Is there an HDTV HiRes Large Font Theme?

Thursday, May 24, 2007 by JimRPh | Discussion: WindowBlinds

I hooked my XP PC to a big screen HDTV that requires a very high resolution. Most fonts and icons are too small even with all setting I can manipulate set to large. Is there a WindowBlinds theme that would work for this situation, by offering larger fonts and icons? Thanks!

Jim
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Tigjaw
Reply #1 Thursday, May 24, 2007 6:13 PM
I'm also having the same problem. I'm running my resolution at 1680*1050 and despite still increasing my dpi to 120 the text and icons using any and all window blinds is really tiny, hardy readable at all.

Are there any solutions?

Bebi Bulma
Reply #2 Thursday, May 24, 2007 6:16 PM
Have you tried overriding the default font size in desktop properties > appearance > advanced?

Tigjaw
Reply #3 Friday, May 25, 2007 12:26 PM
Yep I've done that Bulma but it didn't help much, the fonts were ever so slightly bigger but at the same time stretched, almost like bold so that the letters seemed to merge with eachother.
I've managed to strike a comfortable balance by customising the dpi settings but there's still the problem with all the buttons and windows being really tiny.

JimRPh
Reply #4 Saturday, May 26, 2007 12:27 AM
I have set the appearance properties to Extra Large Fonts, but it barely helped. I found scripts online for enlarging text in Firefox and Mozilla, but it's not perfect. I did find an article by Microsoft stating that HD scaling isn't supported until Vista. However, I also found reports from users stating that HD scaling in Vista isn't perfect. I'm afraid what may force me to Vista is the fact that my video card drivers appear to require Vista to enable HDCP (copy protection) to allow me to play HD or Blu-Ray DVDs.

Tigjaw
Reply #5 Saturday, May 26, 2007 7:58 AM
I've tried increasing the DPI settings and changing the font sizing but it completely messed up my computer, the start menu, menu catagories and window text were all different font sizes, it was ridiculous.

Does Window blinds not support resolutions above 1024*768 at all?

I can't believe there's no solution for people with Hires monitors.

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