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Liam s
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February 26, 2020
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Why is the indesign ui smaller than other adobe applications?

  • February 26, 2020
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I've recently just got a new laptop adn have noticed that indesigns ui on this laptop is smaller than the rest of the adobe suite, is there any way to fix this?

My windows scaling settings on my laptop are set to 250%, when i change it to 300% indesign looks better but the rest of the applications ui's become massive. is there a work around for this?

 

anyone else having this issue?

 

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Correct answer BobLevine
UI scaling on InDesign is a hot mess on Windows. In short is sucks. It's only capable of 100, 150 or 200 percent and it only looks reasonably good if that matches the Windows operating system scaling. If you have dual monitors with different scaling you're totally screwed.

I've been complaining for years and either nobody cares or they're incapable of doing anything about it. It's still based on the same method as Windows Vista while the Illustrator and Photoshop teams have done a nice job with those app.

The worst part to me is that there isn't even any acknowledgement about it.

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BobLevine
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BobLevineCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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February 26, 2020
UI scaling on InDesign is a hot mess on Windows. In short is sucks. It's only capable of 100, 150 or 200 percent and it only looks reasonably good if that matches the Windows operating system scaling. If you have dual monitors with different scaling you're totally screwed.

I've been complaining for years and either nobody cares or they're incapable of doing anything about it. It's still based on the same method as Windows Vista while the Illustrator and Photoshop teams have done a nice job with those app.

The worst part to me is that there isn't even any acknowledgement about it.
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    Liam sAuthor
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    February 26, 2020

    yeah that will probably also cause issues with me as im working on multiple monitors too.

     

    yeah it seems in the past few years the temas at adobe who are desinging these  app are very misaligned, such as changing the and leaving the which isnt good hotkey for constraining proportions in photoshop but leaving it as is in illustrator? as a proffesional who switches between most tools in the suite daily its not very helpful. It's a shame to see this as it only seems that this sort of stuff is happening more and more.

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