Formatting Issues - Text Jumping Around

[dnolan]

I am having a formatting issue with my Mathcad when files are opened up on different computers. Everyone is using the same version of Mathcad, but if I work on a file and send it to my coworker, when he opens it up, the text and images are all overlapping and moved around.  Has anyone experienced this?

[RichardJ]

It's a well known bug. I think setting the zoom to 100% fixes it.

[dnolan]

Everyone in the office has the zoom set to 100% and we still see this issue.  Is there another setting we can change that might help?

[RichardJ · Accepted solution]

Then I don't know. Zoom seems to have fixed this for some people, not for others. The bug is a really old one that has annoyed a lot of people, but neither Mathsoft nor PTC have ever seen fit to do anything about it. Here's a relatively recent thread:

https://community.ptc.com/t5/PTC-Mathcad/Mathcad-14-and-Windows-7-zoom-resolution-settings/m-p/83652#236665

Here's one from 2005:

https://community.ptc.com/t5/PTC-Mathcad/Alignment-Changes-with-Different-Zoom/m-p/404067#88650

[dnolan]

Thank you for your help, we will give some other solutions a try but it seems that we might just have to deal with it.

[mmills]

To Daniel Nolan:

Thank you for asking the the question .... [between computers using Mathcad] ... the text and images are overlapping and moved around.  Has anyone experienced this?

Yes, we have experienced this and it is a problem.  Still looking for a solution.

To Richard Jackson:  Thanks for the references, they were interesting and gave an idea for elimination of solutions for the problem.

Still looking for a solution to the problem.

As noted, zoom seems to work for some, but not others.  That has been our experience, but not consistently.

PC#1 can create and open file(a) and see a normal view.  PC#2 can open the same file, see an overlapped file, change the Mathcad zoom to 125% and have a normal view.

(From Windows Control Panel, resolution is the same for both PC's, PC#1 has text size set to 125%, while PC#2 is at 100%.)

(Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Display\Screen Resolution  or Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Display)

However for another worksheet, PC#2 can open the file(b) and see a normal view.  But for PC(#1), the view is overlapped and the overlap problem remains no matter how the zoom is changed.

See the screen shot for a sample.

This is more work that Mathcad needs to do on zoom controls and other viewing features.

MGM