Print out and Screen Zoom Faktor 3

[Christoph_B]

Hi all,
I have a problem with the screen scale value in Windows and the printer output scale. Some of my users are using a screen scale of 125%. In this case, the output of a report of an Foxpro applicastion is also scaled to 125% and the output doesn't fit to the paper size.
Is there an option to create the print out independent of this screen scale factor?

KR
Christoph

 

[Premal Vala]

Hi Chris,

I faced this issue but was able to solve by windows High DPI settings. You can set "High DPI Scaling Override" feature. Right click on your program icon and click properties and then select "Change High DPI Settings" and tick "Override high DPI scaling behavior. Scaling performed by Application.

See below screenshot. This should resolve your problem.

 

[Christoph_B]

Hi Premal,

thx a lot. Super.

KR Christ

 

[Chris Miller]

We discussed dpi awareness a lot in recent weeks and months and the problem I have with this exe property setting is that it doesn't copy when you copy the exe elsewhere, which makes me think it also won't get into a setup you do for an EXE with that property.

MS mentions dpiawareness can be put into an exe manifest and you can easily embed a manifest differing from the standard VFP executable manifest by creating a projectname.manifest file in the project directory and do a build. See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sbscs/application-manifests?#dpiAwareness

There's deeper discussion about this at an older thread https://www.tek-tips.com/threads/dpi-awareness-manager-questions.1821313/

I'd always recommend using atlopes dpiawareness manager at https://github.com/atlopes/DPIAwareManager.
And, yes, this does not only affect screen display, that also affects printing.