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msteffke15-Moonstone
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February 12, 2013
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Font size in embedded browser

  • February 12, 2013
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It was a pleasure to meet some of you at the recent TC conferences in
Boston. I have a user who is complaining that the fonts in his embedded
browser windchill are too small. I went to his computer to check and
sure enough they were smaller than normal. This user does not normally
work at my site. Is there some type of option to control these font
sizes in the embedded browser?
Hes using WF5 on a Win7 64 machine, WC 9.1.
Thanks,
Mark Steffke
Engineering System Administrator
The Delfield Company
Manitowoc Foodservice
T 989.775.9215 or 989.773.7981, ext 12484
Integrity, Commitment to Stakeholders, and Passion for Excellence

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STEVEG21-Topaz I
21-Topaz I
February 18, 2013

I submitted a call and they got back to me with a couple of registry entries for using the scroll wheel. On PTC's site it's Document CS46720. These entries allowed the Ctrl+mouse scroll wheel to increase and decrease the size of text in the embedded browser. Positive.


After restarting Pro/E the size went back to the original size: small. Negative.


Not only that but the entries are only for the scroll wheel. The Ctrl+ and Ctrl- still do not work. Negative.


One other incredible thing is I thought the size in the separate browser might control what is seen in the embedded browser. So I changed the text hight in the separate browser, closed the browserandstarted Pro/E. Text size was unchanged. I opened another browser and the text in the separate browser went back to default. Negative.


Steve Galayda

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ScottPearson1-Visitor
1-Visitor
February 18, 2013
I had the same non-result when hoping that the settings in the
Stand-Alone browser would affect the font size in the Embedded Browser.
No help there.



I'll be installing WF4 m230 as soon as it is released (any day now, per
CS108170?) to see if that build really resolves the problem.



Scott Pearson
Senior Designer

CAD System Administrator

S O U T H W E S T R E S E A R C H I N S T I T U T E(r)
Space Science and Engineering Division
Department of Space Systems
6220 Culebra Road, San Antonio, TX 78238
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egifford12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
February 19, 2013

Does anyone have confirmation from PTC that WF4m230 will be issued? It does not show up on their product calendar (M220 is the last one). When speaking with tech support about another issue with Wildfire 4& Windchill 10 their response was to confirm the bug, but say the fix was to move to Wildfire 5 or a release of Creo. The tech said they were no longer working on patches andwould not be issuing updates forWildfire 4 past M220. Oddly,M230 does show up in Update Advisor.


On the font size issue, we have one user out of 40+ that have reported this. We've tried several things including the reg edits and nothing works. We did find he had set his Windows desktop display to show icons with large text, which seemed to be the trigger in his case. Large desktop text = tiny Pro/E embedded browser text. Normal desktop text = normal embedded browser text. No matter what we did, there was no adjusting the size from the browser (scroll wheel etc). I supposed I could try switching it to the 32 bit version if IE.

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