Scribus 1.4.6 unusable on HiRes laptop monitors

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Petar_MK

Hi,
I've just installed Scribus, but I can't use it because it does not supprt HiRes monitors. Icons are too small, rulers are unreadable...
Here is my laptop's specification:

Dell Inspiron 7559 i7
Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M )
16GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600MHz (8GBx2)
1TB HDD + 128 GB SSD Hard drive
UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED- Backlit Touch Display
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4GB GDDR5

Windows 10 x64

GarryP

Welcome to the forum Petar_MK.

Unfortunately, as you have seen, Scribus currently isn't much good with hi-res displays. Even on 1080p displays the icons are a little bit too small, never mind on 4K.

The problem has been around for a while and there is a solution http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/highdpi.html but it can only be addressed if the developers adapt the code (and I've no idea if it covers Linux which is a significant Scribus user base).

The quick fix that's available seems to have display issues that probably won't be good for a graphical application like Scribus so a lot of the code would need to be properly adapted and tested.

Having said that, if you'd like to help with testing a version that can cope with hi-res I'm sure the developers would like to hear from you (although I've no idea if they have plans for one at the moment).

Petar_MK

I tested it with 1.5.2 version. It is the same problem. Yes, I would like to help/test it in my spare time.  :)

a.l.e

i don't think 1.4.x will ever get hdpi (i don't know either if qt 4 has support for it).

1.5.3svn has already some bits in (thanks to the HOST project in oman!).
but it's not there yet.

a.l.e

ah, and of course: you're help is welcome!

but you should the install 1.5.3svn.
you can have both 1.5.2 and 1.5.3svn installed on the same machine (and of course also 1.4.x).

Petar_MK

Please, link to 1.5.3svn. I can't find it.
Thank you.

a.l.e

that's easy :-)

https://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-svn/1.5.3.svn/

https://launchpad.net/~scribus/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

https://bintray.com/probono/AppImages/Scribus

https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus_and_Homebrew

and last but not least:

https://github.com/orgs/scribusproject/dashboard

there are probably more such links for specific cases...


as you see, getting the current code is much easier on linux or os x...
it's a bit more cumbersome on windows.
(basically, for windows, you then have to get the latest binary in the first link above)

ciao
a.l.e


Spratzt

Just registered to make the same comment.

Basically Scribus is completely unusable on any high-res screen.

Reluctantly had to uninstall it.

leafit

Has anyone have tried using this method: http://www.danantonielli.com/adobe-app-scaling-on-high-dpi-displays-fix/

Someone commented on there that it works for Scribus. But when I tried it, I keeping getting an application error.

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GarryP

Welcome to the forum leafit.

It would be interesting to hear from more people who have tried this, either successfully or unsuccessfully.
My displays are only HD so I have small icons that are a bit difficult to use, but they're still mostly usable so I won't be trying the procedure.

A quick search for your problem brings up a probable issue with 32/64-bit DLL mismatches - e.g. a 32-bit application trying to load 64-bit DLLs - but that's outside of my technical area.

jomei

Thanks a lot for the solution ( http://www.danantonielli.com/adobe-app-scaling-on-high-dpi-displays-fix/ ). It perfectly works for me on my 4k notebook (HP).

@ leafit: Scribus.exe.manifest instead of scribus.exe.manifest?

I am on Windows10 64Bit and Scribus 1.5.2

leafit

Quote from: jomei on September 03, 2017, 10:29:33 PM
Thanks a lot for the solution ( http://www.danantonielli.com/adobe-app-scaling-on-high-dpi-displays-fix/ ). It perfectly works for me on my 4k notebook (HP).

@ leafit: Scribus.exe.manifest instead of scribus.exe.manifest?

I am on Windows10 64Bit and Scribus 1.5.2

Hello jomei,

Still the same error.

Windows10 64Bit and Scribus 1.4.6


@GarryP:Thank you.

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