P: Introducing scale the UI 200% for high-density displays for Windows

Chris,

Thanks for the followup, still a bit of a grey area. This still does not explain why PS 2014 does not except Windows display text size changes and PS CC does.

Please review attached link - http://gsfn.us/t/4jrwg then follow the threads. I have some other questions and examples under the right topic.

Thanks

Phil Graham

Please see the original topic - we spent a long time working with Microsoft to get the OS APIs fixed, and to find workarounds for OS APIs that could not be fixed quickly.

Also, this feature is experimental for a reason - it is not yet complete. And we are continuing to work with Microsoft to get things working as they should.

From my research Adobe Photoshop has been having trouble with UI sizing for over 3 yrs.( just Google "Windows HiDPI monitors") about 9 screens and growing on Adobe's site.

The new Experimental Features on PS is a good first step however... only if you own a 4K monitor ! ??

The above threads already covered why 200% does not work for main stream monitors ... ok, almost work on some monitor resolutions. I am using multiple 1920 x1200 displays, no work space left after setting EF to 200%.

- 2560x1600 better at 150% 100 or 200 what happen to 150 125... ?
- 4K it works ... only small install base maybe 2% ??

After loading PS 2014, I noticed that the font size for the file menu - pull down was set to small (same size as title bar ??). ( hard to see on 1920x1080 monitor)
- Windows 8.1
- PS - UI setting set to large - prefs
- Windows - setting display to 125% text

Note: So new feature not mentioned in Adobe PS 2014 - Windows 7/8.1 setting under display (125%) no longer modifies PS font size for pull down menus ??
- PS CC works on Windows 7/8.1
- CS6 PS works on Windows 7/8.1

Ok guys - Product Group, Product Marketing, System test and managers of those groups. What happened to testing products before they release ?

If you are going to add features that break other functionality do not do it or a least put it the release notes... like I said earlier 98% of your base are not using 4K monitors ???

In closing PS is a great tool, I not sure why it takes so long ( 3yrs of reported issues) to rewrite code, when some of the other Adobe Suite products seem to follow windows display sizing or you have added a UI Interface feature. Microsoft is not the main problem, you have other solutions.

Adobe is a great company and produces excellent products, so groups manager please take some time to focus your teams to fix these UI sizing issues and provided a more detailed information source for user reference.

Case # 185629992

Thanks
Phil Graham

Any feed back on my issue of having Nick Software too small while using the experimental 200% fetaure in Photoshop CC 2014 ?

Yes, I agree The HiDPi is needed as well in Bridge...I hope they are already working on this, if not my 24" 4k display is completely useless ....

Or:
f you are unable to change Preferences as stated at the end of the first post above, resetting preferences might work. Hold down Shift Alt Ctrl immediately after starting Photoshop.

1 open PS
2 go to Preferences > Experimental Features
3 press TAB 2 TIMES
4 press SPACE
5 press TAB MORE 3 TIME
6 press ENTER

Linda, you can go back to the old size by just not clicking the 200% option

Oh my, impossible to read new size text even on large. 200% too big for my screen. PLEASE go back to old size!

Yes I did. I had to as it did not show up any more after CC 2014 installation. I also made sure I got their latest one on the web site.