Symbols in "Special Character window" are too tiny.
When I'm editing a text item, and select the leftmost symbol in the bottom text editing panel (text edit panel.jpg) I get the symbol windows but the characters are extremely tiny. As example, symbols rests.png and symbols noteheads.png.
I searched in the forum for "special characters" and found this previous entry
Home Issues #126811
which has been closed as a Windows 7 issue.
I am running Win 10 but I'm having the same problem.
Is it something with my setup or does anybody else have it?
thanks
Iggy
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Comments
#126811: Tiny characters in Special Characters window wasn't a (plain) Windows issue and got fixed 3 1/2 years ago and is part of MuseScore 3.
Whatever it is now, it got to be a different issue.
Could be a High DPI issue. What is yout screen size and settings?
In reply to #126811: Tiny characters in… by Jojo-Schmitz
Monitor screen is 21" x 12 and resolution is 1024 x 768
In reply to Monitor screen is 21" x 12… by IGMartin
So a 24" diagonal screen? Then 1024*768 is pretty liltle, my (rather old) 20" screen does 1600x1200 already, so you're looks like a very low DPI screen, just some 48DPI, with ~96DPI being more or less the norm and higher being the high DPI screens.
What scaling (my desktop' s one, see above, used 100%, but my laptop's uses 150% by default, which I reduced to 125%, in order to fit more information onto the screen)
In reply to So a 24" diagonal screen?… by Jojo-Schmitz
Well, I looked around the menus and found Edit / Preferences / Advanced / application/paletteScale and increased it to values > 1.00 and that did the trick.
I'm adding examples set at paletteScale = 1.70 and 0.70 to illustrate the effect. I hope this helps somebody else.
Thanks you Jojo for your always prompt attention. I also love your great Yamaha pages !
In reply to Well, I looked around the… by IGMartin
My Yamaha pages??? I'm riding a BMW, not a Yamaha ;-)
That isn't the scaling I meant BTW, I meant the Windows display settings
I can see from your screen shot that it's not just the palettes - almsot everything is tiny. The icons ont he toolbar, and the score itself (you shouldn't need to zoom in to 177% just to read it!). So, the real problem is the connection to the monitor is apparently not transmitting correct resolution info to MuseScore. Proper solution is to use the "-D xxx" command line option, where xxx is the minitor resolution measured in DPI. This solves all those problems at once.