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GerardiniFoto
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February 16, 2020
Question

Win10 Scaling window text too big or to small. "Goldilocks Zone" size needed.

  • February 16, 2020
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Hello,

I started fresh on a new PC with Win10 and a 4k 27" monitor before purchaing and installing Adobe Ps, Lr and then Bridge. I'm tring to move from FastStone Image Viewer to Bridge as FastStone is bogging down on my catalog size and slowing down. Thoght I would get Bridge a try.

One big problem is window font sizes. As you can see it is way too small or big. The small I can't read and the big defeates having the larger monitor real estate to work with.

I have adjusted Pr and Lr to scale correctly as per solutions provided in this community, but have not for Bridge.

I have tried changeing to threads in this community:

  • Changing the DPI bridge.exe peferences.
  • Changing Bridge perferences for text scaling and user interface scaling; Auto, 100% & 200%.

All to no avail.

As you can see from photos I have fixed he scaling problem out with both Ps and Lr to get workable results.

There is just no way I have found to get a size that is inbetween the two too small or to big.

Why can Ps and Lr to get this "Goldilocks Zone" size, but not Bridge?

Please help, I would really like to use this tool in my workflow as it's mush more powerful than FastStone.

Regards,

Pete

 

 

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R_MOELLER
Known Participant
February 26, 2020

Hello,

I've got the same problem with 27" and 2560 x 1440 px. Probably it's worse with higher ppi. I have set desktop scaling in Windows to 125%, font size in Bridge to the largest font and left te setting for UI scaling to "Auto". That gives me a mostly usable UI in Bridge but some parts of the UI aren't scaling  The Menu bar items are still small, text in the status bar (e.g. number of elements) is tiny and tooltips aren't readable. What's worse is that the UI text of ACR isn't scaling at all. Whatever font size I set for Bridge, the text in ACR stays the same and is very small. Besides I have found that I have to restart the system to change the settings reliable, it's not enough to just restart Bridge.  

Rainer

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GerardiniFotoAuthor
Participant
May 24, 2020

SOLUTION

 

I updated to most recent version of Bridge, however no application fix. I don't have this problem with Ps or Lr.

 

Did a little poking around and found idea for solution, thanks Linus Tech

 

https://youtu.be/NF210WeR9C8?t=243

 

Which lead me to a solution here in the Photoshop community from FIVE years ago!

 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/photoshop-cs6-menus-and-icons-too-small-on-windows-8-1-with-4k-uhd-display/td-p/6863303?page=1

 

Then I went into Bridge prefs and set user interface scaling to "Auto" and picked the Text Size to be in my "Goldilocks Zone" and aaahhhh finally.

 

Now I can switch over to Bridge from FastStone, however with a very small hard to see black cursor, which already has a topic on here.

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    Abel5ED5
    Participant
    July 13, 2021

    You have saved me so much frustration!!!! Alas, I can see everything with no eye strain. YAY!!!!!

    PECourtejoie
    Community Expert
    PECourtejoieCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 17, 2020

    Hello, which scaling settings are selected in Ps and Lr?

    What is the size of your monitor, both in inches diagonal and H&V pixels?

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    GerardiniFotoAuthor
    Participant
    February 17, 2020

    Hello,

    Images of Ps & Lr preference screen shoots below, darker gray is Ps. If scaling information is somewhere else

    Minitor size in inches 27
    Resolution H 3.840 x  V 2.160 Pixel

    Regards,

    Pete

     

     

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