Are there any scaling problems if i run matlab on a 4k laptop

Are there any scaling issues if i run MATLAB on a 4k laptop screen?

[Aicko Schumann]

Presently, Matlab is really difficult to use on ANY 4k display, because menu font sizes cannot be changed and become almost unreadable tiny (serious design flaw in 2016!!!). There is supposedly a workaround for Windows, but in many more serious research environments Unix/Linux is used and serving those customers has never been Mathworks' priority. A lot of people become really annoyed and I see more and more researchers moving to alternatives. Mathworks should be careful not to follow the IDL path where an unusable IDE killed their sales and gave the then less popular Matlab an edge.

[b b]

It has been over a year since this post. Has the issue been fixed in Windows 10 Creative Update? Is there compatibility issue with 4k display if the Mac version of Matlab/Simulink is used?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Yes, there are. Your success will depend upon which operating system you use and how you have configured your system.

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/153254-matlab-scaling-issue-on-high-resolution-high-dpi-displays#answer_170792

[Guillaume]

Saying that, I've not had any issue with 2015a and 2015b on my laptop (3200 x 1800). OS is windows 7.

Answer 2

[Jessica Piper]

TLDR: If you are a heavy Matlab user and you like to use external monitors with your Windows laptop, DO NOT buy a 4k laptop. You will regret it.

Longer story: I am currently using R2019B on a Microsoft surface book 2 with 4k display, along with two external monitors with 1920x1200 resolution, on Windows 10. It is an absolute nightmare. You can either run Matlab on the laptop with no external monitors, or run it on the external monitors in clamshell mode (laptop case closed) - having all three screens is essentially totally unusable. Among the many problems: Depending on which screen Matlab starts on, the windows may be tiny or huge, or start completely off-screen; some things are really hard to click in 4k because they are pixel based; copying figures sometimes only copies a tiny portion of the figure, and other times creates a tiny copy of the whole figure; font sizes and line widths often get screwed up when converting Office documents to pdf. I have been a Matlab user for over a decade now, and this current setup is the worst performance I have had (which is saying a lot, given the many rendering bugs which Mathworks was seemingly unable to fix in the 2011-2014 time frame). Using Windows with a 4k laptop is bad enough, but Matlab's performance is substantially worse than any other app I use.

[Xin Jin]

Wow, I was trying to buy a 4k for my desktop. Then I heard this scary story from you.

Answer 3

[Daniel Frisch]

For me it worked totally fine with this anwer here!!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50996186/4k-screen-resolution-support-on-matlab-for-ubuntu