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Data Set displays incorrectly since upgrade

Asked by Michael Halifax

I am working on upgrading my Xibo environment from 1.4.2 to 1.6.4. I was able to clone my 1.4.2 server and change the name etc and make a new server so my prod enviroment is still untouched. I completed the update and installed the new client on my windows workstations and ubuntu workstations but layouts that had text regions, especially datasets don't display correctly the font size is huge.

System information: Prod Environment Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server, Xibo 1.4.2, Windows Clients
New server: Clone of Prod environment updated to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Xibo 1.6.4, Windows and Ubuntu Clients

Did 1.6.4 change how it handles CSS for datasets? Here is the CSS that works in my 1.4.2 environment.

table.DataSetTable {
font-family:"Tahoma";
width:100%;
height:100%;
border-collapse:collapse;
}

tr.HeaderRow {

}

tr#row_1 {
color:#ffffff;

}

td#col_1 {
color:#ffffff;

}

td.DataSetColumn {
font-family:"Tahoma";
color:#FFFFFF;
font-size: 15px;
font-weight:bold;
padding-right: 5px;

}

tr.DataSetRow {font-family:"Tahoma"; color:#FFFFFF; font-size: 15px; font-weight:bold;

}

th.DataSetColumnHeaderCell {

}

span#1_1 {

}

span.DataSetColumnSpa

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Dan Garner (dangarner) said : 		#1

1.6.4 did change the way layouts were scaled so that the font sizing that appeared in the designer was scaled up to fit in the end display.

In theory (as near as possible) if you have a "Welcome to Blah" text that fits exactly on your layout in the designer - it should fit exactly on your layout on the screen.

So your 15px font size is likely scaling up by the difference between the layout designer and the end screen

e.g. 1920/800 would be a scaling factor of 2.4 (15px becomes about 36px - it actually gets zoomed to 2.4 of its original size)

We tried to upgrade the text as best we can - but it was very difficult to make a sensible decision - impossibly so with the embedded CSS of a dataset.

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Michael Halifax (halifaxm-5) said : 		#2

Thanks for the update and the information Dan. If I remove all font size settings and let it try to autosize, it looks fine in the design view, but on my Windows client the font is HUGE and only show's about 1/16th of the dataset. So then I bumped font-size to 14px and it all fits but the font edges are very jagged. Have you seen or heard of this behavior?

Mike

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Dan Garner (dangarner) said : 		#3

Is your windows client an XP client by any chance?

Unfortunately XP isn't compatible with the new scaling mode due to the hard limit at IE7. We are solving this problem in 1.7 by replacing IE as the default rendering engine for content.

You can use 1.4.2 client with 1.6.4 server, although you wont get the new features.

I think you might be limited to 1.4.2 until we get 1.7.0 released properly.

Sorry!

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