Disable anti-aliasing for UI in MuseScore 3 (oh, and increase font size, too)
Hello everyone
I'm trying out MuseScore 3 and I must say I'm impressed with the on-screen anti-aliasing on the scores. I dislike it on the UI, though. It makes the text look blurry. In addition, the font size in the UI is smaller than in MuseScore 2.3.2, making it even harder to read. Is there a way to disable anti-aliasing on the UI and/or to increase the font size in the UI? In the coming year I'll be upgrading from FullHD to 2K, so the UI text will become even smaller.
Thanks
Samuel
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MuseScore 2.3.2 -- nice and legible:
MuseScore 3 -- blurry and puny:
Comments
In theory we get the font settings from the OS but it doesn't always work as expected since there are so many different settings provided by different OS's. So, go to Edit / Preferences and you can override this.
In reply to In theory we get the font… by Marc Sabatella
Sorry to dig this out, but I've got the same issue, the blurry font hurts my eyes. In the settings I can't see a way to override this, sure I can change the font and its size, but the bad antialiasing is stil there. Can't be that hard to add/fix, I mean it was there by default in MS2.
Came up again in https://musescore.org/en/node/290577
In reply to Came up again in https:/… by Jojo-Schmitz
Well, the solution is to use version 2, not version 3. It's actually that simple. :-)
I see (in the press releases etc) that there's a whole host of new features in version 3, but I wonder if it's possible to just continue to use version 2, and then load the file in version 3 in the end and use the extra features to effect some extra pizzaz to it. I haven't tried it, of course.
In reply to Well, the solution is to use… by ugcheleuce
It's certainly possible to continue using MuseScore 2, but most of the advantages of MuseScore 3 come in the regular day to day use, not just in throwing on some extra polish at the end. So you doom yourself to spending far longer creating your scores than necessary, because you miss out on the performance improvements, automatic layout, and other features you'd otherwise be to take advantage of on an ongoing basis.
If you are saying the fonts on your system don't render well at the default size, did you try different fonts or different sizes? There should be far better options than passing up on the amazing improvements in MuseScore 3!
In reply to It's certainly possible to… by Marc Sabatella
My reply was a teensy tiny bit tongue-in-cheek.
I'm using Windows 7, so I can't control the system font used in individual programs (perhaps that is possible under Windows 10?). Also, I'm using the Windows Classic theme, so perhaps my particular use-case is just uncommon.
The MuseScore 3 installer uses "normal-looking" fonts (aliased, same size and face as in other windows and the icon text on my desktop and my start menu/taskbar), but the program MuseScore 3 itself uses that tiny anti-aliased font.
In reply to My reply was a teensy tiny… by ugcheleuce
You can control the font for the MsueScore UI directly from within MuseScore 3, in Edit / Preferences. The default should be standard, but since every system is different, it's inevitable some glitches will occur, which is one important reason we now provide this override.
In reply to You can control the font for… by Marc Sabatella
too bad there is no aa option in there
In reply to Well, the solution is to use… by ugcheleuce
That was what i was doing until now, but i've found the new features to be to nice to ignore
I found the solution to my own blurry UI text here:
https://musescore.org/en/node/284717
Use a '#' to comment out the line "WindowsArguments = fontengine=freetype" in "qt.conf" in the \bin folder.
In reply to I found the solution to my… by jbchlq
Yes, but in this case, the PDF size will increase by five times when you export the PDF.
In reply to Yes, but in this case, the… by Ziya Mete Demircan
By PDF size do you mean the score will look giant, or that the PDF file will consume 5 times more kilobytes/megabytes?
PDF export seems to work fine for me - Windows 10.
In reply to By PDF size do you mean the… by Jm6stringer
PDF file size...
Another one:
In reply to PDF size... [inline:folder… by Ziya Mete Demircan
Wow! Thanks for the reply.
Both your Test-onn and Test-off pdf files look the same, though.
Why the difference?
I tried 'Microsoft Print to PDF' and the "Test-off" resulted in 90.9 KB.
In reply to Wow! Thanks for the reply… by Jm6stringer
I use Musescore's own export function (not an external printer driver).
I think it may export the notes and symbols as SVG or Postscript in case of "on" (default), and convert it to picture in case of "off" (commented). Texts remains as text.
Because I can select symbols and notes in case of "on". But this is not possible in the case of "off" (in the PDF viewer).*1
*1 I'm using the Portable version of Sumatra PDF viewer : https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org
In reply to I use Musescore's own export… by Ziya Mete Demircan
Because I can select symbols and notes in case of "on". But this is not possible in the case of "off" (in the PDF viewer).
Ah yes, which is why software like PDFtoMusic
http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/pdftomusic.htm
needs discrete symbols/notes, and Audiveris can work with scanned scores (pictures).
(BTW: I only used an external pdf printer here (instead of MuseScore's pdf export function) for file size comparison.)
In reply to I found the solution to my… by jbchlq
Thanks.
I didn't know I needed this until I tried it and compared before/after.
(Windows 10)