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Re: Tiny display in Win 8.1
Thank you all for trying to help. None of the above helped. After installing version 5 today, at least the overlapping issue is resolved. The application is now usable on low resolution settings or a big screen. It appears, as I suspected, to have been related to the version of Java. The former version was very old. I have also upgraded to Windows 10. The display is still very small on my Surface Pro 3, and there is no preference in the application to set the font size of the app itself. That's really an oversight and I'll submit a feature request. Thank you all again!
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Actually, I retried Puybaret's fix above and it works now! It didn't make any difference at all before, but I am now able to set the text size to 30 and it is perfect! Thank you so much!
I am having the same problem with Windows 10. Made the text file as suggested by Puybaret but I cannot find the ini file in the C:\programfiles\sweethome 3D file. Any other suggestion?
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Re: Tiny display in Win 8.1
The ini file doesn't exist. It's up to you to create it if you need one.
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Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator
I use Windows 10 and have exact the same problem. I made the text file but cannot find the ini file as is described? What else can be done or how can the ini file be missing?
I did copy and paste the lines of code in a note-pad file. Saved the file as an ini file since I copied and pasted the name you gave in the text. Copied the ini file into c:/programfiles/sweethome 3D and than restarted the program. unfortunately still the same result: the fonts are to small and the text is overlaying.
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Re: Tiny display in Win 8.1
You create the file, name it correctly, paying particular attention to the file name extension, and save it to your desktop. Close the file then copy it to the folder. If you don't know where you saved the file open your text editor and look for the file in recent documents then do a "save as". Pay attention to where you're placing the file.
Just downloaded the app to create a floor plan for the house I want to build. Came across the font size issue on my windows 10 laptop (has 2k resolution). Thanks for the fix using the .ini file. I used font size 30.
When you save the file in notepad, make sure to name it using double quotes. It will make sure to preserve the .ini extension, otherwise, notepad will add .txt extension to you filename.
