(RESOLVED) rename of designer stages font in size 50 or more

roy · Post by **roy** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 4:24 am

Hi Yall,
For some unexplained reason my client configuration got messed up,
when I try to rename a stage or link I get a font size of 50 or more, which is to say the least is uncomfortable.
does anyone know the registry entry I need to adjust to get it back to normal?

p.s.
reinstall of the client didn't help

thanks in advance,

peterh · Post by **peterh** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 4:51 am

I experienced the same problem. I did not check it yet but it seems that is a screen resolution problem.

Peter

roy · Post by **roy** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 5:02 am

Hi,
now that you mention it I did change from 32 bit to 16 bit
worth a try
tyvm (thank you very much)
(will update this post if it worked)

alas

changed it back but still same problem

mhester · Post by **mhester** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 6:39 am

Roy,

Check to ensure that your desktop settings under "Settings" for font is set to small and not Large or Other.

This setting cured my problem when I had this pop up one day. Don't know why it happened, just did.

Regards,

Michael Hester

Teej · Post by **Teej** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 6:42 am

mhester wrote:Check to ensure that your desktop settings under "Settings" for font is set to small and not Large or Other.

This setting cured my problem when I had this pop up one day. Don't know why it happened, just did.

Windows XP, I presume?

They have the uncanny ability to spontanously decide that you should use a specific feature in a specific way one day, despite your previous insistence on the opposite.

That's why I prefers W2k.

"Oh no, I know you would rather see those file listing in full icons, not in detail, as you want to set it."

-T.J.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 7:13 am

Has anyone actually read the EULA for Windows XP? It's one of the reasons I won't have anything at all to do with it.
My preference, in fact, is to stay with WinNT 4.0 sp6a, which has proven to be remarkably (for MS

) robust and stable.
But I do like Mac OSX (X.3?)

mhester · Post by **mhester** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 7:54 am

In my response to Roy I should have pointed out that this happened, to me, on a desktop running NT4.0 service pack 6a and had also happened to my Win2k desktop, but has not happened with my XP Pro machine and I have 3 different versions of DS running. Most all of the "quirky" client issues I have encountered have been while running something other than XP.

Regards,

Michael Hester

roy · Post by **roy** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 8:12 am

Thnaks all,
Michael, my setting is normal (lowest it has).
Teej, no need to assume just read the additional info

.

this quirk still saddens me

till I get the registry entry to fix I found a temporary work around of using the property browser.

p.s.
this must be a windows entry since uninstall + registry deletion of all ascential entries + new installed didn't work (or so I think)

I hope to get the answer soon, at least before I loose my mind

(j/k).

Thanks (a solution would be grately apreciated),

mhester · Post by **mhester** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 8:32 am

Roy,

Another option might be to reinstall the fonts from your Windows installation cd. Sometimes the font resolution and the video driver resolution can be out of synch. I think doing this will solve your issue, because as you point out, it is probably not a DS issue.

Regards,

Michael

Teej · Post by **Teej** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 10:05 am

Oi! I am stabbed! Yes, it is a far-fetched assumption which turns out to be wrong.

Sure isn't the first time I have done that.

Honestly, the best question to ask yourself: What changed? Did you install a separate software recently? You noted a resolution change, why was it changed?

-T.J.

roy · Post by **roy** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 10:25 am

Hi,
the only change I made was to lower color resolution in order to maybe save on my pc resources, was a mistake if that did this, then again restoring the setting didn't help.
sigh

Teej · Post by **Teej** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 10:32 am

roy wrote:Hi,
the only change I made was to lower color resolution in order to maybe save on my pc resources, was a mistake if that did this, then again restoring the setting didn't help.
sigh

Is DataStage the ONLY place where you see the unusually large fonts?

-T.J.

roy · Post by **roy** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 8:54 am

as far as I know yes,
the only place it affects if the designer canvas objects

roy · Post by **roy** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 9:07 am

Hi All,
Problem resolved!
Thanks michael

with winXP right click on desktop>settings>advanced
general> in the display section choose Normal Size (96 DPI)
after reboot all back to normal

Thanks alot to everyone

Teej · Post by **Teej** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 11:53 am

Ohhhh, the DPI...

Forgot about that. My ID folks will kill me for forgetting such 'trivial' things.

(They use this feature to ensure that printout would match what they see on the screen).

-T.J.