Windows Store App Font-Size Rendering Problem

Question

Hello everyone, 

I'm having some problem with Windows rendering a text. We set the font-size to 16pt. But when we send the document to a desktop publishing software application , the text is "smaller". We think that the Software (application.png) is rendering properly the font, but, somehow, Windows8 (windowsStoreApp.png) is displaying wrong the font Size.

If you know something about this issue, or have some idea, I would appreciate any help.

  

application.png

windowsStoreApp.png

Thanks in advance 

Answer 1

Hi David,

"But when we send the document to a desktop publishing software application" How you send the document to a desktop application?

You mean use Windows.System.Launcher.launchFileAsync(file)?  

--James

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Answer 2

Hi James,

we send the document as an xml, this is not the problem. The problem is how we render the texts and the images.

We tried to  use the msZoomTo() function, 

//Div 
 var divId = document.getElementById("document");
           
  divId.msZoomTo({
      scaleFactor: 2.0,
      contentX: divId.style.left/2,
      contentY: divId.style.top/2,
                         
 });
           

but we want to directly apply  zoom on the  div, and not to link this to a mouse event or whatever.

Is that possible?



Thanks in advance,

Answer 3

U can try to set same size in px - css file... if i understand the question :/ And maybe you can do zoom with css too.

And try with reset css or something to see if font was normalized.

...or try to debug it with DOM explorer... :/

Answer 4

Agree, directly apply another CSS style with bigger/smaller font size might be better if you think the original size is not good enough.

But I still wondering why the font size is different from Store App and Desktop, did you apply some dpi changes on your desktop? More information see here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/03/21/scaling-to-different-screens.aspx

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