Customized font size

Capella
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I recently presented a Capella model to my group, and my colleagues had a hard time reading the labels.

A recent discussion pointed out that the font size is hard-coded into Capella.

Before I submit a feature request on Capella’s GitHub page I wanted to check if this changes to default font size are planned in a future release of Capella. Or alternatively, maybe there is a really good reason for leaving the font size fixed, so I might as well not pollute the issues list on GitHub.

As a workaround, and if I feel adventurous, I can just change the font size in the XML file itself :slight_smile:

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To my knowledge, this is not in the roadmap.
A couple of workaround ideas:

  • You can select all elements in a given diagram, and then change the font size manually going to the property views
  • it Won’t be difficult to do a Python4Capella script that would automatically change all the font size in all diagrams.

Stephane

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I am working on Windows 11 with 4K monitors and scaling set to 100%.
Capella Icon size as well as all the menus and fonts are difficult to work with.
I am using other Eclipse based IDE’s, one of which I found reference to a user post pointing to a solution that will allow scalling of most IDE elements, such as icons, menus…

Editing the “Capella.ini” and adding the following parameters help solve some of the issues.:

-Dswt.enable.autoScale=true
-Dswt.autoScale=175
-Dswt.autoScale.method=nearest

While it scale the application properly, it does cause some rendering abberrations of the “Components” objects as seen on this screenshot:

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The layers which make up the object ( background shadow and gradient color forefront) are moving away of each other based on the magnification level.
Any way this can be fixed (workaround or bug fix)?

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Yes, you can look at this thread: Logical Architecture Diagram Component Rendering Issue - #4 by dmccammon
Basically: close Capella - change your screen resolution to 1080p - start capella - change your screen resolution to the one you want/default one