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FreeCAD Font Size, Much Smol

As mentioned in my post about the weye eye mask, I struggle with dry eyes. This leads to bad, sometimes, terrible vision. Which, in turn, means I need to bump up font sizes from time to time.

When trying FreeCAD 1.1 Release Candidate 2, even after fiddling with the various font settings, the text on the Task tree (?) was miniscule even when all the other fonts were comfortable to read. After a bit of digging, I found a solution from 2022 by mario52 on the FreeCAD forums. And it works!

In case of linkrot or similar, below are the steps I took (on a Mac).

  1. Right-click on the FreeCAD app in the Applications folder, and select Show Package Contents.
  2. Navigate to the Contents → Resources → Mod folder.
  3. Create a new folder called HighRezMonitor
  4. Create a new file called initgui.py Inside the HighRezMonitor folder.
  5. Paste the following code into the initgui.py and save it.
# https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9662&start=10
# creer un repertoire "HighRezMonitor" dans "C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Roaming\FreeCAD\Mod"
# creer un fichier "InitGui.py"
# collez le code:
#
from PySide import QtGui
f=QtGui.QApplication.font()
f.pointSize()                   # returns e.g. 8
f.setPointSize(16)              # nouvelle dimension
f=QtGui.QApplication.setFont(f)

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  1. Start (or restart) FreeCAD. Be able to read text.

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