This is my first post and hopefully it raises an interesting issue.
I am partially sighted and have just got an XDA II. I really like it but I find some of the fonts in some of the applications to be rather small. I know about increasing Font size in Contacts/Calendars/Tasks etc. but I'm thinking more on the SMS/Email inboxes and on the Today screen.
In comparison I have used an SPV E200 which has accessability features available from the Settings menu. I had a large font homescreen set abd large fonts were used throughout the system - it made reading SMS's a breeze.
Is there a awy of increasing the font size througfht out all the applications as the smartphone seems to allow.
At a bare minimum I want to be able to create and read sms and emails using a larger font.
If the system font cannot be increased in these applications, has any one got suggestions for PPC PE applications that I can download and use.
I look forward to the responses.
Regards,
Mike
Yeah you can change everything, font sizes, colors,,, everything..
Download Nyditot Virtual Display (http://www.nyditot.com)
It has an appearance option much like the one in Windows 2000/XP
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OzVGA is totally killing me. I have spent hours trying to make mu ozVGA setting work, but bloody thing is just do small.
After applying the VGA .dll's WHAT OZVGA SETTINGS DO YOU USE???
When i switch from seVGA to ozVGA things just go crazy small.
WHAT'S WRONG???
in oz im using these settings
1200 not bold
1350 not bold
19
19
19
750,900,975,1200,1500
The font arrays relate to the text size slider in the screen settings
I'm using the same font sizes for true VGA and for the qVGA-mode. It means that fonts are small on the screen but oh so beautiful! Larger font sizes just made certain things look ugly, which kinda defeated the purpose of switching to VGA, IMHO.
I guess it depends what you're using your Universal for. Most of the apps I'm using allow me to scale their fonts so when I need larger fonts I can have them. Only the Microsoft apps have unscalable fonts...
Make sure you have the text size set to medium in the Screen control panel applet. I found that it helps to turn Cleartype OFF as well.
And I wear glasses
what about phone app, myne goes all funny, and very small. I can barely see numbers, and the whole keypad just stays at the corner of the screen. that,s abir annoying.
and I think I will have to wear glasses very soon with text size like that.
svyatko - this is all being discussed in the other thread, with suggestions for replacements etc...
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I have the 8525 and my company just allowed me to install Goodlink on it. My biggest complaint is the size of the fonts. They are tiny compared to the regular mobile Outlook fonts. I find that the fonts are too small and it is very difficult to read e-mail and the Calendar today screen plug-in. I have changed the text size in the Good Preferences to "Large" but it helps only a little. Additionally, turning on clear-type helps a little as well. I have found that changing the text size globally for the PPC (from the Screen applet in Settings) increased the size of all fonts BUT Goodlink. Is anyone else having these problems? My eyes are generally OK, so I don't think it's me (and other people whom I have shown it too can't read it at all). Does anyone know of a fix for this? The "Good" people at Motorola haven't heard of this problem and can't offer any solution. I can't believe that I am the only one who is complaining about it. I have also searched around and haven't found anything.
Thanks,
I have the same issue and problem with an HTC Fuze. The Good Launcher fonts are extremely tiny and even with the Large fonts enable on the app as well in settings on the device it is not much bigger. If anyone knows of a hack to change the font size for the good link software it would be very helpful.
What is the setting for in "personilize/FONT"?
I can change there the size but i do not see any effect in the user interface.
how can i make the fonts of the user interface bigger?
Open a word document, type something, look at the font size.
Now close it, change the font settings, reopen the word document, voila! changed. Most things have their font set by the application, (i.e manilla) so they ignore the system font settings.
mostly in wm apps i.e open wm contacts, email etc.
thnaks. i'd like to have a bigger font for the user interface SENSE, also for contacts, sms writing and everything that's possible.
with "personalize/font" no one of those given changes at all on my hd2.
Can i change the font of manila somewhere? i do not see where. it'd be great to give me a hint on that
Hi,
Even getting the user friendly keyboard(paid one) is not tough, but installing it on my HTC toudh diamond2 and getting worked is MUCH MUCH tough and it's annoying so much.
I have purchased and installed SBP keyboard full and it's working fine and I have forced to uninstall many other keyboards due to various issue which I have already posted in different thread (Uninstalled Resco, HappyTyping, TouchPal).
Now my font size is reduced for icons in all the screens. How to increase the font size for all the icons in Start Menu, Personl, System... even the Settings icons font is very small.
Please help on it.
In WM6.5 you can use TD2 Tools 3
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=536410
By this program you can change standart windows menu, fonts size
Not resolved yet. Pls help.
arthurwork,
Thanks for your reply. I have alread have TD2 and now installed TD3. And in UI settings I have changed the default height and width from 800X700 tp 900X800.
Still it's same. the font is very small in my program screen, all settings screen.
After the installing TD3, only difference is the program has four icons in the row instead of three (even though Start Menu Icons per row is "3"). Now, I need to find out how to bring it back to 3 rows per row with the normal font size.
I have installed SIPchange.cab for defaulting the SPB keyboard and after that I am facing this font size issue. But unfourtunately I am not able to uninstall in SIPChange.cab. Whenver, I soft resetting the sipchange is running..i think this application is start running after every reboot. Do you have any idea what sip is for?
Please help to advice why the font/icon size is very small ONLY in All Settings, Programs.
Please help on this.
Can anyone help on this issue.
My screen is looking ugly with 4 rows and smaller font size. Don't know how to bring it back to the default one (3 rows with normal font size).
Tried with TD3/advanced config/ and no use.
Please help on this. thanks
michealjohn said:
Can anyone help on this issue.
My screen is looking ugly with 4 rows and smaller font size. Don't know how to bring it back to the default one (3 rows with normal font size).
Tried with TD3/advanced config/ and no use.
Please help on this. thanks
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=643299
fighter,
thanks a lot. that solved my problem.
Hello all,
So I bought a Dell Venue 8 Pro and so far I really like it.
I have managed to configure the desktop so it is readable through some scaling and text sizes. However, the Modern UI is still very small and I am actually getting a little bit of a headache due to small text and tiles.
I have tried to figure out how to change the scaling and the text size but the "Change the size of apps, text, and other items on the screen" is greyed out. I guess this is due to the screen resolution of the device.
But there must be another way to configure this. I have seen some registry keys which is assosiated with the Modern UI but all these only seems to work with Windows 8.
Any thoughts?
No input at all? It must be possible in some way
olesch said:
Hello all,
So I bought a Dell Venue 8 Pro and so far I really like it.
I have managed to configure the desktop so it is readable through some scaling and text sizes. However, the Modern UI is still very small and I am actually getting a little bit of a headache due to small text and tiles.
I have tried to figure out how to change the scaling and the text size but the "Change the size of apps, text, and other items on the screen" is greyed out. I guess this is due to the screen resolution of the device.
But there must be another way to configure this. I have seen some registry keys which is assosiated with the Modern UI but all these only seems to work with Windows 8.
Any thoughts?
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The only thing that really comes to mind is setting the display resolution lower, but of course that will cost you detail and definition on things that ought to be rendered at high DPI (like text and images).
olesch said:
Hello all,
So I bought a Dell Venue 8 Pro and so far I really like it.
I have managed to configure the desktop so it is readable through some scaling and text sizes. However, the Modern UI is still very small and I am actually getting a little bit of a headache due to small text and tiles.
I have tried to figure out how to change the scaling and the text size but the "Change the size of apps, text, and other items on the screen" is greyed out. I guess this is due to the screen resolution of the device.
But there must be another way to configure this. I have seen some registry keys which is assosiated with the Modern UI but all these only seems to work with Windows 8.
Any thoughts?
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I came across this on Google and just wanted to drop in and +1 this. I have the desktop configured with 150% scaling, but no settings seem to exist to increase the size of everything in the Modern UI. Hopefully someone else will come across this with some kind of solution. Merry Christmas!
I also bought Venue 8 Pro and find this also the only isue. I was googling a lot and it seems Microsoft requires minimum 1440x1080 resolution for 140% scaling in Windows 8. There is no way or hack for now that can go around this isue:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh465362.aspx
Even those hacks with register to make Windows 8 think screen is smaller wouldnt work, because the isue here is resolution not screen size that that hack changes!
Damm Microsoft, why allow tablet makers to use 1280x800 on 8" if you dont support it well!
I Will survive for now, i have good eyes and at least Metro IE browser has its own setting for making at least browsing larger.
This should be a high priority isue, Microsoft is going big with 8" tablets and all the cheap ones Will have 1280x800....
P.S.: 8" Windows 8 tablet still ROCKS. But if possible go buy one with higher resolution(doesnt existt for now).
Edit: I just recalculated the scaling. 1080 height would not help at all, because it is exactly 40% more pixels than 768... So i gues only Microsoft can change this for 8" tablets. Either by making everything bigger(Will make it hard for developers) or more easily by scaling text seperatly.
I've managed to somewhat improve it by scaling Segoe UI font. So now most of Windows UI looks ugly, but more readable.
So what I have now is
1) 150% DPI scale for desktop (Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Display)
2) 150% scaled Segoe UI font
Sometimes these 150% overlap (giving 225% total)
To try this:
1) copy attached fonts to your fonts directory without installing it (use .bat file attached and run it as administrator)
2) let windows use new files instead of original ones (run fonts150.reg or fonts125.reg for smaller scaling)
3) sign out - sign in
nice hack
burma said:
I've managed to somewhat improve it by scaling Segoe UI font. So now most of Windows UI looks ugly, but more readable.
So what I have now is
1) 150% DPI scale for desktop (Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Display)
2) 150% scaled Segoe UI font
Sometimes these 150% overlap (giving 225% total)
To try this:
1) copy attached fonts to your fonts directory without installing it (use .bat file attached and run it as administrator)
2) let windows use new files instead of original ones (run fonts.reg)
3) sign out - sign in
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WOW nice hack you have here! Didn't know you can change font size via font files. Great work on TrueType files man!
Would it be hard to also make a 125 version(so it doesnt stand out that much over still smaller UI.)? I think i could like this hack enough for everyday use!
P.S.: the small "f" on keyboard is wrong, and for .bat i would add in begining this line, so it works for everyone: "cd /d %~dp0"
CommanderThor said:
WOW nice hack you have here! Didn't know you can change font size via font files. Great work on TrueType files man!
Would it be hard to also make a 125 version(so it doesnt stand out that much over still smaller UI.)? I think i could like this hack enough for everyday use!
P.S.: the small "f" on keyboard is wrong, and for .bat i would add in begining this line, so it works for everyone: "cd /d %~dp0"
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Added 125 fonts. Not sure what "cd /d %~dp0" does though, on my computer it just gives "path not found" error
Oh nice, i find the 125% version looking fairly good on my 8" Dell Venue 8 Pro, that is i find it better than default, no matter the smal distortion it causes.
Thanks!
Let us know if you update your fonts file again.
As for your bat file it shows me error "cannot find the file specified" when i run it. But after i add that cd command(without the citation marks) it works fine for me.. That command is supposed to change the dir to "where you are running your .bat file from", works fine for some other .bat files i have..
Burma, Thanks so much for the workaround. Didn't know there is a base UI font and there is mapping between font name and font file. A 25% increase in text size works wonder. I wonder why MS can't get such trivial thing right.
Now if I can find a way to disable the random zoom in/out while scrolling screen in IE!
I got a cheap EC Technology Bluetooth keyboard for $14 from amazon. It works pretty well and avoid having the onscreen taking up a lot of screen real estate.
burma said:
I've managed to somewhat improve it by scaling Segoe UI font. So now most of Windows UI looks ugly, but more readable.
So what I have now is
1) 150% DPI scale for desktop (Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Display)
2) 150% scaled Segoe UI font
Sometimes these 150% overlap (giving 225% total)
To try this:
1) copy attached fonts to your fonts directory without installing it (use .bat file attached and run it as administrator)
2) let windows use new files instead of original ones (run fonts150.reg or fonts125.reg for smaller scaling)
3) sign out - sign in
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It works fine but the resulted font look very bad can you make the some fix but with a different font? e.g. Verdana font I think will look better... anyway great idea! and thank you.
Thanks so much Burma for the fix.
I've tried the windows magnifier, and the experience is awful on a tablet (it works great on any laptop)
I also tried reducing the resolution, but the biggest problem with that is the loss of widescreen because all the resolutions below the 1280 x 800 default are 4:3
I'm glad I only paid $250 for this tablet, i'm not enjoying Windows 8.1 on a tablet (like I do on PCs).