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From: Knute Johnson <groups@585ranch.com>
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Subject: Re: more porting issues to Java 11
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On 5/3/2019 8:10 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
> Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> wrote:
>> The application uses awt & swing components for the GUI, and all
>> windows look distorted, fonts are a bit larger, even images look
>> a bit stretched and moving another window over the jdk 11 application
>> window leaves behind some spurious lines, as if the refresh had off-
>> by-one-pixel inaccuracies.
> 
> It's not yet solved, but I could narrow it down to what system setting
> triggers it:
> 
> In the settings dialog for "Screen Resolution", there is an option
> labelled "Make text and other items larger or smaller", which on my
> desktop was set to 125%.
> 
> Java up to 8 totally ignored that setting.
> Java 11 tries to follow it (which is arguably an improvement), but
>     does so in a somewhat broken way.
> 

I think that change actually came with Java 9.  It is really a big 
improvement for high dpi screens.

k