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| ebastler:
--- Quote from: MarkF on January 31, 2016, 04:54:11 am ---I agree that the font is small. But, I believe the real culprit here is the font-family. If you compare the 6's and 9's in this screen capture with the 7x8 pixel Verdana font overlay, you will see that the Verdana font is easier to read even when small. Comparing their 6's, 8's and 9's, you will see that there is only one or two pixels different between them. A font-family where the characters have a larger variation, between the numbers especially, would make a big difference. --- End quote --- Good point. It's also true for the alphabet characters: The measurements, i.e. the smallest text that appears on the scope screen, are the only place where Rigol decided to use a serif font. The serifs waste quite a few pixels and make the main strokes of the characters even smaller and harder to read, at least for me. |
| markone:
Just to complete my lamer list, why the hell the GUI's lateral menus are fixed ? (dunno if already discussed) We are loosing a lot of screen space, in comparison my Atten ADS1102CAL (with Siglent SDS1102CNL FW) renders a much image, intensity gradient absence apart. |
| alsetalokin4017:
--- Quote from: ebastler on January 31, 2016, 08:04:31 am --- --- Quote from: MarkF on January 31, 2016, 04:54:11 am ---I agree that the font is small. But, I believe the real culprit here is the font-family. If you compare the 6's and 9's in this screen capture with the 7x8 pixel Verdana font overlay, you will see that the Verdana font is easier to read even when small. Comparing their 6's, 8's and 9's, you will see that there is only one or two pixels different between them. A font-family where the characters have a larger variation, between the numbers especially, would make a big difference. --- End quote --- Good point. It's also true for the alphabet characters: The measurements, i.e. the smallest text that appears on the scope screen, are the only place where Rigol decided to use a serif font. The serifs waste quite a few pixels and make the main strokes of the characters even smaller and harder to read, at least for me. --- End quote --- Well, just select "Large fonts" in the Measure menu. How often do you really need five measurements displayed on screen simultaneously? But I agree completely, using the serif font in the small measurement display is just asinine. |
| markone:
--- Quote from: alsetalokin4017 on February 01, 2016, 01:17:29 am --- Well, just select "Large fonts" in the Measure menu. How often do you really need five measurements displayed on screen simultaneously? But I agree completely, using the serif font in the small measurement display is just asinine. --- End quote --- :) well, if the problem was only the meas text .... but with have all the rest. |
| alsetalokin4017:
Well, I'm losing my close-focus ability as I age too, but I can't expect everything in the world to accommodate my vision problems, so I wear glasses when I need to see up close. Pretty strong ones too, up to 3 diopters and even more when I'm doing repairs or sewing my socks or something. There is a lot of information on the Rigol screen, some of it unnecessary like the always-on left and right menus. So the fonts have to be small to display all that information. I don't think this is going to change in some "ideal" firmware revision. If you need a larger screen, like on higher-end Keysight or LeCroy scopes, you'll have to pay the price for it. But their fonts are pretty small too. |
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