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cheyrn
cheyrn
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July 9, 2021
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High DPI UI scaling

  • July 9, 2021
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I use painter and designer on a laptop with a 15" screen at 4k resolution (250% DPI scaling). The two programs have UI fonts that area unusually large.

 

In designer I can disable high UI scaling, but then the fonts are tiny.

 

I haven't found a settings like that in painter. Changing DPI scaling settings in the properties of the executable has no effect.

 

Is there a way for me to adjust the UI scale in both programs?

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Correct answer GeoffroySC

But this is your excuse, last 3-4 years already. First it was bug in Qt back in 2019, and now it's Qt limitation. 
Maya also use Qt and UI scaling is ok, I'm still using Maya 2019 and I don't have problem. 
It's shame that you have superb program, top of the game, Adobe money for development, but you cannot or don't know how to resolve this several years old issue with High DPI. 


Sorry for the trouble, we were hoping that updating to a newer version of Qt would solve those issues (as seen on their own bug tracker), but in the end, it wasn't the case. We need to look back again at the root cause to figure something out. We cannot tell for now when this will be fixed.

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julien.collee
Participant
November 26, 2023

'tis the solution I found if anyone is still looking. Makes the UI a little bit bigger on a 27" 4K screen. And makes it usable vs way too small. Hope that helps.

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    neoraphaelite
    Participant
    May 28, 2024

    This worked for me, THANK YOU!

    KoreyLame
    KoreyLame
    Participant
    March 21, 2022

    Hi Adobe? Is anyone going to answer this question? This issue has been raised countless times without it ever being addressed. Is there a way to control the scaling, or are you addressing the issue?

    GeoffroySC
    Community Manager
    GeoffroySCCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    March 23, 2022

    Hi,

    Interface scaling problems is something we are trying to improve. Scaling issues are very much bound to what our GUI toolkit, Qt,  permits. We can't do as much as we would like to improve this. 

    Thank you, 

    Kind Regards,

    Geoffroy SC

    lukas.chrapek
    lukas.chrapek
    Participant
    June 8, 2022

    But this is your excuse, last 3-4 years already. First it was bug in Qt back in 2019, and now it's Qt limitation. 
    Maya also use Qt and UI scaling is ok, I'm still using Maya 2019 and I don't have problem. 
    It's shame that you have superb program, top of the game, Adobe money for development, but you cannot or don't know how to resolve this several years old issue with High DPI. 

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