I'm using Birt 4.5.2 to render some charts for a few reports. When I run the reports locally on my Mac, the fonts in the charts look very nice and render exactly as I expect -- Axes scales, bar chart data points, labels, etc. -- all clear and crisp resolution. However, when I run the report on an AWS Linux instance, all fonts in the generated chart image render extremely poorly. All have the look of a dot-matrix printer -- stair-steppy, no character smoothing.
The generated chart is an SVG and I'm using fonts that are installed on the Linux instance, and I've tried a few different things -- reportContext.getAppContext().put("CHART_RESOLUTION", 300 ); e.g. -- nothing seems to help.
Switching fonts in the chart does not seem to help -- the font changes slightly, but the resolution is still equally bad.
Does anybody know a fix?
Really simple fix after all -- the Report Design ImageDPI property needs to be set to 300. Select the .rptdesign file in the Outline panel. Select the Properties window panel - if it isn't already open, navigate to Window->Show View->Properties.
In the list of properties is an ImageDPI property. Double-click the value and set to 300.
Or, if you want to just edit the raw XML, choose that and search for the <ImageDPI> tag and modify it right there.
Lastly, just make sure that all the fonts you're using in your chart are installed on the AWS instance.
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I've spent some time already searching for an answer. I know that I can increase the text size in an open file, but is there any way to increase the overall UI scaling? I have a large monitor so I can utilize multiple applications in my workflow, but the size of the application text and icons is so small that it's totally unusable.
Here is a comparison between Eclipse on the left and IntelliJ on the right on my screen:
I scaled IntelliJ on the right to be the perfect size, easily, but Eclipse on the left is way too small to effectively work with it.
I've tried removing a line indicating small text in the eclipse.ini file but that didn't change anything.
Given how poorly my search has turned up already, I assume the answer is 'no'. This leads me to ask, how is this possible? How can such a sophisticated and popular application not be able to change the UI scaling? I feel as though there must actually be a reasonable explanation because this is just plain absurd. This can't be passed off as a legitimate piece of software in this day and age without flexibility on screen size.
Thank you.
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I'm still unable to update the size of the UI icons. I've searched through numerous other issues going through the "-Dswt.autoScale=200" options in the elipse.ini setting but this is not working on Mac. Anyone able to assist here? Thank you!
The "Tree and Table font for views" setting in the "General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts" page of the Preferences sets the size of Project Explorer view. That entry is in the "View and Editor Folders" section.
Icons are only scaled if the display is set up as scaled by x2 or x1.5.
I have been trying numerous editors, from Inkscape, to online converters, to MS store apps, etc.
All I'm trying to do is find an easy way to create either transparent PNG files or SVG files for the activitybar icon inside of VS Code for an extension I'm working on.
Everything I've tried either totally warps the dimensions of what I create and seems to blow the image way up inside the activity bar, even though the files I'm saving as PNG are all 128px x 128px with 32 bit depth, same as another that ships with examples from https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-extension-samples/tree/master/tree-view-sample
What I see in VS Code after specifying the path in the extension package.json:
What I am trying to get it to look like:
I've tried using SVG viewer plugins for VS Code as well, and sometimes the SVG's I've used don't even show up, even though an item does exist in the activity bar when I hover over the position it should be in.
Any modicum of help would be appreciated.
I have a fixed shell sized (800x600) application developed in SWT. The issue is, if I change the display settings of Windows ( from smaller - to medium/larger ) few parts of the application are being truncated.
So is there any way I can give dynamic size based on the selection of display settings ?
A fixed shell size is very seldom the right way to go. Instead, use the layout to set the constraints and let SWT figure out the size. That will make it more likely that dpi changes will work correctly and more likely that the app will look correct on other operating systems or different versions of Windows.
Recently I have got a new 22" monitor. Finally it's possible to keep all needed windows in Eclipse open while having the main editor window wide enough to display all 120 columns. Problem now is when I wide up or narrow down windows on the left or right side of the editor. Editor's width narrows down or wides up. I'd like to set its width fixed to some value and let the other windows 'breathe' in width.
Take a look at the illustration.
You should rather use detached views, that way your main editor is not affected by the other windows resize operations.
(source: eclipse.org)
Either that, or use fast views, which minimises the views down to an icon that can be conveniently popped up when you need to use them. This is especially handy for things like the JUnit test view, as suggested by the JUnit Eclipse documentation
http://help.eclipse.org/help32/topic/org.eclipse.jdt.doc.user/gettingStarted/qs-junit.htm
Is there an app that can change the order of images inside an icon?
Thanks!
What you'll need to do that is a resource editor. A google search will reveal many free ones out there. The restorator is a great one, but not free and over-priced IMO.
Any decent resource editor will allow you to see icons in the exe or dll and save them or replace them. I don't know of any that will allow you to reorder them, but just about any out there would allow you to save the icons out and then replace them back in the exe/dll in whatever order you'd like.
The only resource editor I know of that will allow you to re-order the embedded icons including png compressed vista icons is Resource Tuner Console.
You can change the image order using Pixelformer (an icon/bitmap editor). Import the icon, reorder the images as you wish, then export it back.
Using a resource editor is not an easy way to do this because you have to edit both ICON and ICON GROUP and I tried to do this with Resource Hacker and could not do it.
I found Easy Icon Maker is able to rearrange the order of the icons properly... it's the only icon editor that I found with this option, and I tried about half a dozen. The editor itself is not nearly as good as IcoFX (http://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/icofx_portable)
Why would you want to do this? Well there are certain times when Windows will use the first icon file that matches the size, but this may not be the color-depth that you want... for instance if you are on an older machine like Windows 2000 that doesn't support Alpha Channels then putting these at the beginning of your ICO file will cause Windows 2000 to try to render it so it results in black dots all over the image.