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themightyant
Inspiring
November 26, 2025

Code view font size is now illegibly small

  • November 26, 2025
  • 3 replies
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Hi, I've recently encountered a bug I can't fix. The font's size in Dreamweaver Code View has become illegibily small, appearing as if it's about 2pt when it's set to 16pt. I can increase this by setting it to something large like 48pt or 72pt in Preferences -> Fonts -> Code View but it appears like it is 12px, however this has many knock on side effects.

 

I have also checked zoom is at 100% (Ctrl + 0) and can fine tune this by making it a little larger or smaller  (Ctrl + '+/-') however each time I open a new document this resets. 

 

Does anyone know why this is happening and have a fix? I was considering reinstalling Dreamweaver, but I don't want to lose all my presets, code snippets etc. Last time I did this getting them back was a bit of a palaver via support. 

 

Any help greatly appreciated.  

3 replies

Nayan_Kankariya
Inspiring
December 8, 2025

Hi @themightyant,

 

Thanks for writing to us. We apologize for the issue you are observing with code view font. Can you please provide a screenshot illustrating the issue. Also, can you please let us know the workflow which caused the issue, so that we can investigate the issue internally and provide feasible solution. It would be great to have a remote connect session for further troubleshooting the behavior and fix the same.

 

Have a pleasant day!

 

Regards,

Nayan

Adobe Dreamweaver Team 

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 28, 2025

It could be a corrupted font. To test, try switching fonts.

I use Source Code Pro without issues. 

 

Mouse click inside the Code panel. 

Hold Ctrl ++++ to increase font size.

Hold Ctrl + 0 (zero) for 100% zoom.

 

 

Hope that helps.

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Community Expert
November 26, 2025

It sounds like the preferences might need to be reset. Can you try this first and let us know if this works? https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/kb/restore-preferences-dreamweaver.html