One machine I use AD on has a 4K monitor. I like Windows DPI scaling set to 150% for this particular monitor as it is most comfortable to my eyes. However, AD has weirdly large text and annoyingly larger gaps around text, making it uncomfortable to use. I find that AD is much more pleasant to use at 125% scale, but then the rest of Windows is smaller than I'd like. Is there anything that can be done about this?
Both Altium and Windows are up to date (AD 20.0.11, Win10 1909 / 18363.592).
Task Manager shows X2.exe's DPI awareness as "System", for what that worth.
I attempted to set DPI options on the Start Menu shortcut for AD (located in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu) and couldn't find a combination of options that actually helped instead of just making things worse. In particular I was expecting the checkbox labelled "Use this setting to fix scaling problems for this program instead of the one in Settings", combined with setting my desired scale factor in the "Open Advanced scaling settings" link, to do what I wanted, but it seemed to set all of Windows to 125% instead of just AD. (Is there any documentation for what this option really does or how it's supposed to be used? I couldn't dig up anything by searching, but Google is really not what it used to be....)
Much of the advice I could find on the 'net is outdated, referring to old or very old versions of Windows 10, or in many cases just the blind leading the blind in voodoo rituals. Thus I figured I'd ask 'round these parts. Any guidance is appreciated, even if it's just pointing me to the right manual page so I can actually RTFM.
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