That was very confusing.DPI scaling is a critical consideration when using high-resolution monitors (over 1920x1080) with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. The earlier comment about it looking better when booting a Mac with Windows, and then the comment about TVPaint not looking pixelated on one of the TVPaint office iMacs. That's what I figured was happening with the interface all along, but some of the comments in this thread made me think TVPaint's interface was capable of displaying perfectly on a 5k screen. It's just that the 1:1 setting gives you a smaller display now since each pixel of the bitmap is mapped exactly on 1 pixel of display. (Some software has this setting in its prefs, other software uses the system-wide scaling.) This means each pixel of the UI elements is displayed on 2x2 or 3x3 pixels of the device, giving it a useable size again. The other way is simpler: software tells system to scale it's appearence by a factor of 2 or 3. One is to have the whole software redesigned, give it a second set of icons and interface elements in the new size, and program a routine which detects the correct screen resolution to display the right set of UI elements (this is what Adobe does. Now to get the UI elements in useable (readable!) size on these new devices again, there's 2 ways. Older software is displayed half size on these screens, naturally, because the UI was never meant to get scaled - it was optimized for a certain size. The pixels of these devices were only half the size or even smaller than pixels on older screens. Then came along the first "Retina" displays, and those 4K or even larger screens. Software UI were designed to look good and useable at that size. Some time ago, computer monitors were manufactured more or less all in the same range of screen resolution, which means a pixel had a defined real world size. I'm seeing the same thing Johannes posted in his pictures.
Okay, I tried setting the scaling to 2 and it made everything very large and there was pixelation. Preferences under TVPaint Animation 11 Pro are greyed out - that's what I was looking at.
I have found them under Edit > Preferences. Never mind about the preferences being greyed out. I will be interested to see if this topic is resolved. I'm glad this topic came up because with the way the interface looks a bit fuzzy I've avoided putting much thought into buying the program and have gravitated to some of the other software. But the Demo version doesn't let me adjust my preferences for scaling. I'm an old Mirage user and I've only been tinkering with the TV Paint Demo version over many years. All of my other applications like Adobe CC, Clip Studio, Moho, and Harmony are all very clear and look nice. Everything is slightly pixelated when I look at the interface close up.
I am also having this exact problem on a 5k iMac.
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