InDesign 2018 USER INTERFACE STILL TOO SMALL!
Over the years I (and others) have requested that the UI of InDesign be scalable. As designers, our eyes navigate us thru the creative process.
IT IS NOT EASY to readily decipher palettes and menus which sport MICROSCOPIC TYPE on a 28-inch, high-resolution monitor.
It IMPEDES workflow if one is spending extra time trying to find and choose things on the interface.
At least give us a choice! Smaller, Medium, Large, Extra-large.
When will Adobe get this??????
Michèle Berezowsky
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Anonymous
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Working with tabs here is a joke right?
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Anonymous
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My eyes hurt from squinting when UI Scaling is set "to lower Supported scale factor", and when it's "higher supported scale factor", the icons are too big, causing a lot of tools to be hidden on the control panel in Typography.
Guys, been using InDesign for years and I never had this problem until CC came along. Would appreciate the team getting us UI scaling like they did for Illus and Photosh. This is professional expensive software, c'mon, we need it to work properly and be adjustable.
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Anonymous
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I agree, it's either way too small or way too big on my 1920x1080 laptop screen. Please make it scaleable as in Photoshop and Illustrator.
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Anonymous
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The 2019/2020 updates increased the size of the interface as far as I can tell, but now its TOO BIG. It's choose between way too small and way too big.
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Lori
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It's really bad when you have to try and add a tab. The marks are CRAZY small. It usually takes me a few minutes to be able to set a tab. When using the accessibility feature on Mac, the dialogs get blurry with zoom (not really helpful). No pair of glasses will help with this...
Getting old isn't fun.
I like the idea of having choices: Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large (hopefully large would be at least a 16 pt font).
Adobe, please consider this request, your users do age.
Thank you,
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Alan Jones
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I'm experiencing this issue in its full glory.
There was a time when a user could count on core components of Adobe Products to work the same. Case in point: In Illustrator 2020, you can indeed adjust the size of the user interface via Preferences. I found this just the other day, so the question is why doesn't InDesign have this feature?
I'm all for innovation in products, but there are some things that should work across the entire Adobe Suite.
Attached is a screenshot of the interface adjustment preference from Illustrator. -
Katherine Mayse
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I have a visually impaired student in my yearbook class. We use InDesign. She can't see it. Is it still not scalable? This is not ok.
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Martin Schmitz
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It realy would be nice to have the possibility to scale the UI. We use InDesign in teamsessions on a 82'' 4k display. It's nearly impossible to work with it!
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Keith Aisner
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Please allow the UI to be scalable. You offer all kinds of ways to customize the layout of the workspace, but no way to fine tune the size of the tabs, fonts and buttons, which determines workspace efficacy quite a bit.
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Marta
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In previous versions there used to be an option that allowed users to make the UI menu font bigger (Escuala de IU in the Spanish version). If you use a big monitor the menu size creates unnecessary strain in the user's eyesight. Please make it available again.
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Michelle Malkowski
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I'm having this problem too and I'm getting sick of waiting to be fixed. I'm paying money here to use a program I can't use.
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ricky
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My workspace in indesign is too big. I cant access the bottom right corner to resize it.
such a nuisance. is there a quick command to fix this or do I need to restart? -
Nital S
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I have just changed my monitor and the UI text is MICROSCOPIC again - every time! I cannot adjust the monitor as everything else and other non-Adobe software is fine. When will there be an option - Smaller, Medium, Large, Extra-large.
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Nital shah
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To be able to adjust the font size in the UI so it can work better for a range of monitor and resolutions.
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vasalnet
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Adobe you ask for a ton of money and after so many years you cannot even allign the UI design of your basic apps! While Photoshop you implement UI scalling in a good way in Indesign it sucks. Either to small either in total lack of ellegance too large...
Is it really that hard or you dont care? -
Linda Hall
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COME ON Adobe!!! The InDesign 2019 UI is still not adjustable?!?!? I can't believe this hasn't been fixed yet. This is ridiculous; I have to put my nose to the monitor to read any of the settings or menus, or see the tools on my 27" iMac. I spend long hours every day (and big bucks every month!) working in serious discomfort because of this. Illustrator has fixed this issue - why not InDesign? WHY?!?!?! Does Adobe not care at all about the users of their products?
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James Ball
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Forgot to say this in my last rant :) JUST MAKE THE SCALING THE SAME AS ILLUSTRATOR FOR ALL ADOBE APPS. Please!
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James Ball
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I'm with you on this one! Why do photoshop and illustrator have UI scaling which can be set to the same as Windows scaling or larger yet InDesign has the option to be either 100, 150 or 200%. What if you're using 125% like I am or 250% like some laptop users are? Why the difference between apps written by the one company??
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Milosz Raczkowski
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This is my screenshot, I can't work.
https://i.paste.pics/c8302caede9aa2a73ab435383ee5c8ab.png
Please, do something
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Milosz Raczkowski commented
Any answer, dear staff?
