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Operating systems like Windows or macOS support scaling for displays with high DPI (else the application window would be tiny). But if the application isn't aware of this (and not able to scale by itself), the operating system will do it for the application. The result is a blurry application when the scale factor is to high (standard for 4k is about 300% scale).
As there are increasing numbers of displays with high DPI the lack of support for this scaling features in Notes leads to a unsharp, blurry application UI which looks aweful.
Clarification (as demanded): I'll try to clarify this issue, but the comments are worth reading, they explain the issue very well. So, in simple terms:
The issue is that the text is blurry if Windows is scaled to anything other than 100%, eg. 150%.
As an example, 300% is the default scaling factor in Windows 10 for a 4K notebook display on a 13" device.
There is another "workaround" by overwriting the scaling behavior of the application, but this works just to up to 150% for Notes:
https://www.dominopoint.it/dominopoint/dominopoint_blog.nsf/dx/notes-w-windows-10-appare-sfuocato
This issue has to be fixed ASAP.
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The issue is that Notes, Designer, and Admin all need to be updated so they are intelligent for different monitor DPIs and high-resolutions.
Here is a story of how this happens, and why the manifest work-around doesn't always work:
http://mattwhite.me/blog/2016/1/8/superb-fix-for-high-dpi-problems-with-notes-and-windows
Here is another attempt to deal with it via the manifest approach:
https://superuser.com/questions/1086279/ibm-domino-administrator-issue-with-high-dpi-display
This has the manifest "fix" documented well, but it doesn't always work across all MS Windows 10 installs.
Here is one of the old closed IBM tickets, where it was closed w/o resolution. Other than we aren't going to fix it in the near future:
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1LO86603
This is a general 72/96 dpi issue; as we go to hi resolution monitors with lots of pixels in a denser dpi format, the old 10pt font now appears to be around 4pt. The scaling options 125%, 150%, etc. don't scale well and you can have blurry text. It's not just Notes, it's all older programs, see this general Lenovo discussion:
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-T400-T500-and-newer-T/T460-Blurry-display-and-scaling-issues/td-p/3368509
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