issue you are describing is fixed in 0.51
https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/1084

The other issue can be resolved. Which distribution and version are you 
using?

Max

On 27.08.20 18:59, Allister Sinclair wrote:
> I'm using *Pd 0.50.2*
> It does have Edit > Font menu.
> That makes boxes bigger but it's not scales uniformly.
> All the graphical elements (bang slider etc) stay tiny AND changing font 
> size messes up old patches because everything is crushed together and I 
> have to clean up the patches again.
> 
> Is this resolved in Pd 0.51.1?
> 
> The reason I'm not trying Pd 0.51.1 right now is because it brings me to 
> another problem:
> It is not available with *sudo* *apt install* on linux yet, and last 
> time I compiled pd from source myself, it worked but I couldn't double 
> click pd files anymore nor access pd from desktop and I don't know how 
> to install properly so that doesn't happen.
> 
> Le jeu. 27 août 2020 à 18:10, Max <abonnements at revolwear.com 
> <mailto:abonnements at revolwear.com>> a écrit :
> 
>     Which version of Pd?
> 
>     As for 0.51.1, you can go to the Pd window and in the Edit menu, there
>     is a Font entry, here you can change the GUI font size. (Make sure you
>     do it from the Pd window, not a patch window, where the same menu
>     exists, but only changes the patch font size)
> 
>     However, the prompt windows and file choosers will still be minuscule.
> 
>     I filed an issue earlier
>     https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/1137
> 
> 
>     On 27.08.20 16:02, Allister Sinclair wrote:
>      > Hi pd list,
>      >
>      > So the short version of my question is: PD is tiny on my system,
>     what
>      > can I do?
>      >
>      > I have a Xfce desktop on a small laptop with HD screen (1080).
>      > Everything is tiny because not scaled properly, but I can make it
>     okay
>      > by changing dpi size. This makes everything okay except puredata...
>      > Puredata is still tiny, I'm guessing because of Tcl/Tk. This is a
>      > problem because if I just change the font size it messes up all
>     my tidy
>      > patches (hundreds of them) plus it doesn't take effect on
>     graphics. The
>      > zoom factor is either 1 or 2. 2 is huge. I wish there was some
>     way to do
>      > fractional scaling. Do you know a workaround? In gui plugins
>     maybe? (I
>      > wouldn't know how to program a plugin to change that), or is this
>      > behavior hard-wired to pd?
>      > Thanks
>      >
>      > --
>      > Allister
>      >
>      >
>      >
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