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perrybrus
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February 7, 2018
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Too small UI on 4K display!

  • February 7, 2018
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Bought a new 4K display, all fine until I opened Adobe apps and to my great surprise the UI was super tiny. I can't read the menu text or the palettes. So I started searching for a size adjuster but there's no way to adjust the size of the type and the UI graphics. This is the same in Photoshop, XD, Illustrator. It's all over the place! Isn't Adobe prepared for 4K resolution?!! Do I have to DECREASE the whole system resolution so my 4K was a total waste of money? I actually tried that too but still had issues with the Adobe UI's.

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    Frans v.d. Geest
    Frans v.d. Geest
    Community Expert
    November 28, 2018

    Can we lock this discussion? It is getting ridiculous now. This is a rant from someone that can not deal with the fact things don’t always goes his way (the whining ego’s of people these days, geez!) or can not accept he needs reading glasses. If you want to sue because you can not bother to learn how to change the resolution of a display in the OS you daily use... I can not take that serious anymore. Lock this discussion, thanks.

    Dov Isaacs
    Dov Isaacs
    Brainiac
    November 28, 2018

    This thread is now locked!

              - Dov

    - Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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    Jim Davis Philly
    New Participant
    November 28, 2018

    He's right. No matter what you do, Dreamweaver does not work correctly on 4k Monitors. When you hold down alt + click on an document to have the CSS come up, it always goes to the wrong resolution and it also displays screen size the percentage larger you enlarged windows. So mine is 175% larger and that made dreamweaver's document that.

    Between the total choking of dreamweaver an crashing and now this with the 4K resolution, I think it's time for Adobe to rethink what they are doing or just give up. Year after year it's become more of a dog. If their push is to go all code, then why do we need a WYSIWYG? I'd rather go back to Hotdog in 1997 before Dreamweaver came out.

    You hearing this Adobe? I just spent all night upgrading to Windows 10 thinking it was just Windows 7 being phased out but nope. It's you. You guys are the problem and you know it. Photoshop is fine but DW? Forget 4K montiors if you work on the web with DW.

    I can't believe I spent the night thinking this problem was just Microsoft Again. You do know abate and switch is illegal and when you do it over state lines it's RICO and that means class action lawsuit of all adobe users vs you over this.

    I'm filing and attorney general complaint just because I spent the night dealing with an upgrade and all the while, it's just you people sucking at your job and trying to get by until you had a real fix. Where is it? 

    BobLevine
    BobLevine
    Community Expert
    November 28, 2018

    Feel better?

    I'm not thrilled with the UI scaling either but your rant about Dreamweaver in an InDesign forum will get you nowhere. And throwing out insults won't help, either.

    Good luck with that lawsuit. You won't find an attorney willing to take it on a contingency.

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      perrybrusAuthor
      Inspiring
      November 28, 2018

      I'm not from the states but I know of several lawyers that would take on a group lawsuit in Europe. Especially against a rich company like Adobe. About time Adobe is taught that WE are the ones paying their bills. I agree with Jim and right now I'm tempted to call CC a fraud scheme. The product doesn't deliver but they charged me. So perhaps a mass refund would be the next natural step? Or the option to pay per product based on what Adobe can deliver as a fully qualified program and not just perpetual work in progress, release candidates or beta apps. Now I'm paying to be a crash test dummy and I never signed up for that. Loss of time. Loss of money. I call it robbery.

      It's not just this topic in this thread but a multitude of issues across the line. Can't think of one product I'm paying for in the CC system that actually works 100%. Not one! It used to be stable back in the days of hard copy but Adobe wanted more cash so here we are.

      Derek Cross
      Derek Cross
      Community Expert
      February 7, 2018

      Which version of InDesign and OS?

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      perrybrusAuthor
      Inspiring
      February 7, 2018

      It's a brand new setup. Started with Windows 10 Anniversary Update (64-bit) - Version 1607 (build 10.0.14393) and then after installment I ran an update process to see if MS had any updates. All my CC apps are up to date. No available updates there.

      Derek Cross
      Derek Cross
      Community Expert
      February 7, 2018

      So it's InDesign 13.0.1?

      BobLevine
      BobLevine
      Community Expert
      February 7, 2018

      There is a UI scaling option under your preferences. This of course assumes you're running a new version of the applications.

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