Update 18 UI/UX Problem: Icon Sizes too small on 4K monitor

[David.P]

OK so I just bought the all new HiDPI version of Xara Designer Pro after sadly having had to wait for HiDPI support for many years, and almost dropping Designer over it.



Only to find that, of all things, NOT EVEN the icons on the main toolbar are HiDPI but instead still old and blurry.

Come on Xara Team, this is ridicoulus.

[gwpriester]

Sheesh, that looks like the old 256 color model.

[Acorn]

Only to find that, of all things, NOT EVEN the icons on the main toolbar are HiDPI but instead still old and blurry.
Come on Xara Team, this is ridicoulus.

David, the option has been out there for quite a time so I find it amazing that you have discovered such a failing, yet no one else has reported it.
I hear it went through extensive beta testing.

I cannot affirm your statement as as do not have a 4k monitor.
Instead, I use my XDA across monitors with different resolutions and I cannot detect any problem.
I have used MS Magnifier here, at 1000% scaling and text and icons seem no worse than those on the Desktop.



After all this, I do find Xara Xtreme 5's toolbar to be crisper and cleaner.

If anyone has a mechanism to determine the efficacy of Xara's implementation, I would appreciate hearing how.

Acorn

[handrawn]

it is not as quite as crisp as some other programs such as painter 2022 on my 4k cintiq, either at 200% scaling [recommended] or 100% scaling [native]



can't say I notice the difference when using the progams though