Can Lightroom 4.4 scale its interface on a 15-inch 4K/HiDPI display?

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I’m using Lightroom 4.4 on a 15-inch UHD/4K high-DPI display and the interface is very small. Aside from the font size option, is there any way to adjust or scale the Lightroom UI so it’s more usable?

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Basically I don't think you can do what you are trying to do. There are some decent workarounds that you can read about here on a thread about similar functionality in Photoshop(https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1323412).

Lightroom 4.3 added OSX Retina support, then in the 5 Beta Preview they added HiDPI Windows support. This includes automatic scaling of certain aspects. There is no HiDPI setting as it just determines this on it's own as necessary. Because of that I don't think you will find that 4.4 has the option.

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Lightroom 4.4 does not provide a manual UI scaling control beyond font size. In that version, HiDPI support is limited: Lightroom 4.3 added Retina support on macOS, and HiDPI support for Windows appeared later in the Lightroom 5 beta/preview. Lightroom’s scaling behavior is automatic where supported, not user-adjustable, so in 4.4 you generally can’t force broader interface scaling on a 15-inch 4K display.

If the interface is too small, the practical options are workarounds at the operating-system level or upgrading to a newer Lightroom version with better HiDPI support.

Can Lightroom 4.4 scale its interface on a 15-inch 4K/HiDPI display?

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