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May be this question does not belong to here, but I do not know where to post it.

I am using Windows 10 Pro 64bit and MMA 11.0.1.

My monitor (32inch) has a native resolution of 3820 * 2160 pixels.

When I use an overall screen magnification of 100% the notebook font and the menu items are much too small.

When I increase the screen magnification to 150% or even more the font (independent which one) is extremely blurry.

!!! ALL OTHER WINDOWS AND FONTS IN OTHER APPS ARE SHARP.

Do you have a solution for that, when monitors have 4K?

UPDATE: Answer from a Wolfram Technology Engineer

Mathematica's front-end does not support 4K resolution monitors fully and is known to have some issues when used in 4K resolution monitors. Our developers are currently working on this issue.

mrz
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So this is something I have partially encountered before (though I can't guarantee it will will work for everyone, or even anyone other than me), the first thing I did was to use this tool to fix scaling issues on Win10 (this is an external program, download at your own risk). There is also a possible option modification that may work for you:

  • Open Option Inspector (ctrl shift O)
  • Set to Global Preferences
  • Go to Formatting Options > Font Options > FontProperties
  • Set ScreenResolution to Automatic

Again, there is no guarantee but this is what I have used in the past.

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  • This is genius ... it works for me too ... since 2 years I am suffering with the blurring problem. – mrz Dec 22 '16 at 15:04
  • The only small thing: The input filed in the Mathematica documentation center is not high enough, I entered here Plot: http://i.imgur.com/bIQ54hR.png – mrz Dec 22 '16 at 17:26
  • Yes, that is also an issue, but unfortunately I am not aware of any fixes for it yet. – lowriniak Dec 22 '16 at 17:31
  • I have concurred with others in marking this question as a duplicate. If you agree that it is one what do you think of my Merging this question into that one, which means your answer will be (permanently) moved over there? – Mr.Wizard Dec 22 '16 at 17:36
  • @Mr.Wizard: This is probably a good idea, but please keep that lowriniak solved for me the problem. – mrz Dec 22 '16 at 17:37
  • @lowriniak : When I start MMA and use a magnification of 200% everything is fine and sharp. But how can I start each notebook with this magnification? – mrz Dec 22 '16 at 17:40
  • @mrz I cannot control the Accepted answer; ElOmmy would have to Accept this again and he does not seem to visit the site any longer. I would be glad to put a +50 bounty on this answer to distinguish it if that is agreeable to all involved. – Mr.Wizard Dec 22 '16 at 17:41
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    @mrz Did you try the recommendation in the other Q&A?: SetOptions[$FrontEnd, Magnification -> 2] – Mr.Wizard Dec 22 '16 at 17:42
  • @Mr.Wizard: yes, great this works for all notebooks and it seems to work also after mma is restarted. If I did not overview anything this is perfect and what I wanted. Thank you. – mrz Dec 22 '16 at 21:29
  • @Mr.Wizard: Just a last remark, I believe that all Win users with high resolutions displays should be informed about what lowriniak proposed (as long as Wolfram Research has no better solution ... I asked them about that). – mrz Dec 22 '16 at 21:32
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    (apologies for the delayed response) I'd be happy to do the edits. @mrz to have all notebooks be set to 200% magnification go to Option Inspector, select Global Preferences, go to Notebook options, Display Options, and change the value of Magnification to 2. This means all notebooks will be at 200% by default (notice the popup at the bottom will not change, this is relative to the global value) – lowriniak Dec 23 '16 at 10:13
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Unfortunately, as i know, there is no better solution except get a bigger screen. I met with the same issue, my solution was a 24-inch screen with 1080p resolution.

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