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Barb Binder
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Barb BinderCommunity Expert
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November 7, 2022
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Scaling issues

  • November 7, 2022
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Hi FrameMaker Friends:

 

I finally gave up on trying to run Fm on my M1 Mac, and now am working like a "normal" user, running FrameMaker on a Windows computer as the Adobe team intended.

 

What is wrong with my scaling? I'm on Windows 11 and the Fall 2022 release of FrameMaker (though I have seen this occasionally on student computers in the past on earlier versions of Windows and FrameMaker).

 

Note: small menu bar, giant menu items, smushed rulers, and my catalogs are illegible. 

 

I have tried out multiple display and scale resolutions but I can't figure out how to make this work. 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks in advance,

~Barb

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Correct answer Bob_Niland

What monitor is that?
3840×2400 is a 16:10 A/R, which isn't unheard of, but is a minority these days.

 

More specifically, what is the diagonal size of the screen?

I'm running various FMs on a 32in 3840×2160 (16:9), and with Win10 scaling set to 150%, everything is at useful sizes.

 

If the above doesn't quickly lead to a resolution (so to speak), perhaps the next thing to look at is settings in system & personal maker.ini, such as:
MonitorSize
If that disagrees with what Windows is reading back via VESA EDID or DisplayID, I've no guesses on what happens. The legacy FM setting also likely assumes a 4:3 A/R.

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Barb Binder
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Barb BinderCommunity ExpertAuthor
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November 8, 2022

Bob! You are my hero! And 100% correct. I changed the aspect ratio to 16:9 and it solved the problem. 

 

For anyone else with this issue down the road, I'm using a 16" laptop display, and changing the display resolution to 2560 x 1440 at 150% scaling did the trick. I am forever grateful.

 

~Barb

 

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
Bob_Niland
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Bob_NilandCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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November 8, 2022

What monitor is that?
3840×2400 is a 16:10 A/R, which isn't unheard of, but is a minority these days.

 

More specifically, what is the diagonal size of the screen?

I'm running various FMs on a 32in 3840×2160 (16:9), and with Win10 scaling set to 150%, everything is at useful sizes.

 

If the above doesn't quickly lead to a resolution (so to speak), perhaps the next thing to look at is settings in system & personal maker.ini, such as:
MonitorSize
If that disagrees with what Windows is reading back via VESA EDID or DisplayID, I've no guesses on what happens. The legacy FM setting also likely assumes a 4:3 A/R.

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