# Scaling Ignition's designer **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [May 27, 2016, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/scaling-ignitions-designer/11738 "2016-05-27T16:44:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wakaguaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ea666f/32.png) [@wakaguaka](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/wakaguaka)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/scaling-ignitions-designer/11738/1 "2016-05-27T16:44:53Z")
Hello, Is there any workaround for DPI scaling the designer?? I’m currently using Win10 with UHD resolution and it is quite small… I am testing the latest Ignition’s software (7.8). ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/scaling-ignitions-designer/11738/2 "2016-05-27T16:46:50Z")
Reposting a workaround detailed here: [ideas.inductiveautomation.com/fo ... pi-scaling](http://ideas.inductiveautomation.com/forums/255378-ignition-features-and-ideas/suggestions/10401393-high-dpi-scaling) > [@](#): > > If you're willing to get your hands dirty, you can modify a Java 8 installation to work correctly on high-dpi displays. > > Use a program that can modify EXE manifests like [restuner.com/](http://www.restuner.com/). > > Open your JRE's copies of java.exe and javaw.exe, and modify their manifest's setting for true to > false > > And then launch through the native client launcher. ---
**Author:** ![wakaguaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ea666f/32.png) [@wakaguaka](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/wakaguaka)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/scaling-ignitions-designer/11738/3 "2016-05-27T18:45:02Z")
[quote=“Kevin.Herron”]Reposting a workaround detailed here: [ideas.inductiveautomation.com/fo … pi-scaling](http://ideas.inductiveautomation.com/forums/255378-ignition-features-and-ideas/suggestions/10401393-high-dpi-scaling) [quote] If you’re willing to get your hands dirty, you can modify a Java 8 installation to work correctly on high-dpi displays. Use a program that can modify EXE manifests like [restuner.com/](http://www.restuner.com/). Open your JRE’s copies of java.exe and javaw.exe, and modify their manifest’s setting for true to false And then launch through the native client launcher. [/quote][/quote] Thanks for your reply Kevin, Followed your instructions but I still see everything very small. I modified java, javaw, javaws and changed the values to false to the xml node “dpiAware”. Downloaded the native client launcher (I even modified the manifest of clientlauncher.exe and pasted the configuration nodes that are in the java exe files) but nothing. Do I need to specify resolution and DPI information in manifest?? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/scaling-ignitions-designer/11738/4 "2016-05-27T18:54:53Z")
Have you rebooted? I don’t know any more than what was posted - but this procedure did work for me. You’re starting the designer from the native launcher at this point, right? ---
**Author:** ![wakaguaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ea666f/32.png) [@wakaguaka](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/wakaguaka)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/scaling-ignitions-designer/11738/5 "2016-05-30T14:46:50Z")
[quote=“Kevin.Herron”]Have you rebooted? I don’t know any more than what was posted - but this procedure did work for me. You’re starting the designer from the native launcher at this point, right?[/quote] Did the reboot and nothing. I couldnt figure out why it was not working, took a break and today I started all over again. Restored the files that I modified. Searched for the exe files that you mentioned in the previous post and modified only those. Then I thought to search for java.exe and javaw.exe in other locations and I found out that there are other copies in a diferent location: …\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0\_92\bin …\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0\_92\jre\bin Modified the manifest on each directory, rebooted and that did the trick! I didn’t have to download the client launcher again. Thanks again! ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/scaling-ignitions-designer/11738/6 "2016-05-30T15:14:40Z")
For what it’s worth, Java 9 is supposed to add high DPI support to Swing. So… maybe next year some time this mess will be sorted. ---
**Author:** ![oscar.salcedo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/oscar.salcedo/32/11019_2.png) [@oscar.salcedo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/oscar.salcedo)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 11:57am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/scaling-ignitions-designer/11738/7 "2017-10-13T11:57:41Z")
For those still having this issue, you can get around the lack of support for “DPIAware=false” in Java 8 by adding this entry in the resources section of your project’s .jnlp file: `` Save and launch! Cheers! Oscar.