{"id":231,"date":"2008-02-19T15:26:55","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T15:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkesy.wordpress.com\/?p=246"},"modified":"2008-02-19T15:26:55","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T15:26:55","slug":"running-at-higher-dpi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/02\/19\/running-at-higher-dpi\/","title":{"rendered":"Running at higher DPI"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of days ago i spotted a blog post by Daniel Moth called 10 Tips on How to Setup Your Laptop before a Demo<\/a><\/p>\n

10 pretty solid tips but what caught my eye was the second one.<\/p>\n

“Run at (120) High DPI.Task Subject\u00a0Start Date\u00a0Reminder Time\u00a0Due Date\u00a0In Folder\u00a0Categories\u00a0
\nExpo Bespoke\u00a0None\u00a0None\u00a0None\u00a0Tasks\u00a0To-Do\u00a0 I cannot stress this enough. If you are on Vista this requires a reboot but give it a try now and you’ll never look back (all icons suddenly come alive)”<\/em><\/p>\n

Since I’m so easily influenced \ud83d\ude42\u00a0i decided to try it out<\/p>\n

It wasn’t immediately obvious (to me anyway) where to do this but eventually i found it<\/p>\n

Goto to control panel, select the personalization <\/em>option (or just click start, and start to type personalization). On the left hand side of the windows, under tasks you’ll have an option “Adjust font size (DPI)”.<\/em> You’ll need admin rights to change this<\/p>\n

Change from the default setting of 96DPI to the larger 120 size\u00a0and reboot your PC. You can set a custom setting if you want but i wouldn’t recommend it.<\/p>\n

So why did i do this?<\/p>\n

Well i’m firmly in the multiple monitor camp and consider it a serious fetish of mine where bigger and more is better! I’m currently running two 19 inch screens. I’d love to get a couple more screens and up the sizes to 22-24inch but money and office space are sort of stopping me at the moment.<\/p>\n

I digress.<\/p>\n

I’m running both screens at 1280 x 1024 so anything to make the most of those pixels is good in my eyes (pun not intended)<\/p>\n

As daniel mentions in his blog the icons look great and a lot of text becomes much more readable. Outlook almost looks like a completely different app!<\/p>\n

However, there is a downside which means i don’t quite agree when Daniel says “you’ll never look back”<\/p>\n

The problem is that applications have to be “DPI aware” (as i understand it)<\/p>\n

This means Outlook, Word, etc all look fine<\/p>\n

Web browsing is a different matter.<\/p>\n

I’m currently typing this in a form field on the wordpress site. The control itself must be DPI aware as the text it’s in the larger font size i’ve seen over the last few days. However the rest of the site is rendered normally. This means i have lots of small text in amongst larger text. If i visit the BBC website after reading some emails it throws the eyes slightly as your switching between the text sizes<\/p>\n

Also some sites render “correctly” in the new large size as they must be DPI aware. This seems to throw the layout all over the place and sites don’t always display as expected.<\/p>\n

Vista sidebar items\u00a0also stays it’s normal size so my gadgets are tiny in comparison<\/p>\n

I’m sure this will improve over time as screen sizes are getting bigger and prices are getting smaller so applications will need to be more intelligent<\/p>\n

I decided to run in this mode for a couple of weeks as the stuff that does work, works really well so i might be happy to sacrifice the little annoyances<\/p>\n

Note: Couple of good posts explaining this more<\/p>\n

Nice visual demo of how it looks in different DPI settings here<\/a><\/p>\n

Some screenshots of how to change the settings with some good developer information<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of days ago i spotted a blog post by Daniel Moth called 10 Tips on How to Setup Your Laptop before a Demo 10 pretty solid tips but what caught my eye was the second one. “Run at (120) High DPI.Task Subject\u00a0Start Date\u00a0Reminder Time\u00a0Due Date\u00a0In Folder\u00a0Categories\u00a0 Expo Bespoke\u00a0None\u00a0None\u00a0None\u00a0Tasks\u00a0To-Do\u00a0 I cannot stress this enough.<\/p>\n

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