# Font Scaling seems to be component dependent

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/font-scaling-seems-to-be-component-dependent/18894>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [July 19, 2018, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/font-scaling-seems-to-be-component-dependent/18894 "2018-07-19T13:32:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![rpulsifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9a140/32.png) [@rpulsifer](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rpulsifer)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/font-scaling-seems-to-be-component-dependent/18894/1 "2018-07-19T13:32:28Z")

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I have some users that have recently acquired some high resolution laptops - 3880x2640 as opposed to the 1910x1080 that i typically design for. PRoblem is, some thng scale as one would expect, but other things definitely do not - I have everything relaive anchor with Scale Font checked (though I’ve played with various combinatons of settings:

here’s a shot of a screen on my 1366x768 laptop  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/f/fa09334aa9f0c57d0d99e2c89ebf920299e482c0.png)

and here’s one tiny corner of a screen on one of the high res laptops:  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/a/ab5aaecf18de47405748eacf9076d3a2691a01eb.png)

I fixed the table by using the power table, which, for whatever reason handles such things properly, but the labels and the axis tick marks to name a couple are so tiny as to be unreadable. I quite understnad that they are the right number of pixels and on those laptops pixels are microscopic - but understanding the why doesn’t make to any more palatable to my users.  
Any tips /tricks in this regard??

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/font-scaling-seems-to-be-component-dependent/18894/2 "2018-07-19T16:17:14Z")

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On the high DPI client machines, try using Java 9 + Native Client Launchers.

Java 9 is supposed to have better high DPI support (better as in it exists).

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**Author:** ![zxcslo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/zxcslo/32/61610_2.png) [@zxcslo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/zxcslo)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 5:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/font-scaling-seems-to-be-component-dependent/18894/3 "2018-07-19T17:25:09Z")

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This is not the problem of Java, but some components in Ignition (in fact quite a few) doesn’t scale well (or not at all).  
I hope in Ignition 8 this will be better… 🙏

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**Author:** ![rpulsifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9a140/32.png) [@rpulsifer](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rpulsifer)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 5:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/font-scaling-seems-to-be-component-dependent/18894/4 "2018-07-19T17:52:20Z")

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I’ve just found that one way to fix it on a windows machine is to set the display scaling to 300%… what this does to other party’s apps and whether my users will switch remains to be seen:

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/d/d2a564767cb412a3c33c009cac66c42ec985314e.png)

Note that the app in question was written with 1366x768 in mind…