Opened 14 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

#5604 reopened Bug report

FileZilla client is not high-DPI aware on Windows — at Initial Version

Reported by: Keith MacDonald Owned by:
Priority: normal Component: FileZilla Client
Keywords: DPI scaling Cc:
Component version: Operating system type: Windows
Operating system version: 7

Description

FileZilla is not high-DPI aware on Windows 7 or Vista. This means that if you set your PC's display resolution to the maximum supported, and compensate for the resulting small default GUI font by increasing the DPI setting, FileZilla's text is blurred because it is raster scaled. This is explained in the following tutorial:

​http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd464659(VS.85).aspx

To reproduce on Windows 7:

  1. Right click the desktop and choose Screen Resolution.
  2. Make sure that it is set to its recommended value.
  3. From Control Panel, choose Display.
  4. Under "Make it easier to read what's on your screen", select "Larger - 150%".
  5. Click Apply.
  6. Log off and log on again.
  7. Start FileZilla and observe that the text on its UI is blurred.

The solution may be as simple as linking in the attached manifest file and testing that all text still fits in objects such as buttons, so I hope you'll try it. It'll help those of us getting presbyopia to put off the day when we need spectacles to read the screen!

Change History (1)

by Keith MacDonald, 14 years ago

Attachment: DeclareDPIAware.manifest​ added

Linker manifest file

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