Tiny Fonts in Notification

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Dixon Butz
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Tiny Fonts in Notification

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I am getting unreadable tiny fonts in the notification box today. Never has any issues with that. The notification skin was updated yesterday.
3840x2160 rez with windows scaling set to 169%
Seems like any notification skin ignores the windows scaling now. I tried to change font size by editing a skin. Size did not change.
Haven't tested my other PC's yet with 1920x1080 yet.

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Re: Tiny Fonts in Notification

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Have you tried exiting and restarting PP in this case?

I don't appear to have this issue:
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Re: Tiny Fonts in Notification

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If you mean after changing font size in edit skin. Yes, it has no effect.
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Re: Tiny Fonts in Notification

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I still have a copy of PP without the notification update.
Font size is good pre update.
After updating the notification skin, all font are tiny in all skins.
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Re: Tiny Fonts in Notification

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Ok, I have an idea of why the DPI setting probably isn't working. I used to use 125% and probably would have noticed the difference myself, but I went to 100% last year.

As for editing the skin manually -- I tested it myself and it works as expected. I suspect you weren't changing the right (or all) the controls (or maybe not saving the file?). And it's not necessary to restart PP after changing; if you're in the skin notifier settings, just press "test" after saving and it shows the updated skin.
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Re: Tiny Fonts in Notification

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I meet the same problem. I tried to change font size without any effect but I’m not sure I’m changing the good line.
Windows 10 64 bits
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Dixon Butz
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Re: Tiny Fonts in Notification

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I had to go back to the previous version of notifier.
Will there be a fix?
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Re: Tiny Fonts in Notification

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Using from the main menu "Tools" > "Skin Notifier" > "Select / Skin Settings": Click on Edit Button:
Use "Edit" button to make changes. Use "Test" button to test changes. Be sure to "Save" changes you want.
Use "Edit" button to make changes. Use "Test" button to test changes. Be sure to "Save" changes you want.
Based on the screen-shot posted by Dixon Butz have you tried changing various combinations of the font (FontSize) settings below?

Then be sure to "Save" the changes.

[sMsgFrom1]
Type = _TYPE_Static
Pos = 100 52
# Size = 125 25
Label = From:
MsgId = %Msg_Id_1%
FontColor = 164 164 192
FontSize = 8

[sMsgFromVar1]
Type = _TYPE_Static
Pos = 130 52
Size = 125 25
Label = %Msg_From_1%
FontColor = 192 192 255
FontSize = 8

[sMsgSubjVar1]
Type = _TYPE_Static
Pos = 100 66
Size = 133 35
Label = %Msg_Subject_1%
FontColor = 255 255 255
FontSize = 10
Flags = _FLAG_ST_WRAP

Other members of the Esumsoft Team may have additional comments as well. :wink:
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Re: Tiny Fonts in Notification

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Thanks. I had not changed enough sizes. It seems OK now.
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Re: Tiny Fonts in Notification

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Your very welcome! -- glad you were able to fix it. =D>

Thanks for reporting back. Image
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Re: Tiny Fonts in Notification

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There will be a fix coming. I'll need someone to confirm the fix before I release it, so please email me and I will provide further instructions -- this isn't ready yet so I may not reply until it's ready (which may be days, hoping sooner, but there's still a lot going on).

Also, if you modified an existing skin, you may want to make a backup of its ini file since the installation may overwrite the files; just in case something happens.
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