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PCB Designer Professional 17.4 - Menu font too large when using monitors

spencerb

I am having an issue with OrCAD PCB Designer Professional 17.4 - 2019.

Whenever I plug my laptop into my dual monitor display, the menu text in OrCAD PCB Designer Professional becomes very large as shown in the picture.  I have tried recommendations from other forum posts on how to resolve this but they are not working (I added Allegro High DPI Enabled as shown in the picture, for example).  I was wondering if there is a setting in my computer that I need to change or if I can change font settings for menus within OrCAD PCB Designer Professional.

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    Hi Spencerb, I have seen that such cases are almost always resolved by adjusting the Display Resolution in Windows Display settings. Usually a high resolution laptop screen is disproportionately large in size.

    But I don't see your laptop screen in the above image , only two monitors show side by side. Does your laptop screen go blank during the usage of these two monitors? It might make sense to lower your laptop screen resolution first before connecting in that case. Do also restart the Allegro tools to see change take effect. 

  • 0 in reply to John T

    Usually my laptop is closed and I only use my two monitors.  I tried a few things and none are working, see the images.

    Image 1: I turned my laptop screen on in addition to my monitors and kept my laptop's resolution to it standard 3840 x 2400 resolution and 250% scaling

    Image 2: I kept my laptop screen on in addition to my monitors and adjusted my laptop's resolution to match my monitors, 1920 x 1080 resolution and 100% scaling

    Image 3: I disconnected my laptop from my monitors and set it back to its standard 3840 x 2400 resolution and 225% scaling, this worked and OrCAD P.D.P. looks normal

    Image 4: I then plugged my laptop back into my monitors after OrCAD P.D.P. was correctly scaled and OrCAD P.D.P. created new scaling issues

    Also as a note, I also use OrCAD Capture CIS and it never has any resolution issues, always adjusts properly.  Should I being doing something differently? Let me know.

  • 0 in reply to spencerb

    I have see that having a scaling different of 100% broke the display of sub menus; since this i always avoid all scaling except 100%.

    Not same case here but seems related.

  • 0 in reply to spencerb

    Hi SpencerB, have you returned to the recommended scaling as mentioned by jc below? I can reiterate that the text scaling on my laptop and monitors is set to that as recommended by Windows. I have 125% on my high def laptop screen and 100% as recommended for my larger monitors. I would recommend adjusting only the Display resolutions so that the screen sizes look relatively accurate in the OS Display settings graphic. I would not change the scaling.  

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