Fixing Windows UI scaling with RSD

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Hello! I'm low-vision so my Windows is set to 150% scaling. But RSD is really blown-up on my screen and makes it harder to use! How do I fix this so I can see more on my screen at once?

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I'm afraid this is not a solution, but just a few ideas that one might wish to experiment with. I hope others may have more and better ideas.

1. Instead of increasing Windows Settings > System > Display > Scale from 100%, adjust Settings > Accessibility > Text size.
2. In the SD Inspector panel tick the 'Scroll elements into view when hovering' box to save scrolling up and down the canvas when selecting items using that Inspector panel.
3. My mouse's* centre scroll wheel allows super quick scrolling without rolling the wheel. One just clicks with the wheel and can drag up and down however slowly or quickly one wishes. I find this speeds thing up enormously.
4. Not so cheap, but something that might help in all the use of the computer, would perhaps be a large monitor (or large external monitor in the case of a laptop).

* I guess this facility is not uncommon. My mouse is the cheap (just under UK £20) SteelSeries Rival 3.

Frank
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I hope Coffeecup team adds a UI scaling feature built into the app, because it's clearly supported, whether they intended or not.
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bit late perhaps but I went to the location of the Site Designer.exe in Program Files, right click into Properties, Compatibility, change high dpi settings, program dpi, tick the box and change to use DPI "when I open this program" and also tick override high dpi scaling and change to "system (enhanced)" ("system" also worked for me)

That makes everything smaller again but I find the text a little blurry on my screen. Maybe as I have a 2K/1440p monitor. I guess it might be better at 1080p...

( I am on an older version of Site Designer (v4 build 3285), I can't speak for the latest version )
J
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It doesn't seem to be a problem at all on the Mac version. I wish they would fix this. Here is a side-by-side comparison.
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J wrote:
bit late perhaps but I went to the location of the Site Designer.exe in Program Files, right click into Properties, Compatibility, change high dpi settings, program dpi, tick the box and change to use DPI "when I open this program" and also tick override high dpi scaling and change to "system (enhanced)" ("system" also worked for me)

That makes everything smaller again but I find the text a little blurry on my screen. Maybe as I have a 2K/1440p monitor. I guess it might be better at 1080p...

( I am on an older version of Site Designer (v4 build 3285), I can't speak for the latest version )


You have no idea how much this just helped me... I spent an incredible amount of time trying to figure this out via display settings...

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