Is there support yet for PC high DPI displays? I see there is support for Apple....

Have been a user of Photoshop Elements for many years. Presently have version 12, which is unusable on my Dell XPS 15" with 4K Ultra HD display. I found a statement somewhere on Adobe's site that there is support for HiDPI displays from Apple, but no mention of Windows machines. Scaling, changing resolution, etc. doesn't help - the icons are tiny and can't be seen by my eyes without squinting or a magnifying glass. I don't want to switch programs but will if support isn't there for displays like mine that are more common every day.....

Yes, in PSE 13 but definitely do the trial first to see if it works well for your display.

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I'm having to create and deliver graphics and icons for a native desktop windows applications that must support Windows 8.1 and variety of screen resolutions which ranges from standard resolution monitors to new 4k high density displays.
Typically for iOS you would deliver an icon using the following size and naming convention to support both standard and Retina 2x devices.
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Retina Display
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My question is would you also follow this same naming and sizing convention for native Windows 8.1 desktop apps? I'm assuming you would, but I'm getting some pushback.
This is slightly new territory in Windows desktop, but I'm hoping there may be a few who have experience and offer there suggestions.
Thank you and best regards,

You will probably get better feedback in the forum for the picture program you are using... what is that program? (Photoshop?)

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You won't get a response from Adobe in these user-to-user forums but you will be heard if you post your frustration via the official bug report form:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
Don't expect a formal personal reply though.

Palette & Panel (UI) size adjustment for High DPI display?

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I just got a nice new Dell XPS laptop with a super high resolution screen (3200x1800), similar to Apple's retina display. I thought it would be great for editing photos on the go. Unfortunately all the user interface elements of Light Room (panels, palettes, menus, etc.) are tiny. They're so small I can barely see them. Is it possible to adjust their size? The only solution I've found is to change the display settings to reduce the resolution to that of a normal monitor, which defeats the purpose. Please tell me their is a way to fix this.
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Paul

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Trust me, it is right time to have it.Skype is pretty much useless on my Win8 desktop

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Hello, As of now, Skype does not work well with Windows DPI scaling. Everything looks fuzzy (fonts, icons, etc).Microsoft's recommendation is to turn off the DPI scaling ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2900023 ) but in this case, the text is too tiny to be read. Basically everyone with a high resolution display is stuck with either tiny of fuzzy fonts, making Skype unusable. It's really a pity because other Microsoft programs such as Office work perfectly with Windows DPI scaling, and Skype also looks great on Mac with Retina display. With high DPI displays becoming more and more common, this is a must have feature. Thanks for reading!

pokegwa wrote:
Hello, As of now, Skype does not work well with Windows DPI scaling. Everything looks fuzzy (fonts, icons, etc).Microsoft's recommendation is to turn off the DPI scaling ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2900023 ) but in this case, the text is too tiny to be read. Basically everyone with a high resolution display is stuck with either tiny of fuzzy fonts, making Skype unusable. It's really a pity because other Microsoft programs such as Office work perfectly with Windows DPI scaling, and Skype also looks great on Mac with Retina display. With high DPI displays becoming more and more common, this is a must have feature. Thanks for reading!It's been two years actually. As you can see Skype is really broken on HDPI displays and the issue is still being ignored/unacknowledged by Skype devs.

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Hi, I just own a new laptop with Windows 8.1 and high resolution screen.
When I start Adobe Reader, the document area seems to be readable, with "normal size fonts", but the options menú in the right side uses a very small fonts size and is hardly readable.
I tried to change it using the Windows "change menu, title, icons size, but withpout success.
Any solution for it?
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Hi, Pat, test done.
Thanks for your suggestion, it was somehow helpful, or, let say, half and half.
It was helpful in the way that when I opened the preferences Windows I was not able to see the full window, there was a part of the right side of the window that was out of the screen. So, when I changed the "scaling settings options and behaviour" from "Auto" (default value) to 100% everything was in the display.... So, this was of high help.
BUT I was not able to find any way in all the suggested document for making the fonts used in the right window of the Adobe Reader, the one where the "Tools" and "Comments" menus are displayed more readable, bigger size, than the one that the product uses by default in the High DPI display.
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BUT
Any other idea that could help for changing the fonts used in the "Tools" or "Comments" menu window?
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Javier

Userform controls disappearing in Word 2013/Windows 8.1 with High-Res display - DLL error?

I have a .dotm file with a large number of modules and userforms. Creating new documents from the template works fine on almost every computer I've tested it on (hundreds), but I've run into a setup that fails consistently.
Two different Samsung ATIV 9's with a high res display and Windows 8 (64bit)/Office 2013 show the same problem:
When opening a new document based on the template for the first time, it works fine. If I open the VB editor, everything looks normal, userforms are intact.
On the second and all consecutive attempts, it throws a "Type Mismatch" error. Opening the VB Editor, I get a compile error on lines of code referencing components of the first userform (alphabetically). Opening that userform, it shows only a blank
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has stopped working..."
I can actually reproduce this behavior starting from scratch - new blank document, save as a .dotm. Create a new userform and add a multipage control. Clicking any control in the toolbox to add it to the form will result in a "Type Mismatch" error,
even though there's no VBA code. I can then successfully add the control to the form. But, once I save and reopen the template, the multi-page control is blank, and the other controls I put on it disappear.
I at one point got an error from the VB Editor that it "could not open macro storage" and the included help suggested that might be due to an incorrect version of vbe7.dll.
The only copy of vbe7.dll I could find was at:
c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\vfs\ProgramFilesCommonX86\Microsoft Shared\VBA\VBA7.1
The dll version was 7.1.10.44
I tried replacing that file with a vbe7.dll file from a working computer (version 7.0.15.89 from c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\VBA\VBA7), but that just resulted in the VB editor not loading at all.
I have tried both a 32bit Click-to-run version of Office 2013, and installing off a CD with 64bit Office 2013, both had exactly the same error.
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Neither the 32bit or 64bit installer for that hotfix would run, they said there was no affected programs installed.
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3) It's not Windows 8.1, since this same template works fine on other machines
4) The first time I open the template on the affected machines, it works fine - but the template is shipped compacted and decompiled. After I open it once and then close, Word has compiled the code and corrupted it somehow, because whatever the first userform
was in the list shows up as blank.
5) It feels hardware-specific, since out of hundreds of machines, I've only seen this behavior on two of the same laptop model - seems like too much of a coincidence.
Is there any chance the VBE in Office 2013 is somehow incompatible with this hardware? If that might be the case, does anyone have any idea how I'd go about testing and/or fixing it?
Any thoughts are much appreciated.

Hi Chris,
Try the following.
Download the IDT Audio installer on the link below and save it to your Downloads folder.
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp59501-60000/sp59861.exe
When done, open windows Control Panel, open Device Manager and open up Sound, Video and Game Controllers. If you see an entry for IDT HD Audio ( or very similar IDT entry ), right click the device and select Uninstall - you should also get a prompt to remove the current driver, tick the box to allow this and then proceed with the uninstall. If there was no IDT entry, just proceed below.
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Tap away at the esc key as you start the notebook to launch the Start-up Menu and then select f10 to enter the bios menu. Press f5 to load the defaults ( this is sometimes f9, but the menu at the bottom will show the correct key ), use the arrow keys to select 'Yes' and hit enter. Press f10 to save the setting and again use the arrow keys to select 'Yes' and hit enter.
Let Windows fully load - it will automatically load an audio driver, but just let this complete. Then open your Downloads folder, right click on the IDT installer and select 'Run as Administrator' to start the installation. When this has completed, right click the speaker icon in the Taskbar and select Playback Devices. Left click 'Speakers and Headphones' once to highlight it and then click the Set Default button - check if you now have audio.
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Support for High-DPI screens Windows

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So, let's say you prefer Windows for your own reasons, and you have a modern monitor with a high pixel count. So, you turn up the DPI to make things easier to read. And then you launch iTunes, because you're, despite preferring Windows on the desktop, happen to prefer iPhones and iPads.
The whole program is blurry unless you disable high DPI for that program, and even then the text becomes too large for the area it's bound to. The solution?
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3543
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So I guess I'd like to submit a bug you could file under "developer attitude/mindset". I'm not sure that the behavior on this stance accurately represents Apple philosophy.
We're mostly a user-to-user community, so there's no guarantee that an Apple person will see your post. If you'd like to make sure an Apple person sees your comment, you could try the iTunes product feedback form:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

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Hi,
I have posted a related query on forum Windows Desktop Development forums > Application Compatibility for Windows Desktop Development.
But have not got any replies yet. Please help.
Here is a link to my query: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/c1d36a88-2dbb-4669-b0d4-d553f6fe63a5/scaling-dialogs-and-property-pages-in-a-mfc-application-to-render-correctly-on-high-dpi-devices?forum=windowscompatibility
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Parul Gupta

Might also try here.
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I was advised in the Windows support forums to ask the question here.

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