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I recently purchased a new Yoga 2 Pro with a gorgeous 3200 x 1800 display. My main purposes for this device was to do some heavy lifting on the the
road with many of my professional applications. I was quickly discouraged when I first fired up Fireworks, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Illustrator to find
that I needed a magnifying glass to see simple menu options.
There is the simple solution of downing the resolution to 1600 x 900 and changing the scaling to 100%, but you cut your gorgeous display down to a
quarter of its previous glory…and that’s not the point.
SO! Rather than change a bunch of setting every time I needed to use a few apps by Adobe, I started to seek out a better solution without much luck.
Long answer: When the apps load, Windows asks if the app is High DPI aware and these apps answer “yes”. Which is why you end up with an interface
for ants.
The solution:
Have the app tell Windows that it is not DPI aware and let it scale everything properly. (Granted, this is not the ideal solution, but it does make the apps
usable again)
How it is done:
1. Tell Windows to look for an external manifest file.
2. Create the external manifest files.
For reference, here is a link to a Microsoft support file on the topic: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912949/en-us
For Windows to use the external manifest file, you will have to change the name of the the file to the executable of the application.
Here are the files I created for my machine (Right-click and save to use on your machine):
photoshop.exe.manifest
fireworks.exe.manifest
illustrator.exe.manifest
dreamweaver.exe.manifest
Now place this file in the same directory as your executable. All of the ones listed above are are in pretty straight forward locations like C:\Program Files
(x86)\Adobe or C:\Program Files\Adobe.
That is it! It should look great now. No need to reboot or change anything else.
Video Example
Download .reg file (Right Click Save Link As..): ExternalManifestFile-REGISTRY-DanAntonielli.com.reg
Download example Manifest file (Right Click Save Link As..): fireworks.exe.manifest
UPDATE July 2015: This solution also works with Windows 10!