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Icons WAY too small

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Hello -

On retina displays (like my DELL XPS13), the icons in the icon bar in PDFXchange are just about useless as I cannot click them.

I made some code suggestions to the guys over at Greenshot on how to fix this and they were able to add it to their build.
https://greenshot.atlassian.net/browse/FEATURE-758

Any chance you might add this capability in PDF-XChange as well?

Thank you,

David Carta
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Hi David,

we are creating a Ribbon Interface that will have icon scaling based on screen resolution. I have confirmed this with the development team today.

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Hi @all,

just for the record and for completeness of information, there is a related discussion here
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Btw, I hope that not only the Ribbon UI will have scaling capability -- but also the classic toolbar user interface, because not everyone will want to switch to a Ribbon UI.

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Hi David,

the classic UI will also get scaling icons. :-)
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Phew! Thanks very much Paul, for the information.
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:-D
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There has been an extensive discussion about XChange scaling issues on high DPI displays already and XChange Editor v7 with Ribbon UI is coming.

I just want to mention that in Windows 7 using 4K display and 200% DPI scaling, XChange Editor GUI arrows that are used to expand or collapse Main toolbar items are too tiny to use.

I'm talking about these GUI arrows:

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Here's the ratio between those arrows and other items, like mouse cursor and Close X, minimize buttons:

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Will this be addressed in upcoming versions?

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Hello all,

I have a pre-release version of the Editor V7.0 - and in it there is a "Switch to touch optimized UI" and in that mode - all menu items do get noticeably bigger. My screen is a 4K one, but the DPI is quite normal (111 dpi) - so I do not use windows scaling, and can't really tell if this scales even further on higher DPI screens, and when Windows Scaling is not at 100%, but I would presume this is the case.
Here's a comparison of this Touch optimized UI option turned off(top) and on(bottom) on my screen:
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