InDesign and Illustrator UI too small (2024)

/t5/illustrator-discussions/indesign-and-illustrator-ui-too-small/td-p/9722830 Feb 01, 2018 Feb 01, 2018

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Hi Olivander12,

Please make sure "Large Tabs" option is checked under Ai preferences (Edit > Preferences > User Interface).

Regards,

Srishti

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Thanks for your help, but this option is already checked.

Also, the scaling of the fx-Window does not work at all. If I, for example, click on artistic effects, I get a completely unscaled window, where I can barely read a thing. This window is even way to small compared to the already tiny UI. It looks like this.

This renders the effects options useless, unless I wanted to sit 10cm in front of my screen.

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Hi there,

We are glad to inform you that this has been addressed in our latest update released today. Please install and let us know if that helps

1) Do one of the following:

• (Windows) Choose Edit > Preferences > User Interface.
• (macOS) Choose Illustrator > Preferences > User Interface.

2) Adjust the UI Scaling slider. A preview of the scaled UI is displayed in the Preferences dialog box.

3) Select the Scale Cursor Proportionately option to scale the cursor icons in proportion to the UI.

4) To apply this setting, relaunch Illustrator. If you do not relaunch Illustrator, the changes will take effect the next time you launch Illustrator.

Here a few more features introduced in Illustrator 23.0: Introducing Illustrator CC 2019 | Adobe Blog

Regards,

Srishti

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Hi srishtib8795206​,

I am still experiencing this issue after the update from October. I have a 3840 x 2160 Dell XPS 15 Laptop Display, running on Windows 10, System Scaling set to 250%. Setting the UI scaling from Adobe Illustrator Preferences small or large does not make any difference, everything is way too small.

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What is the solution for InDesign? Illustrator is fine but InDesign is so small as to be unusable.

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I have the same issue here on an Asus UX501VW with a 15.6-inch 4k panel. The option you mentioned is already checked. Still, the UI and tabs and icons are extremely small and impossible to work with. Please... Just find a Windows laptop with 15.6-inch or smaller 4k display and try your Illustrator on it. You will find that no options help whatsoever and this is a buggy issue regarding the software itself, not with any options. The reason that I am so confirmed is that the UI of Illustrator has been working greate throughout the time of CC 2017. This issue has been present only since an update after I upgraded to CC 2018. Also, I have to mention that before the same update, UI of Photoshop is just as dreadful as the Illustrator is now. However, after this update the problem went away from Photoshop to Illustrator.

Attached are some screenshots. Please try to view them on a 15.6-inch display and you'll see what I mean by TINY. Please come up with a fix. I am really frustrated about this because such scaling issues on HiDPI display on Windows have been around since late 2016 as far as I know. And guess what, it is already mid-April of 2018!

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Hi all,

Please share your feedback or feature request regarding the adjustable UI using these links and upvote:

Illustrator: Adobe Illustrator Feedback

InDesign: Adobe InDesign Feedback

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Om

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Hi Om,

Actually I have already done so and the link to my feedback is here:

UI scaling in Illustrator is unusably TINY – Adobe Illustrator Feedback

To be honest, I know there are a lot of tasks you guys need to complete but seriously this is a BUG rather than a feature request problem. And this bug has been around like forever, jumping around from app to app, from Photoshop to Illustrator in the case of this 2018 update. So yeah, hopefully you guys can give this problem higher priority. If you guys are going to base their fix priority only on the voting, I think we 4k Windows laptop users are doomed because there are far far fewer 4k Windows laptop users than 1080p Windows user or even Macbook user around the world, and macOS seems to be even more dominant in Adobe's community.

Thank you for your reply anyway and hope to receive some fix about this soon, like before 2019?

Best,

Xucong

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Hi Xucong,

Thanks for sharing the UserVoice link. I'll forward it to the product team. I'd also request you and others to upvote it so that we have a significant number of votes for this feature request.

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Om

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Hi,

The solution for Win10 or for any such software running under Win10 is pretty straight-forward.

Right click on the .exe file for the app, Go to Compatibility > Settings > Change high DPI Settings > Change Program DPI Settings and set High DPI Scaling override to 'System'.

Best,

Cem

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Hi ccu.de​,

This setting indeed scales the UI properly but it looks blurry, so still not an ideal solution.

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Hi Barb,

Sorry about the inconvenience. Please share your feedback/ suggestion here: Adobe InDesign Feedback. This is the best way of communicating with the Engineering and Product Management teams regarding issues and suggestions so they can be implemented in future releases.

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Srishti

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This issue seems resolved for the main User Interface, but it is unresolved for the User Interfaces that open within the workflow. For example, with a path selected if I go to "Effect" --> "Sketch" --> "Chalk & Charcoal" the User Interface that opens for that workflow contains system text and system icons that are too small to be understood. This is repeatable for many workflow user interfaces. This is a usability bug and should been at the very top of the developers focus.

Thanks,

Kevin

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Anyone with this issue please Vote this bug report up:

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-bugs/suggestions/36732025-user-interface...

Thanks,

Kevin

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