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is there a possibility in ableton to increase the font dpi/size? I got a 17" dell laptop with 1920x1200 and it's all a tinyyyy bit small
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increase font dpi size of ableton layout
well, actually... you do.Machinate wrote:you don't "increase the dpi value" in software, since it depends on what people use, naturally. You do that on the hardware... and I must say that on my 13.3" the size of Ableton Live is just fine
that's what different dpi-sizes are for. so things look bigger without screwing the layout too much (it still happens. sucks. I wish everybody would _finally_ switch to vector guis, but not all of humanity woke up just yet). You can do that on the desktop in the screen menu; advanced section. windows even shows you how large a 10pt Arial looks at that dpi setting.
problem is: ableton seems to work independent from the windows configuration. and on my laptop resolution, the typical font size in ableton is about 2-3 mm high for capital letters.
you can imagine that it's not too super to read from about a meter away.
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I fiddled around with changing the screen resolution on my 17" MBP but it just made everything too soft.
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changing screen resolution is sub-par
the problem is, that the screen resolution of the tft is a fixed size.
if you lower the screen resolution, you will get unsharpness, stretching artefacts, etc.
usually, changing the dpi-size works well. I did it for all the fonts in windows and i can finally use the laptop for 8 hours without eye strain.
some apps just don't use the windows-rendering and ableton seems to be one of them. sucks.
I wish people would finally adopt vector-guis. I cannot state this any clearer.
no more breaching of layout and resize as large as you want.
well at least vista now finally got a library for stuff like that.
they could've done it in ableton if they wanted to.
if they're already painting the gui manually, they could've painted everything vector-wise, too.
this starts to become a very nasty problem with further increase of the tft resolution. I cannot imagine how small it must look on a 12.1" screen with 1024x768 =/ (or even larger - like some of the recent DELL laptops have if I recall correctly).
if you lower the screen resolution, you will get unsharpness, stretching artefacts, etc.
usually, changing the dpi-size works well. I did it for all the fonts in windows and i can finally use the laptop for 8 hours without eye strain.
some apps just don't use the windows-rendering and ableton seems to be one of them. sucks.
I wish people would finally adopt vector-guis. I cannot state this any clearer.
no more breaching of layout and resize as large as you want.
well at least vista now finally got a library for stuff like that.
they could've done it in ableton if they wanted to.
if they're already painting the gui manually, they could've painted everything vector-wise, too.
this starts to become a very nasty problem with further increase of the tft resolution. I cannot imagine how small it must look on a 12.1" screen with 1024x768 =/ (or even larger - like some of the recent DELL laptops have if I recall correctly).