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Add UI Scaling

Forum|Forum|12 years ago
January 26, 2014
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The After Effects user interface is very diffuclt to work with at 4k, even on very large monitors. To wit, on a 32" monitor at 3840x2160, the text of a layer name is 1/16 of an inch tall– 8 layers are packed into each vertical inch. The Console Debug "AdobeCleanFontSize" workaround has no effect on some aspects of the interface, such as layer names, text in effect control panes, etc. This undersized UI poses legibility challenges, and slows workflow by requiring an extrordinary level of pointing accuracy to click on things.

Illustrator solves this problem elegantly by adding a "UI scaling" slider control to the "User Interface" pref pane. Photoshop solves this problem a bit less elegantly but still effectively with a "UI Font Size" and a "Scale UI to Font" option. I suggest the AE team adopts one of these appoaches. I'd also suggets that this be a very high priority. It is necessary for most AE artists to work at 4k these days, making this an annoyance that I deal with every single day. I feel this is the most glaring feature oversight in AE currently.

Thank you for your consideration, AE dev team. And if you are a fellow AE user reading this and you have the same issue be sure to upvote, because apparently upvoted posts in this forum is what passes as a feature request/bug report nowadays.

Thanks!

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avanrossum

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People have been asking for this for at least 13 years. I doubt it will ever show up, but we can still hope

Shebbe

Community Expert

I would also like to see a fully smooth scalable UI via a slider. It would probably require a redesign of the way their UI functions though... don't see it happening very soon.

It does scale along with OS scaling however so you can use that as a workaround for now although all your software will be affected by it.

Swandive stream

Inspiring

As of current the font size is so small that I can't see what I am doing easily. It's considerably prohibitive when I'm struggling to read the layer names and other elements (24" screen). This is a common issue for users.

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Rick Gerard

Community Expert

This is a very common feature request. It has my vote.

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kumashu

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Hi there.

I have a lil problem. I have high rez monitor and using AE CS6 but I couldn't find about change UI font size menu.

Is that possible? My OS windows 7.

Best,

Kuma

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iaa1

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That this remains an issue is a shame on Apple, Adobe, Microsoft - everyone involved in UX design. It is not solely an Adobe issue. It is an industry issue.

What Adobe in particular and vendors in general need to recognize are THREE issues

High DPI systems are intended for USER CONVENIENCE. In most cases, to show high DPI videos and images, in some cases to cram more apps on the screen. What we have is high DPI imagery and more app space, but what is sacrificed is readability.
Font shrinkage as a % of screen size, relates to readability, and poor readability is poor User eXperience. The response to run our displays with lower DPI / lower resolution is ridiculous. Why buy a high DPI system then? And running any system outside native mode degrades the GPU performance.
In AE I need high dpi for images, but not for menus. Menu fonts are too small. Why does AE make this a problem? A basic app like TERMINAL lets you set font size. Is Adobe too small to go big?

Patrock3000

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Well stated. I had to buy glasses to use After Effects on my higher resolution monitor. This is bad for the health of their users.

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