Richard_Morrison Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 I've been working on a project in Win8. When I opened the project in Win7, the text blocks are just SLIGHTLY larger than the Win8 version. (In length, not width) Longer text blocks are proportionally more "off" than shorter ones. I don't know if the difference is in the line spacing or the fonts themselves, but it causes some longer blocks to go slightly over their grid line boxes in Layout in Win7. These are exactly the same font files. (I know since I copied them from the same files.) Anyone experience this and have a fix? Tech Support had no clue. I have tried text blocks on layouts started in X5, as well as X6 native layouts, and the behavior is the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbuttery Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Tech Support had no clue Richard: not sure why they had no clue ??? CA has stated many times that Chief uses whatever fonts are installed on Windows so most likely a windows issue Lew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicinus Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Is it the Chief Blueprint font or a Windows font? Perhaps Microsoft may have tweaked their kerning tables for Myriad, Cambria and the other Windows specific ones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_Morrison Posted September 4, 2014 Author Share Posted September 4, 2014 No, this is a third-party TrueType font. (like Arial) The kerning should be built into the font. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicinus Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 If everything is the same otherwise, ie the same version of Chief, I would then suspect either Cleartype or antialiasing has had slight adjustments between the Windows versions. I noticed myself that a room label in chief is not antialiased, but if I convert the text to a text block it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 I don't have access to Chief at the moment, but there is a setting somewhere called something like use cad text style or similar. It could have a completely different name, but you will know when you find it - probably in text defaults. Maybe it is set differently for each Chief version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 I think Chief has said they don't use Antialiasing at this point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJSpud Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 I think this is the setting Glenn is referring to: I haven't checked this setting out to see if I can detect any differences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJSpud Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Below are the results of a quick test. The text on the left had the box checked while the smaller text on the right had the box unchecked. Quite a difference in the text sizes. Thanks for pointing that out Glenn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Curt, No problems. Yes, that was the setting I had in mind. I knew that setting was there somewhere, but couldn't remember where, or what it's exact name was without access to Chief. I hope it solved your problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicinus Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 I think Chief has said they don't use Antialiasing at this point Yes, I read that too, but when it comes to 'Rich Text' it is definitely antialiased. Have a look at the pic, lower example is Rich Text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Dan_Park Posted September 4, 2014 Solution Share Posted September 4, 2014 Richard, I have seen issues with this where the Windows Text size was set differently causing display issues from one computer to another. In Windows 7 this is in: Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Display Where you adjust your font display size. This display size affects how the GDI draws fonts and can affect how fonts display on Windows. (You can see small differences going to MAC from Windows as well.) I have also seen some Windows 8 computers shipped with defaults that set the text size to 125% instead of the default 100%. This is typically with small high dpi screens, You should verify that these settings are the same on both computers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_Morrison Posted September 5, 2014 Author Share Posted September 5, 2014 Ding, ding, ding. Give that man a kewpie doll! Thanks, Dan. Turned out my laptop was set to 100% and my desktop (with the 30" monitor) was set to 125%. Setting the laptop to 125% made them match. Whew! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug_Park Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 That is a bug. The screen DPI is not supposed to affect the size as you described. If you can get the steps required to reproduce this to support we should be able to fix the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_Morrison Posted September 5, 2014 Author Share Posted September 5, 2014 Okay, Doug, I have submitted this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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