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Designer: 4k/UHD scaling

Hi there,

 

Just got a new 4k UHD monitor, and found that Alteryx Designer doesn't scale well in default settings in Windows.    Fonts are blurry but icons are the right size.

If instead you change compatabilty mode to allow the application to force scaling, then the fonts and icons end up all different sizes.

 

Could you change the fonts and icons to scale gracefully in Windows 10 to full 4k UHD HDR - especially on the large size monitors (30 inch plus)?

 

 

 

 

Shot 1: default mode - blurry text - badly scaled by Windows 10.    It's not easy to see here because the image is small - but all the text is blurry like a badly blown up BMP file.

scaling2.PNG

 

 

Shot 2: Override Windows 10 DPI scaling and set to "Application" mode

You can see in the picture below that text is now super-sharp but the the play button; save button are all tiny; the fonts are different sizes (look in the properties tab on the left) etc.

 

scaling.PNG

12 Comments
Claje
14 - Magnetar

Not that I will be using a 4K monitor anytime in the near future, but I'd also support having better resolution scaling for UHD!

I want to be able to see pretty workflows rendered in as many pixels as possible.

danielkresina
9 - Comet
I agree on this. Alteryx is the perfect "excuse" needed to get a 4k monitor because due to the visual nature of the workflow layout, it becomes much more efficient when you can see the whole flow at once vs. having to scroll awkwardly around.
EKovalenko
5 - Atom

The issue is there. Hope it will come up in priority list soon.

EKovalenko
5 - Atom

Interesting behavior - on my 4k 27" i put scaling to 200% (which effectively makes it like 1080p) and alteryx is now not blurred at all. So I guess it was designed with 1080p in mind.

CNaykki
5 - Atom

Has there been any updates on this in the past year? I'm working on some monster workflows for a data migration project and will be getting a 32" 4k monitor to be more efficient...is it even worth it at this point with some of the limitations called out above?

jt_edin
8 - Asteroid

Check your windows scaling settings - Alteryx can't cleanly handle anything other than multiples of 100%

 

scaling.PNG

KylieF
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)
Status changed to: Revisit

Thank you for your idea! Our product team has reviewed this idea and cannot place it on the road map at this time. However they would still like to keep it in mind for future road map decisions. We'll update the status of this idea once we are able to term where or if we can place it on the road map.

MarcAlexander
5 - Atom

Just move to 4k myself and on a laptop nonetheless. The UI is so scrambled I cannot even work anymore on the designer.

Top ribbon menu is very bad and I'm just showing on the left an example of what the select tool's configuration panel looks like. Hope this gets fixed soon.

 

Alteryx 4K Resolution Problem.PNG

simonaubert_bd
13 - Pulsar

Hello. One cool thing would be at least to move to svg (or other vectorial format) for every image, icon, etc instead of matricial png :

simonaubert_bd_0-1657873888899.png
This was asked here :
https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Ideas/svg-support-for-icon-comment-image-etc/idi-p...

 

 

abe_ibanez
9 - Comet

So many laptops now a days have 4K displays, specially power user and developer laptops often used by analyst. The blurriness is quite distracting, specially when I have to spend hours working in Alteryx on my laptop :(