Question how to set font size in Designer 10 Premium menus

**Choctaw** · 17 March 2016, 04:59 PM

Using XARA Des 10 Premium my comment is that the font size in the menu bar, designs gallery, etc are too small. How can they be enlarged to something easier to read.
Thanks for your help

**Egg Bramhill** · 17 March 2016, 05:52 PM

The simplest way is just to resize the button or navbar using the selector tool with aspect locked. Other than this you need to ungroup both Off and Over states and adjust each ellement, then rebuild the button.

**Egg Bramhill** · 17 March 2016, 05:58 PM

Like this

**mwenz** · 17 March 2016, 06:09 PM

I take it to mean the interface. The Xara application itself.

**Egg Bramhill** · 17 March 2016, 06:10 PM

Ah! I didn't read it this way Mike

**Choctaw** · 17 March 2016, 08:19 PM

Yes the interface on the various menus.................they are too small for me to read well. Example at the top of prigram line listing File, Edit, Arrange, Utilities, Share, Window etc.

**Choctaw** · 18 March 2016, 01:09 AM

Originally Posted by mwenz

I take it to mean the interface. The Xara application itself.

Yes your right, all the text presented in that program is small on screen and I want to make it larger. Can you tell me how to accomplish that?

**Choctaw** · 19 March 2016, 01:38 PM

I found no way to change the text size that Xara uses in the various menus. So I had to set the monitors on my computer to 1024 x 768 rather then the 1600 x 900 which is the recommended resolution for Win 10. This lower setting might effect video and pictures, but for now it's necessary so I can read the text menus on Xara. One would expect that such a wonderful web designing program as Xara is becoming they would offer an option to resize the programs menu text size. If anyone ever comes up with a fix I would appreciate it.

**Acorn** · 19 March 2016, 01:58 PM

Originally Posted by Choctaw

I found no way to change the text size that Xara uses in the various menus. So I had to set the monitors on my computer to 1024 x 768 rather then the 1600 x 900 which is the recommended resolution for Win 10. This lower setting might effect video and pictures, but for now it's necessary so I can read the text menus on Xara. One would expect that such a wonderful web designing program as Xara is becoming they would offer an option to resize the programs menu text size. If anyone ever comes up with a fix I would appreciate it.

There is a setting in W10 (System > Display - Customise your display), where you can "Change the size of text, app and other items". I run my monitors at a high resolution and find this approach is useful for one-off situations.

Acorn

**Choctaw** · 20 March 2016, 12:31 AM

Yes Acorn, that is what I have done. I wish there was a setting inside Xara to have any size text for all the various tool bars. I have a connection, Allen Smith who has 100s of videos post on youtube about Xara. He says to his knowledge there is NO way to set menu text in the program. So I am using Win 10 resolution setting and it works find for now.
Thanks for your post.