Industrial automation workstation and display method for scaling and displaying text destined for a target industrial automation device

A display method in an industrial automation workstation for scaling and displaying text destined for a target industrial automation device, comprising:

• in the industrial automation workstation, inspecting operational software to be transferred to the target industrial automation device, the operational software comprising display data including at least one text string;
• in the industrial automation workstation, obtaining a target device dots-per-inch (DPI) for a display device of the target industrial automation device from the inspection;
• in the industrial automation workstation, rendering the at least one text string at the target device DPI;
• in the industrial automation workstation, generating a scaling factor comprising a ratio of a workstation DPI divided by the target device DPI;
• in the industrial automation workstation, scaling the at least one text string using the scaling factor and generate a scaled text string;
• in the industrial automation workstation, displaying the scaled text string on a display device of the industrial automation workstation;
• and
• in the industrial automation workstation, transferring the operational software to the target industrial automation device via the communication interface.

One or more computer-readable storage media having program instructions stored thereon for a display method in an industrial automation workstation for scaling and displaying text destined for a target industrial automation device that, when executed by a processing system, direct the processing system to at least:

• inspect operational software comprising display data including at least one text string;
• obtain a target device dots-per-inch (DPI) for a display device of the target industrial automation device from the inspection;
• render the at least one text string at the target device DPI;
• generate a scaling factor comprising a ratio of a workstation DPI divided by the target device DPI;
• scale the at least one text string using the scaling factor and generate a scaled text string;
• display the scaled text string on a display device of the industrial automation workstation;
• and
• transfer the operational software to the target industrial automation device.