Hey, I am supposed to be doing "homework" right now, but I am taking short break, so this will probably not be the right answer, but let me know how the outcome is.
Right click on desktop --> Properties
Settings Tap
Advanced
Set DPI setting to Normal Size (insert WinXP CD here if asked)
If that doesn't work, you can manually adjust settings by doing the following
Yeah, but that puts me back where I started. I want the 134 dpi setting so the scale of documents on screen relative to real world documents is 1 to 1. That's what that adjustment is for, along with causing windows to increase text size to what people with a standard resolution monitor would see. Changing the setting back to normal does indeed solve the text cutoff problem, but then 1 document inch is about .7 real inches long on screen (hold a real ruler up to the image of a ruler in a document in word or photoshop, scaled to 100%, and the image of the inch is about .7 inches long).
Is there a way to get 1 to 1 scale (which for me means using a 134 dpi setting) without the text/button cutoff problem? Is this simply a flaw with the feature in Windows?
It's a flaw, but I would call it a flaw in the programming of the application whose windows don't allow for scaling, rather than a flaw in Windows.
I've found that you can usually use the tab button to "scroll" down to the bottom of these boxes, as they often have a button at the bottom. Personally, I put up with this issue, which hardly ever happens, in order to keep my DPI setting at large fonts.
Quintastraphie
49 Posts
0
March 10th, 2004 23:00
Hey, I am supposed to be doing "homework" right now, but I am taking short break, so this will probably not be the right answer, but let me know how the outcome is.
Right click on desktop --> Properties
Settings Tap
Advanced
Set DPI setting to Normal Size (insert WinXP CD here if asked)
If that doesn't work, you can manually adjust settings by doing the following
Right click on desktop --> Properties
Appearance--> Advanced
Manually adjust settings
Good Luck, tell me how it goes.
dog6
18 Posts
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March 11th, 2004 02:00
Yeah, but that puts me back where I started. I want the 134 dpi setting so the scale of documents on screen relative to real world documents is 1 to 1. That's what that adjustment is for, along with causing windows to increase text size to what people with a standard resolution monitor would see. Changing the setting back to normal does indeed solve the text cutoff problem, but then 1 document inch is about .7 real inches long on screen (hold a real ruler up to the image of a ruler in a document in word or photoshop, scaled to 100%, and the image of the inch is about .7 inches long).
Is there a way to get 1 to 1 scale (which for me means using a 134 dpi setting) without the text/button cutoff problem? Is this simply a flaw with the feature in Windows?
-dog6
spiked_martini
948 Posts
0
March 11th, 2004 13:00
It's a flaw, but I would call it a flaw in the programming of the application whose windows don't allow for scaling, rather than a flaw in Windows.
I've found that you can usually use the tab button to "scroll" down to the bottom of these boxes, as they often have a button at the bottom. Personally, I put up with this issue, which hardly ever happens, in order to keep my DPI setting at large fonts.