# Improper display size of entities when opening on Mac

**URL:** <https://forums.visual-paradigm.com/t/improper-display-size-of-entities-when-opening-on-mac/18227>\
**Category:** UML\
**Tags:** erd\
**Created:** [October 12, 2023, 8:56am UTC](https://forums.visual-paradigm.com/t/improper-display-size-of-entities-when-opening-on-mac/18227 "2023-10-12T08:56:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![mariap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v2/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@mariap](https://forums.visual-paradigm.com/u/mariap)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2023, 8:56am UTC](https://forums.visual-paradigm.com/t/improper-display-size-of-entities-when-opening-on-mac/18227/1 "2023-10-12T08:56:14Z")

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Hi,

I bump into the following problem when opening a file on MAC that was created on Windows using the same version of VP:  
On Windows, entities are displayed correctly with all columns, including Null. However, on Mac, the size of some of the entities decreases, and the Null column is hidden. When I manually expand these entities, the Null column appears but the connections become messy.  
I checked my presentation options, grid - width and height, and everything seems to be correct.  
Does anyone knows how to resolve this issue? We will have many more files transfers from Window to Mac and vice versa.

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**Author:** ![Rain](https://forums.visual-paradigm.com/user_avatar/forums.visual-paradigm.com/rain/32/2309_2.png) [@Rain](https://forums.visual-paradigm.com/u/Rain)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2023, 9:12am UTC](https://forums.visual-paradigm.com/t/improper-display-size-of-entities-when-opening-on-mac/18227/2 "2023-10-12T09:12:25Z")

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This problem is caused by Java on Mac and Window do have variation on font rendering. The article describe this issue in details and suggest the workaround on this issue. Hope this can help.

> **[How to unify the look of your diagrams across OS - Visual Paradigm Know-how](https://knowhow.visual-paradigm.com/diagramming/unify-diagrams-across-os/)**
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> Visual Paradigm is a cross platform modeling tool which can work on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X as well as Linux. User’s project can be opened between different OS without loss of data, and teams with multiple OS can also work together. But in some...

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**Author:** ![mariap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v2/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@mariap](https://forums.visual-paradigm.com/u/mariap)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2023, 11:38am UTC](https://forums.visual-paradigm.com/t/improper-display-size-of-entities-when-opening-on-mac/18227/3 "2023-10-12T11:38:33Z")

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Thanks, @Rain! Will try the workaround.