Font size on Windows 7 with LabVIEW 2009

[zenthoef]

Duplicate post?

[Stranman]

I wish it was that simple, but I've been set to 100% (default) view size and my text DPI setting is 9pt at 96DPI with "WindowsXP style DPI scaling" enabled and I still have issues.

[Ben]

In my opinion...

The font issues with LV under Windows & is a bug.

If my customer moved my app from XP tp Win 7 and saw the same thing, they would call it a bug.

If you opened Excel and the drop-down menus could not display the full text we would call it a bug.

So in my book this is a bug!

Please NI, fix this problem and stop blaming Windows.

Until this gets fixed LV is going to keep looking like crap.

Ben

BTW: I think this is a bug.

[AlanSpectrumControls]

What I have done, is to manually add these three lines of text to the .ini file:

appFont="Tahoma" 13
systemFont="Tahoma" 13
dialogFont="Tahoma" 13

It is very annoying, but seems to take care of it.  Earlier I reported that this did not work for me.  I was mistaken.  It makes the 50+ exe's I distribute to our techs look good.  Really glad I am not distributing exe's outside our company.

Alan

[caleyjag]

Any update on this?

I'm bouncing code back and forth between XP and Windows 7 on a daily basis. The two machines cannot have their operating systems matched due to current corporate policy - one is my office machine and one is in the laboratory running equipment, so they fall under different jurisdictions. I can forget about challenging the corporate policy.

Using LabVIEW 2011 on both.

The tips and tricks described on here don't seem practical as I don't have time to re-size fonts every time I bounce the code between machines. In short, I need LabVIEW to work the same and my front panels to look the same regardless of the OS.

What's the NI solution?

[RavensFan]

You need to define your LabVIEW.ini on both machines to use specific fonts rather than the OS defined fonts.

[TimGFellows]

Having battled with this problem myself for some time, I have just found that Calibri seems to work.

[Stranman]

Spoiler

The only problem with Calibri is that it is not a standard font installed in WinXP; Tahoma is.

If the XP machine does not have >= MS Office 07 installed, you will have to download the Calibri font and install it yourself onto the XP machines.

I've been using the fix Alan suggested above on my Win7 machines and all seems to be good in the world.

[rthorpe]

Have National Instruments fixed this bug on versions of LabVIEW after 2010?

I just moved a lot of VIs from Win XP to Win 7 and it's mangled them.

As other posters have said, LabVIEW is supposedly to be a portable language. How can it be portable if the the same front panel doesn't work the same way on two slightly different versions of Windows?

[rthorpe]

I've tried a couple of the suggestions from this thread. I've put the font size in the general Windows setting to 100%. In LabVIEW.ini I've put:

appFont="Tahoma" 13

systemFont="Tahoma" 13

dialogFont="Tahoma" 13

This still doesn't work though. In block diagrams the text of every object is much larger than in was in Windows XP.