Screen scaling overview

Screen scaling ensures that screen content on the target HMI device is sized similar to the content size on the original HMI device when:
  • Changing the target HMI device after creating screens for a project
  • Downloading the project to an HMI device that has a different aspect ratio, resolution, or DPI than the HMI device for the configured project
    TIP:
    The window of the
    View 5000 Client
     does not exceed the size of the screen it is displayed on.
Control how converted screens display in
View Designer
 and how downloaded screens display on the new HMI device by selecting a scaling mode on the
Application
tab of the
Project Properties
 dialog box:
  • Scale with fixed aspect ratio.
    (Default) Resizes the screen content to fill the screen on the new HMI device as much as possible while maintaining the same aspect ratio. If the aspect ratio of the screens changes from regular (4:3) to wide, or vice versa, squares and circles are not elongated into rectangles and ellipses.
  • Stretch to fit
    . Resizes the screen content to fill the screen on the new HMI device. If the aspect ratio of the screens changes from regular (4:3) to wide or vice versa, squares and circles are elongated into rectangles and ellipses.
  • Do not scale.
     Keeps the screen content the same size and position on the new HMI device as the original screens.
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