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Muriel Pelley

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Aug 3, 2024, 4:37:09 PM8/3/24

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Is there a way to get a larger tool icon and font size in Affinity Designer? I already have the "large" font in the prefernce pane on UI, which isnt very large. This font is barely acceptable. The icons as well for all the tools are a tad too small.

For a graphics based product, I think a little scaling of the UI should not be too challenging and thus am struggling to believe there is not already some way to alter this ... ? 4K and even now 5K monitors are becoming common place.

I have only recently begun using AP, and was just searching the forums for an answer to the very same question. I am using a 27" 2560 x 1440 monitor, so the UI should be larger than what appears on your monitors. However, I find them (icons and fonts) to be far too small. It's a shame there is no way to enlarge them beyond those changes available in Preferences. Why this option will not be made available to us is a puzzle to me.

Yeah pretty adismal really. What even more shocking is the lack of response from affinity. They just ignore it and continue releasing dozens of other features when the core product itself, the platform has a serious flaw.

This was already discussed extensively in other threads. Implementing UI changes (including a lighter interface) involves a lot more than just creating the icons in bigger sizes. All interface must be adjusted/balanced which implies more work than it may look at first. We are already working on improvements for version 1.6.

It is great to hear this is being addressed for version 1.6. I purchased Affinity Designer (MAC) and have a difficult time with the visuals being so small. I downloaded a trial of the photo program and it seems even worse. I will wait for the next version before purchasing photo. Looking forward to SEEING the changes! It's tough to see small indistinguishable icons/text when you have Macular Degeneration - even with strong glasses.

I've recently purchased the latest Affinity 1.6.11, and with reference to the above comments I too am frustrated by the size of fonts and toolbars, most noticeably the size of toolbars. If this is an improvement over previous versions, I shudder to think of the viability of those versions. Hopefully the next version will further improve the sizing.

So far I've found Affinity Designer to be such a great, fun, easy app to use compared to other products out there (including Illustrator which gives me a migraine headache every time I try to learn how to use it as I paid my monthly exorbitant $50) so just add the words for the tool.

Hi Sheila Finch,
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The tooltips (names of the tools) appear after you mouse over them a few seconds. You can set the time you want in Affinity Designer Preferences, User Interface section Tooltip Delay slider. Move it to the left to display them immediately.

I just installed Affinity Photo for the first time and with the current icon and font sizes it is totally unusable for me. If there's no way to change them, this ends the trial for me. Will try again once the UI can be scaled up.

I also do not understand why the tool sizes are so small, I get by OK with my MacBook Pro, but with the two monitor set up, I also have the same issue. My experience with Serif so far is that the pressure for a UI change has to be pretty big before they are prepared to change anything. Complaints on the forum seem to get some attention, but not enough to get action from Serif.

If there are enough of us pushing for this, we may get a solution. Frankly, I would have thought that it would not be a huge coding job to do this, so more user requests may get the changes you wish for.

Think I figured it out for the Mac to get a larger display for the 4k screen on a Mac. Font was way too small for me. so I went to System Preference on the dock, chose display, scaled and chose larger text the first and second choice gives you the best for working in the program. I have not had this issue in windows, but only for my new 4k Mac, but these steps fixed it. Working with Mac OS Catalina 10.15.6

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Try to restart Dropbox, if still your problem is not resolved then try to reinstall after this I hope your problem will be resolved. The other method is to customize your notification area through taskbar.

However, this did not change anything. I reinstalled Dropbox. I can still reach my Dropbox files stored locally. But I can't be sure anything is syncing with Dropbox in the cloud, so I must manually type in Dropbox, login online, and check.

Unfortunately, those pages don't provide a way to add an app to the menu bar/tool bar. They have an assortment of information to make the desktop do some dancing baloney, but nothing that adds an icon. I don't remember how the Dropbox icon was placed there before. So I've also tried a variety of drag and drop movements, and searched through Apple/System Settings, but haven't found anything that works.
Still hoping someone has figured this out and can share.

On another note, when pasting in a 26x20 pixel tool Icon in the Edit Definition Properties tab, how do you get a high resolution Icon. I made my Icon in Graphic Converter, but when I pasted it in, I got some sort of a message saying that it would be a low resolution Icon if I do not make a high-resolution counterpart, or something like that.

As you Paste the image into the Properties dialog, what directory do I put the High res image into? Where does Vectorworks store the image that was pasted in? Is that where I need to put the high res image?

The regular and high resolution images just need to be in the same folder before you import. Select the regular image with the Import PNG Icon..: dialog, and VW will automatically pull in the high res as well. No need to find where VW stores the image.

Since Vectorworks and the Plug-ins reside on seven different workstations in my office, are you suggesting I put two image files on each of seven workstations? Or can a workstation copy of Vectorworks pull the icons from our server? I typically Paste the icon in on my workstation, how will the other workstations find it?

It's much simpler than you are describing. The icon gets embedded into the plug-in, so after you select the icon with the [Import PNG Icon...] button, you're done. You could even delete the original icons from your workstation if you would like, but the embed process means you can't retrieve an icon from a plug-in.

In VectorScript I hit the Import PNG Icon... button, select the BLIcon.png file, and get the message that "The PNG file is the wrong size. The dimensions must be 26x20 pixels". I have verified 20 times that it is a 26x20 PNG file yet VectorScript sees it as something else.

I just copied the two images you posted and saved them from Preview to my desktop, naming them appropriately as A.png and A...@2x.png. They imported as I expected and invoked no error message. I saved them twice, with and without the alpha channel, but VW imported both versions the same. I am not sure where your problem lies, but I don't think it is with the image files.

I think my last reply didn't go through. Check that both images are at 72 dpi. I found that even if the pixel dimensions are correct, if they are not set for screen resolution, VW will produce an error. Also just confirm that your @2x version is 52 x 40 @ 72 dpi.

High resolution specifically refers to displays, like Apple's retina displays, that have twice as many pixels per inch. Because the icon size is the same display size on both kinds of screens, 52 x 40 is twice the resolution of 26 x 20, and in comparison, high resolution (or at least 2x resolution). In theory, keeping the image the same measured dimensions, say in mm, but changing the dpi from 72 to 144 should work, but even though the pixel dimensions are incorrect, VW is finicky about it. Personally, I think VW should just look at the pixel dimensions and not the dpi, but that doesn't look like it will change any time soon.

I lost a couple hours on this issue as well. This thread saved me from pulling the rest of my hair out. Sure would be nice is VW could add that little note to the dialog box that pops up that the image also needs to be 72 dpi.

I have recently started using Adobe Acrobat Pro to annotate documents. I am experiencing 2 issues: (1) If I have chosen the Comment toolkit, for example, there appears to be no way to toggle highlighting to off other than to click on some other commenting tool. How can I go back to just selecting text while remaining in the Comment toolkit? (2) If I have highlighted text, it seems to be next to impossible to copy the highlighted text. Am I missing something? I don't want to automatically copy the text into the comment for each highlight. The web shows as a solution right clicking on the section and clicking on Select Tool, but this does not appear on my Mac version of Adobe.

Regarding the Hand tool, yes it seems to disappear. if you customize your Tool bar or quick tools. I haven't yet been able to figure out exactly what will trigger it to disappear, but if you reset your toolbar back to the default, it should show up.