PSE high dpi awareness

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Hello!Couple of years ago I bought Lenovo Yoga laptop and a package of Adobe software with it, which included Lightroom 5, Photoshop Elements 12 and Premiere Elements 12.I was happy using it for two years, made a lot of excelent photos and videos with it. Until unfortunate bicycling accident, when I smashed my laptop, which was in my backpack.Now I bought a new Asus ZenBook laptop, which features gorgeous 13.3" screen with 3200x1800 resolution. I installed all my Adobe software onto it, and while Lightroom works perfectly, Photosop and Premiere does not.  The user interface is sooo small it is practically unusable.And being Windows programmer I perfectly know where problem lies. Since high DPI monitors came into existance, programs in Windows are of two types in regard to high DPI: old ones and high DPI aware.Old ones are simply scaled up by the system. This can lead to some graphical problems but generaly program stays usable on high DPI monitors.High DPI aware programs tell the system that they know about high DPI, this way the system does not interfere with their graphics and they are supposed to scale their UI by themselves. Which Lightroom does. And which Photoshop and Premiere do not.Why declare them high DPI aware to the system if your are not doing anything about it? I consider this as a bad trick to make me buy the next version. Which I don't need otherwise. Can a patch be issued to address this? Simply turning of high DPI awareness in the program manifest would make it usable again.Vasyl

MichelBParis · Accepted Answer

First of all, 24" laptop would be a bit heavy - don't you think?

Second, I do have a large external monitor with more conservative DPI. Which I use whenever I am home.

Third, I wasn't lured into buying this laptop with this particular screen by marketers, I actually wanted to buy FHD version. It just happened that this particular model with specs I needed was sold only with this screen. Using this screen at 200% UI increase actually gives me even smaller virtual resolution, than FHD would have - 1600x900 against 1920x1080.

Finally, better eyes resolution would obviously be great, but the thing is, I don't want to see the pixels all the time. If I need to - I can zoom in. If I want to - I can always launch DosBox with Prince of Persia in it.

Ok.

I'd just like to remind other users wanting to choose a display for a laptop that today:

- you need PSE13.1 or newer to support the 200% factor for fonts

- Either choose a standard or a real 4k display to be at ease; in between is not ideal for the editor.

- The editor uses the 200% factor whereas you set the font size for the organizer in the Windows display preferences (125, 150% etc.) That's a bit disturbing, but most users are happy with both.

- You can often use an external monitor with HD resolution: 1920 x 1080. Owing to TV standard changes we find here a lot of obsolete TV sets available for next to nothing. They can be very comfortable at home with HDMI connection.

vasyl_demianov · Answer

hatstead​ 99jon​, may be at least there is a way to buy older discount version 13?

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