pussnbooks Posted March 7, 2024 Posted March 7, 2024 New Affinity 2 user here. Is there a setting to make the font on the labels in the measuring tool larger? It is too small for me to read without pressing my nose up to my screen. Thanks
Old Bruce Posted March 7, 2024 Posted March 7, 2024 Welcome to the forums @pussnbooks, Sadly this is one of the interface problems that people have been asking for (Larger Fonts) for yonks and so far there has been no change. Apparently we just have to live with it. [resigned sigh emoticon] Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
Old Bruce Posted March 7, 2024 Posted March 7, 2024 It would be remiss of me to not at least mention the User Preference for "Larger Font" which I personally find to be still too small. At least here on Mac OS. Hangman 1 Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
pussnbooks Posted March 7, 2024 Author Posted March 7, 2024 (edited) Thank you Old Bruce. It is disappointing they haven't responded to requests for larger fonts. I am on Windows 11. Any chance you can tell me where to find the user interface? Or how to look it up? EDIT: Nevermind, I found it. Apparently UI Font Size is not available on Widows. Edited March 7, 2024 by pussnbooks Updated info Old Bruce 1
GarryP Posted March 7, 2024 Posted March 7, 2024 When using the Area Tool, the value being measured is also shown in the Context Toolbar, which is a little bit larger, but not by a whole lot. If you cannot see the Context Toolbar then you can use menu “View → Show Context Toolbar”. Alfred 1
Alfred Posted March 7, 2024 Posted March 7, 2024 2 minutes ago, GarryP said: When using the Area Tool, the value being measured is also shown in the Context Toolbar, which is a little bit larger, but not by a whole lot. Why is one labelled ‘Length’ and the other labelled ‘Perimeter’? They’re not necessarily the same thing! The term ‘Perimeter’ is very specific, so it probably shouldn’t be used here. Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
GarryP Posted March 7, 2024 Posted March 7, 2024 As I understand it, the Area Tool lets you measure parts of the shapes using different modes so the Perimeter value in the Context Toolbar may show a different value if more than one ‘bit’ of the shape has been selected for measurement. I think, in this example, the Length is the length of the particular ‘bit’ the mouse pointer is over but the Perimeter is all of the ‘bits’ that have been selected, or something like that, I don't use that tool much. Alfred 1
pussnbooks Posted March 7, 2024 Author Posted March 7, 2024 Oh thank you Gary and Alfred. This is very helpful! I think this will solve my problem with this particular tool.
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