Words in icon editor get blurry

I had this problem that the words input in icon editor get very blurry out of sudden. It used to be good. Check the picture of my blurry words
Arnold
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I tried, but still nothing happens!
I did some snapshots for you.
Arnold
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Text based VI Icon editor with letter compression

For anyone who is looking for a quick and easy text based icon editor I've posted my latest version in the LAVA CR
http://forums.lavag.org/downloads.html&showfile=56
Description:
This is the second version of my vi icon editor and was created in LV8.2. The purpose is to help quickly create text base icons. The editor can be used in place of the standard NI icon editor or as a stand alone vi. see instructions. My original posting of the icon editor Ver. 1 can be found here
LabVIEW 7.0,7.1 http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?s=&s...ost&p=19022
LabVIEW 8.0 http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?s=&s...ost&p=12920
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Along with the auto drawing and Text compressing from version 1, version 2 has 2 new features.
1: In addition to the 2 color format in version 1 the icon editor now supports a 5 color format (Frame, Header text, Header Back, Body Text, and Body Back). This is the standard frame that many programmers use.
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A graphics picker that would import a list of graphics to choose from
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License:
Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License

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[email protected]
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http://imgur.com/bEOK8gU
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