Blurred fonts with uhd 4k monitor and scaling under windows 10

[John Ralls]

There are two pieces of this problem. The first is that GnuCash 2.6.x (and before, back to GnuCash 2.0.0) uses Gtk2 for its GUI toolkit and that stopped active development before HiDPI monitors became common. GnuCash 3.0 will use Gtk3 which has much better support for HiDPI.
That’s the good news.

The other piece is that even Gtk3 doesn’t scale exactly to the monitor resolution, particularly on Windows, so you may see some pixel smearing if the monitor’s DPI isn’t an integer multiple of 96.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Feb 5, 2018, at 12:33 AM, Carmelo Pagan <c.pagan at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> I had a similar problem with windows10. At higher resolutions, text seemed “fuzzy” and some characters appeared to be missing pixels.  I chalked it up to lesser resolutions from my integrated video chipset.  
> 
> But... interestingly, my O/S went south on me. I decided I had had enough of Widows and converted to Linux. Poof! Problem gone. I’m wondering if it’s just a problem with Windows.  I would check to see if your video card can handle high enough resolutions, or if your O/S is limited to lower resolutions.  I know.... not much in the way of help, but I figured I’d share my experience in the hope you can benefit somehow.
> 
> Sincerely , 
> Carmelo Pagán 
> 
>> On Feb 4, 2018, at 2:43 PM, Usar <foren-shops at mailbox.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello GnuCash Community,
>> 
>> I recently bought a new monitor which allows for 3840x2160 pixels. I love
>> the sharpness, alas some programs dont scale very well. It seems to me that
>> gnucash is one of these programs who look rather f***** up with this many
>> pixels.
>> 
>> Is there any way I can have sharp fonts with my setup?
>> 
>> Thanks for your help!
>> 
>> 
>> 
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