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[Locked] Re: Resolution Settings -- DW Menus are too small

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November 6, 2019
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How to adjust display's resolution settings downward in OS? And what is OS?

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Correct answer Nancy OShea

CS6 is legacy software from 2012. It was never Hi-dpi aware. And it never will be because Adobe stopped supporting Creative Suite when Creative Cloud was released in 2013. The best you can do is dial back your display settings to a lower screen resolution that's better for your eyes. See the correct answer to this related discussion below.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/Dreamweaver/Increasing-the-size-of-fonts-on-the-menu-bar/m-p/10723182#M55921

Nancy OShea

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I have branched this to a new discussion because the other one is 2 years out of date.

Which version of DW do you have?
Which operating system do you have?

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I have Adobe Master Collection CS6 and Windows 10 (I bought new laptop couple weeks ago)

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What makes you think any company can keep updating End of Life (EOL) software forever? They can't. It's impossible. Technology that didn't exist 8 years ago is beyond the scope and reach of EOL software. It has always been this way. That's the reason upgrades were pushed out in 18 month intervals to keep up with technology changes. You obviously saw no need to upgrade your Adobe software until now that you are 8 versions behind and having a bad experience with your EOL softwaer. Adobe didn't change a thing. You did when you got a new laptop. I mean no disrespect when I say this but you need to take some responsibility for the choices you made and stop blaming Adobe.

Microsoft stopped supporting older Office products, ended XP & Vista and will soon end support for Win 8 and 8.1. If you think they migrated users to Win 10 for altruistic reasons, think again. Microsoft is driven by profits the same as Apple, Adobe, Google, Amazon and other global companies. And that's nothing to apologize for.

I find this Nancy person particularly unhelpful and unfriendly, and her communication art very demeaning, not to say her views pathetic. Her art of communication is anything but professional, so I wonder how does someone like her get to be called "Adobe Community Professional" but then again, now that I know how Adobe operates, I can't be surprised. "User-friendly" is a foreign concept here. BenPleysier is exception.

I never bought End of Life (EOL) software, whatever that is, so her heated comment on that has no value or meaning. I wonder why moderator never censured her heated comment, but did couple of mine, or is she the censurer here?

As I have expressed explicitly enough for the bright among you to understand, unlike with Adobe, all other software I use have been able to keep up with advanced technology without pushing me to subscribe or to buy the same product again, but she seems not to get my point or the issue countless people have with Adobe. I am not going to waste my time to explain her the users' point of view as she seems not to care as much as she cares to demean those who don't agree with her.

It is also ludicrous to compare Microsoft's to Adobe's business drive, as Adobe's no name founder and CEO are no par with Gates' philanthropy. As I wrote, like millions of others, I did get a free upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 8 for free, which is not something anyone can say about Adobe, so you Nancy think again. But, I guess, someone who is unapologetic about profit-driven business model at the expense of humanity and who couldn't care less about the concept of sustainability, she can't really grasp all this, so no point in discussing this with her any further here.

For all those who found themselves in the same predicament as I and countless others, if you are smart enough, you know what to do - buy from and stand behind those companies that are user-friendly and whose humanity is greater than profitability, those that provide quality products and services, rather than the kind you won't be able to use when you buy a new computer.

Have a nice day!

Nancy OShea

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OS = operating system.

Change screen resolution on Windows 7 or 10.

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natalijadAuthor

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Thank you, Nancy. On the first link you gave me, the explanation is off because there is no option Adjust screen resolution under under Appearance and Personalization in Control Panel. Here is the screenshot:

On the other link you gave, the site wanted me to accept something about privacy, which I didn't want to accept for now.

I don't know if screen resolution and display resolution is the same or not, but my display resolution is on 125% and 1920 x 1080 as recommended.

Please advise what to do about it.

In the meantime I did Windows High DPI Fix as explanied here:

https://danantonielli.com/adobe-app-scaling-on-high-dpi-displays-fix/

However, this only scaled the fonts, which kind of works for the fonts in the Menus, but it is blurry and hard on my eyes when I work with DW's html files.

So my question is, even if I find in the Control Panel the ption Adjust screen resolution with your help, what exactly shall I do there and would that do the same - just scale it so that it is blurry, or would that fix it?

I just can't believe that Adobe is so bad, that it puts us through so much troubles in order to use their expensive software!!! I wasted so much time in finding a solution and still haven't find one and still can't use DW for too long because it is hard on my eyes.

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