Bug: selection not correctly outlined

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I’ve just upgraded to 1.13.0(x64) on a Windows 11 Lenovo laptop. Selections are not displaying correctly (see image) - in this case the selection includes the line beginning with circled “2”. The selection rectangle displayed correctly while I was making the selection, but revisiting it causes it to look like this, with dark shaded areas partially covering the background around the selection.

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Thanks for reporting!

This looks like it’s related to the display resolution settings (and the way they’re reported by the OS). I don’t have access to a Windows 11 device myself, so it would be extremely helpful if you could tell me the following details:

  • What’s your display scaling setting? On Windows 10 I can see this in the display settings in the “scale and layout” section. Typically this should be a value between 100% and 300%.
  • Which zoom setting do you use in Tropy? The current setting is not immediately indicated anywhere, but you can control it via the View menu (zoom in/out and actual size). The current setting is also printed in the log file (if you open it just search for the word “zoom”).
  • Finally, this is a little tricky, but could you tell me the devicePixelRatio reported by the OS to Tropy? Unfortunately we don’t include that in the log (I’ll make a note to add this) so the best way to find out is to enable developer mode in the Tropy preferences (all the way at the bottom) and then select Developer -> Toggle Developer Tools from the menu. In the developer tools switch to the “Console” tab and type devicePixelRatio at the prompt. This should return a number between 1.0 and 3.0.
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I think I’m using the defaults for all these settings. The Windows scale under “scale and layout” is “100% (Recommended)”. My Zotero zoom setting is unchanged: if I click “Actual size” the picture doesn’t change. If I zoom in or zoom out, though, the “shadows” don’t zoom like the document image: they change their size and position relative to the underlying document image. And the devicePixelRatio is 1.

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Thanks! It’s probably not related to the resolution in that case, but I’ve managed to reproduce it at least with some selections. Thanks for reporting this, we’ll figure it out!

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