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Bachac
Bachac
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October 27, 2014
Question

I have a 32 inch monitor with a resolution of 3840 x 2160, Framemaker 12, and the size of the icons in the menu bar is microscopic

  • October 27, 2014
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I have changed to the larger icon size in options. When I reduce the resolution to half its ok, but Framemaker is a design product and should be able to handle monitors greater than 22 inches. I have no problem like this with Versions 10 and 11.

Any idea what I can do?

Thanks a lot.

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    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis Gubins
    Inspiring
    October 27, 2014

    IIRC, the standard icon sizes are 18x18 pixels and the large ones are 26x26 pixels. These were designed before 4k monitors were readily available, so you won't be able to make things larger in FM unless you use something like Windows Magnifier (see: Make items on the screen appear bigger (Magnifier) - Windows Help)

    You should put in a feature request to add icons for 4K monitors. See: Bugbase & Wishlist

    Bob_Niland
    Community Expert
    Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 27, 2014

    > You should put in a feature request to add icons for 4K monitors.

    Put that way, the request is apt to be ignored. FM already runs on "4k" monitors, and the icons are probably of adequate size on a 50-inch 4k monitor (or a multi-monitor setup approximating that).

    The issue is icon, legend and dialog text sizes on high resolution displays, irrespective of raster pixel count and screen diagonal size. What might suffice is another maker.ini setting like Monitor Size (supported by a Preferences or Options dialog for extra credit).

    So I'd put in the feature request for "useful control of icon, legend and dialog text sizes on very high resolution displays (120 ppi to 400 ppi at least)".

    Aside: the Monitor Size setting in FM appears to control only whether a 100% display of a document is actually at paper size on screen. It has no influence on icons, legend and dialogs. In the old days, before GPUs were fast and cheap, it was actually useful to tweak the mon size so that, at your preferred edit scale, for imported raster objects, one source object pixel took one screen pixel (or integer multiple/fraction thereof), as doing so improved display performance substantially.

    Bob_Niland
    Community Expert
    Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 27, 2014

    What version of Windows?

    Does your mouse have a scroll wheel?

    If so, try holding the keyboard Control [Ctrl] key down, and rotate the scroll wheel.

    Bachac
    BachacAuthor
    Participant
    October 27, 2014

    Thanks for your response. Ctrl and mouse scroll only increases the document size. The icons in the menu bar remain the same microscopic size I am afraid.

    Bachac
    BachacAuthor
    Participant
    October 27, 2014

    I am using Windows 7 ultimate

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