Hi everyone,
I’m having an issue with the view between my laptop and my monitor. When away from home, I write on my laptop alone and when home I connect my laptop to my desk monitor. When things look normal on my laptop, they look huge on my monitor, and if I adjust the font size and everything in “Options/Appearance” to look normal on my monitor, then they look microscopic on my laptop. The problem is only related to Scrivener; the scaling is fine for other applications, such as Chrome or Outlook. The other nuance is that this only happens in my current project; when I create a new project, the issue doesn’t happen and the scaling is normal. Does anyone have an idea about how to fix this?
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Try creating a blank project and drag your current wip a(or a chapter or two) into it and see if the problems recurs. If not then the project is corrupted and I would just move the information over and carry on.
The way to overcome scaling issues between disparate displays (4K laptop, 1089p external monitor) is to move whatever is on one screen to the other by:
- Opening a window as full screen. Obviously, this can’t happen with menu popups, which never display full screen.
- Use Win+Shift+Left or Right, depending on which direction you’re switching, and things will look normal, except the down arrows in the menu commands, which render somewhat larger.
4K
to 1089p – abnormally large down arrows.
Moving the full screen Windows from an initial 1089p display to a 4K display in the same way renders the down arrows normally on the 1089p display and nearly invisible on the 4K screen.
Perhaps the developers should look into this single aspect, because everything else if fine.
Moving snapped windows or reduced windows is a monstrosity, not worth using.
In my experience, only Scrivener has this problem, along with the Kindle app, so there’s something lacking in its display rendering capabilities. Office, web browsers, other third-party apps don’t have a problem re-rendering to a reasonably relative desired size on the fly by a simple drag between displays, except dimensions of what is displayed will be affected by the display sizes.
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Thank you for this. the Win+Shift+Right worked for me.
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This didn’t work for me. I use a Microsoft Surface Pro tablet and an external HP 27inch monitor. The recommended resolution for the Tablet is 2736x1824 while the external monitor is 1920x1080.
As others have mentioned, if I drag the Scrivener window to the external monitor, the fonts etc are huge. So I tried the Win-Shift-Right mentioned above. The scaling was good, however I lose most of the binder, all of the top navigation bar and part of the right hand side of the Inspector window.
Make sure the window you’re swapping between screens is set to full screen first.
Menu items, which generally can’t be set to full screen tend to render awful ugly (too large or tiny–depending on which way you’re swapping), but I have no problem with the general interface, e.g. Binder-Editor-Inspector as a complete window.
Coming back to this. Had another Windows 11 update. Now the Win-shift-right doesn’t work at all! Can’t drag as it has the same problem as before. Becoming unworkable.
Surely things weren’t meant to be this damned hard.
This happens to me after the update. Sometimes it does work for me after a bunch of tries. I think I usually drag it from one monitor to the other and then do win-shift-right, or I close Scrivener, reopen it, and then it works. Frustrating, to be sure.
I found an answer to the Win-Shift-Right not working!!!
In this post Redirecting
Turning on Snap Windows and it’s working again.
Having this issue too (Windows 11). Wasn’t a problem before because both laptop and monitor were 1080p, but now I’m working on a higher res laptop with a 1080p monitor. My best option so far has been to close Scrivner, set the second monitor as my “primary monitor”, and repopen it. Sometimes I need to close and re-open Scrivner itself a good three or four times.