topic Re: Font size is huge in enhanced editor in SAS Enterprise Guide

Font size is huge in enhanced editor

Chris3 — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 19:53:52 GMT

Hi: I just installed Enterprise Guide on a new computer. The font size is huge in the program editor and the slide bars to move vertically and horizontally are huge too.

I tried clicking in a program and then Program, Editor Options, Appearance, and setting the text to Size = 8. But the text is still too big.

Thanks a million for any advice!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Font size is huge in enhanced editor

ballardw — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 20:06:10 GMT

I would recommend looking at the editor scheme drop down list and pick one. The approach you used would only effect one type of text, the comments.

Also, if you changed the screen resolution to something a bit coarser than when SAS was installed you could get this appearance issue.

Re: Font size is huge in enhanced editor

SASKiwi — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 20:19:07 GMT

Is this EG 7.12 by any chance with the zoom capability? Have you tried "unzooming"?

Re: Font size is huge in enhanced editor

Chris3 — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 20:25:06 GMT

Thank you for your suggestion! I created a new editor scheme and altered all the file elements (comments, etc.). Unfortunately, that did not work. And I am using the same screen resolution as when I installed.

Re: Font size is huge in enhanced editor

Chris3 — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 20:25:38 GMT

No, I am using 6.1.

Re: Font size is huge in enhanced editor

ChrisHemedinger — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 14:57:50 GMT

Do you have a custom DPI setting for your Windows system?

Right-click on desktop, select Screen Resolution. In the Display settings, look at the "Set custom text size (DPI)" option.

Try to toggle the "Windows XP style DPI scaling" and see if that helps.

And from @RandyMullis :

This information might help you if you are having font size issues with SAS Enterprise Guide:

http://support.sas.com/kb/56/015.html

Re: Font size is huge in enhanced editor

Chris3 — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 20:08:26 GMT

Thanks a million for the suggestion! Yes, that is probably as close to a solution as I can find. Unfortunately, when I get the size of SAS to display in a normal manner on an external monitor, it makes the size of programs on my laptop screen really small. I appreciate the help!!

Re: Font size is huge in enhanced editor

mfab — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 09:26:25 GMT

Just leaving this here, in case anyone will run into the same trouble like I did randomly this morning:

Should you have this problem, although you are not using a custom DPI, then by any means go the ususal Microsoft way...

Do enter a custom DPI setting, log out, log in and then remove the custom DPI setting again, log out, log in.

And you should be good to go.

Re: Font size is huge in enhanced editor

SASKiwi — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 02:44:09 GMT

@mfab - Had this problem with Windows 10 and your fix works for that too.

Re: Font size is huge in enhanced editor

CaseySmith — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 05:21:45 GMT

This issue (large font size in program editor and big scroll bars when running with larger DPI settings) has been resolved in EG 7.15 HF1.

Re: Font size is huge in enhanced editor

RandyMullis — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 18:29:50 GMT

Here's a link to a SAS Note providing additional details to the fix mentioned by @CaseySmith:

http://support.sas.com/kb/56/015.html

Randy

Re: Font size is huge in enhanced editor

rebecca_fan — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 16:44:24 GMT

I just had similar problem after IT installed the updated EG, the display font for both my program and output are too big and difficult to view. Tried what people suggested but doesn't really fixed the problem:

1. Change the window system display resolution - this might fixed the SAS viewer problem, but it also makes other program(s) font display really small (yes everything including your desktop view)

2.Program --> Editor Options -->'Appearance' tab --> edit font size - this fixed my program viewer panel, but font in my result viewer panel is still huge (not sure why)

So finally I found View--> Zoom option, which is so much simper than the previous two solutions, and I can even apply different zooms( 10-500%) to my program/log/result display, problemssolved!

Re: Font size is huge in enhanced editor

GeorgeSAS — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 14:11:07 GMT

2.Program --> Editor Options -->'Appearance' tab --> edit font size - this fixed my program viewer panel, but font in my result viewer panel is still huge (not sure why)

-------------this works for me,thanks!

but I can't find the zoom option in view which you mentioned in the final.

Re: Font size is huge in enhanced editor

RandyMullis — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 14:24:31 GMT

This information might help you if you are having font size issues with SAS Enterprise Guide:

http://support.sas.com/kb/56/015.html

Thanks,

Randy

Re: Font size is huge in enhanced editor

medwards127 — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 17:59:06 GMT

Works for me. We're on SAS EG 17.13. Smallest size is 8.