If you are running a PC with a high resolution screen (pretty much any high end laptop these days for example), you’ll have experienced the issue where the scaling of text, images and icons in the Notes and Designer clients is awful to the point of being unusable.
Dan Anonielli has come up with a solution which seems to work very well for me at least: http://www.danantonielli.com/adobe-app-scaling-on-high-dpi-displays-fix/
The basic idea is that when an application launches, Windows asks it if it is high DPI aware. Notes (well Eclipse), claims that it is and so Windows believes it and we get the resulting mess. But with the new registry entry mentioned in the blog above, we tell Windows to first look for an external manifest file that can override this default. So we can tell Windows that Notes is not high DPI aware and so Windows handles the scaling for us.
It’s not a perfect solution, but until Eclipse / IBM come up with something better then it’s a good fix.
Edit 23rd May 2016: I had cause to come and revisit this issue thanks to a customer and found that the solution above didn’t always work and I couldn’t find the reason. However, if you install 9.0.1 FP4 or higher then you should find that things are a lot better than they were. Still not perfect, but usable at least.
This is excellent. I’ve had a ticket open with IBM on this for 3 months, no progress.
This is excellent. I’ve had a ticket open with IBM on this for 3 months, no progress.
Hi Matt,
This didnt really make any difference for me, did you have any trouble getting it to work? I’ve added/updated the manifest file to any notes related exe I could think of. Also I’m mostly interested in the sametime chat window, do you use sametime?
Cheers
Hi it just worked for me. I don’t use same time I’m afraid.
Cheers Matt, I’ll recheck what I’ve done but i wonder if it doesn’t work for sametime anyway
What exe file should this be added to ?
I added it to notes.exe
IBM Notes/Des/Admin 9.0.1 FP6 – the solution didn’t help. Tried everything possible, almost with all exe-files. No effect. Also tried to pass java param (sun.java2d.dpiaware=false) to JVM – didn’t get any success (probably even with passing param to Notes JVM)…
So Designer and Administrator still look ugly…
Any ideas on this so far???
Craig Wiseman, is it any from IBM on your ticket?
Thanks!
I installed the 9.0.1 FP5 and it is a little better, but the SameTime client is unusable.
I’m not able to make the manifest trick work… tried with multiple .exe files and not effects on Notes or Sametime. Did somebody came up with a trick that works?
Thanks
Hi,
Just to let you know, this guy made my day:
http://www.polymorph.co.uk/content/blog-posts/fix-for-lotus-notes-display-issues-on-surface-pro-high-dpi/
This is the only thing that worked for me, I needed to share!