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    Alien 15 4K Screen Scaling Photoshop/Illustrator

    Discussion in '2015+ Alienware 13 / 15 / 17' started by madbohem, Feb 27, 2015.

  1. madbohem

    madbohem Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi Everyone, Since I have a Alienware 15 with the 4K Screen I thought to make a link for anyone who might run into issues due to scaling. As I bought my machine with the want to run Photoshop and Illustrator specifically, and found that there was an issue with scaling, I figured this would be a good place to add information.

    I found a great link that deals with this issue with Windows in general,

    http://www.danantonielli.com/adobe-app-scaling-on-high-dpi-displays-fix/

    its not really a Alienware specific problem, but I am sure there can be others like me where this is indeed our first 4k screen and/or laptop.

    This blog link did help me solve the problem.
     
    madbohem, Feb 27, 2015
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    Alienware-L_Porras Company Representative

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    Thanks for sharing this! I'm sure it'll help many folks who do the same as you do on your Alienware.
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Feb 27, 2015
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    Another Scaling Issue is for Netbeans 8, which I use for PHP

    Open C:\Program Files\NetBeans 8.0\etc\netbeans.conf

    Change -J-Dsun.java2d.dpiaware=true to -J-Dsun.java2d.dpiaware=false
     
    madbohem, Feb 27, 2015
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