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PamelaDbq
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August 4, 2022
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How to increase UI font size in Acrobat - make text in interface larger - accessibility

  • August 4, 2022
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How can I increase the font size in the UI for Acrobat Pro DC?

The text in the user interface and menus is far too tiny for me to read comfortably. 

Thank you in advance!

    Correct answer Lively_Sunbeam0402

    It seems that Adobe Acrobat does not observe Windows display scaling options within legacy dialogs. To fix this, I use Windows compatibility settings to override the application's DPI settings. The tradeoff with this is that it makes all of Acrobat's modern UI elements either blurry or pixelated depending on my scaling options.

    Instructions for Windows 11 24H2:

    1. Open shortcut properties window.
    2. Switch to "Compatibility" tab
    3. Click on "Change high DPI settings".
    4. Place a checkbox on "Override high DPI scaling behavior and select "System".

     

     


    Doing this ACTUALLY worked for me just now...
    That said, the UI of the Adobe itself looks kind of blurry now.  Still, that's not as bad as having to strain to read the the menus and text in the UI and what not.  TBH, I can't really tell if the quality of the image in the PDFs I'm opening has been affected in any way.

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    Amal.
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    Amal.Community Manager
    Community Manager
    August 4, 2022

    Hi there

     

    Hope you are doing well and sorry to hear that.

     

    Please go to Adobe Acrobat (Mac), Edit (Win) , Preferences > General > Under, Scale for screen resolution select 'Auto Detect' and reboot the application, and check.

     

    Regards

    Amal

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      PamelaDbqAuthor
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      August 4, 2022

      Amal, that suggestion did not work for me. Changing that setting in preferences does not impact the user interface at all. I restarted Acrobat as well as my computer, and also adjusted the scaling in Windows, but no effect on the Acrobat UI.

      Does it matter that I am using a networked computer? Right now my display resolution is set to the recommended 2560x1440 for this monitor, and scaling is set to 125%.

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        magnificent_Glitter5FE4
        Participant
        February 24, 2025

        They removed the scaling options for the UI. Even with the scaling up on my monitor, the text to 200% of the scaling of Adobe UI system is tiny. It doesn't scale like the rest of the documents and words. Opening up the menus is tedious. This is ridiculous. The scaling of the Uio should never been removed. 


        Did you find a solution for this? The text is so impossibly small on my new Surface pro screen that I can no longer use Adobe. It should be simple to change the scale, but alas it is all too small for me to see where/how to change it. 

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