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Magnhild Mongolo

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Im working on a laptop (windows) and find that the majority of the UI (text, icons, etc.) is too small. Some of the fonts scale correctly to my system preferences, but most are microscopic. I have googled and it says there should be a UI font scale option or icon scale option under the User Interfaces section of the preferences menu, but I cannot see it (see attached - screenshot in designer v2).

I have googled and it says there should be a UI font scale option or icon scale option under the User Interfaces section of the preferences menu, but I cannot see it (see attached - screenshot in designer v2).


I think the should be statement is from a lot of posts from users desiring it, not that it is actually available. As you can see there is no such setting or adjustment within the Affinity apps. Some users have changed the setting in Windows>System>Display.


So it seems I'm not missing something after all. This is disappointing. I already have my scaling turned up quite a bit (and system text too, not shown in screenshot) and if it gets any bigger, the rest of my general system UI will be comically large. So it seems that this is just a feature lacking in this software suite, which sucks. I may just have to not use this software suite on my laptop. Hopefully something like this can be added in a future update.


The Settings/Ease of Access/Make text bigger setting avoids the undesirable effects of scaling your entire display, but it only changes some text elements, not the icons and not text elements that are hard-coded by Affinity and that don't use the Windows system fonts. It works for me on my 24" 1920x1200 Dell monitors. I would never be able to use Affinity on a 13" laptop monitor and maybe not even on a 15" monitor.


Larger monitors are not necessarily a solution. You can find many posts in these forums from people who have purchased larger (e.g. 32") high resolution monitors and find Affinity almost unusable. The Teeny-Tiny UI problem only gets worse with age. If you stick with it, eventually you memorize where things are and what they indicate even though you can't read them comfortably and unambiguously.


I have the same issues. I can not read the menu text or icons on my High-Resolution monitor. No matter how I attempt to correct the situation, it does not resolve. My eyesight suffers when using this application. My vision is blurred from eye-strain. At this point, I am ready to throw my hands up in the air and return to Photoshop. To say I am extremely disappointed in Affinity is an understatement. I can work on a lower-resolution monitor, but that defeats the purpose of a high-resolution monitor when creating graphic art. Totally unacceptable. This has been going on for YEARS. Unbelievable.


When the iPhone 4 launched, it had connectivity issues with the antenna due to a design oversight(/regretful choice?), and Steve Jobs tried to tell people "no, the phone doesn't have a problem, you're all just holding it wrong".


This is also a problem on Mac. You can go into system settings (display) and increase size of everything (scaled), which I have to do so I can see anything well and it works on everything else. However, when done the Affinity UI screen goes out of site at the bottom and you can't go down and shorten the screen. This is even the case if you set the display to the larger scale, shorten the Affinity UI screen and then go back and enlarge it. So, I have to go back and forth with system settings when using the Affinity Apps. That is rough on my old eyes.


Scaling the UI text and icons for all 3 Affinity Apps was available in the later versions of Affinity v.1. I just discovered with Affinity V.2 it was taken away. I think that was an awful decision. Serif, do you not care about making your products as visually accessible as possible? Computer monitors increase by the day it seems. With more visual space to work on, your consumers should have the option to increase UI size as we once did.


As you will see from links provided in my older posts, the APhoto UI became significantly worse in Affinity 2 applications. Given that history, there seems little hope for improvement given that Affinity does not consider readability to be a problem. Either that or it lacks the technical expertise and user experience specialists who could do anything about it.


Since installing iPadOS 15.3, when I have opened my Mail app, I notice some small windows at the bottom of the display, with miniatures of emails I have received. Apparently a preview of some mails that can be accessed quickly, and haven't seen yet. And one has a "+" so more windows can be added. The windows all go away when I poke the screen.


This is not a helpful solution. I want to have my dock open, but I don't want the useless windows running across the bottom of my Mail app. I know I can make them disappear by clicking elsewhere on the screen, but why do they appear to begin with?


I agree with your comment. I am the original poster of this thread, and so far I haven't received an answer about the intended use of these windows or what they are even for. I just find them a continuing small annoyance. How do we make them stop showing up? Or someone tell me why I should like what they are intended to do


Open the mail app and beginning on the left side start flicking them vertical to erase them. You will encounter two that you cannot delete. At that point, close the mail app then reopen it. All the windows will have been erased not to return again.


Also, it appears that Apple has provided a fix for the problem with their latest iPadOS update. I happened to open Mail after the update, before I saw your solution, and see that the little windows don't appear at all unless you press the small icon at bottom left center that looks something like two pieces of paper. Then the little windows show up. I still don't know what is intended to be done with them, and once there you are stuck with them until you close and reopen Mail, but it least they won't appear now unless you want them to.


For example, if you have three running instances of Safari, each with its own set of open tabs, you will see three thumbnails corresponding to each running instance of Safari - plus a button to open a new instance of Safari. Simply tapping a thumbnail will switch directly to that running instance of Safari. Each App - such as Mail, Safari, Notes, Calendar, etc. - has its own corresponding shelf.


Individual open instances of an App can be closed directly from the Shelf; just swipe the unwanted thumbnail off the top of the screen. Note however, that Multitasking and associated Shelf functions cannot be disabled.


I have tapped the little button on the lower left hand side of the mail and indeed those annoying little boxes disappear. However, no messages show up and the app constantly crashes. If I leave those boxes alone after 30 long seconds mail appears. What in the world is the purpose of this. By the way this only happens on my iPad, not on my iPhone or iMac. Puzzled!!!


Not sure if it has been changed but you should be able to right-click on the shortcut that starts the tiny window and then click on properties. Look down where it says run and it should say Normal Window. It should give you the choice of Maximized or Minimized too.


Doing this with a few application windows seemed to work, but as the problem seems to be random I will have to monitor it over a few days (and maybe with a reboot in between). However, you would have to do this on an app-by-app basis. I was hoping that there was a global setting that would allow all apps to open their windows to the size and location as they were when last closed. If such a thing exists, it would no doubt be a registry setting.


Hello, I'm switching to Windows, the problem is that I can't have the same UI size as on the mac, on the same 32" 4k monitor. It's too small, I've tried UI Scaling 200% and not change.

Also in the properties " Hig DPI scaling behavior for Sistem, but it also does nothing, does anyone have a solution?


The UI scaling in Preferences must remain at Auto. Don't touch it. The 200% setting is for older Windows versions and older Photoshop versions that don't support the current scaling (sometime past 2018 or so). Also, do not touch the Properties > compatibility setting.


What sets Photoshop apart from almost every other application and makes it a very special case, is that it has to scale the interface but not the image window. All other applications can just scale everything at once. That's what the Properties setting is for.


Thank you for your answers, I was clarified, and now I understand. However the ui is much smaller, mainly the top menu bar, I have to scale 200% on the Windows system so that it is equivalent to the Mac, on the same 32" LG 4K monitor, but I can't stay at 200% because it is too big for the rest. Is there any solution to make the menu bar bigger?


The underlying assumption is that the Photoshop UI is not that different from other applications' UI. So there's no particular reason why you should need special customization for Photoshop. A % scaling factor that generally works for Windows and other apps, should also work for Photoshop.


Judging by the lack of posts about this here in the forum, this apparently works very well. If it simply doesn't work that way, that's a bug and should be reported as such. But before you do - make absolutely sure that you reverse and reset those other settings you have changed.


The interfaces look the same to me, except the menu bar. The menu bar in Mac is always a fixed size, nothing to do with the app. In Windows, the menu bar is part of the app. I see the font in the menu bar on Windows is the same size as the tool bar below it, which looks correct.

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