If Apple gave her the option to change the font size in the menus system-wide, she would probably switch back to the appropriate resolution. I suppose I should see if I can find an appropriate setting for her using TinkerTool… But even then, TinkerTool warns that “some applications will ignore these settings”. And I suspect she uses some of these applications. So that wouldn’t be a solution.

In the long term, we have to anticipate the day when we’ll have flat panel displays with a 300 dpi resolution. Will Mac OS X be fully scalable then? It will have to be. (Of course, we’ll also need graphic card monsters with huge amounts of VRAM, but that’s another issue…)

There is definitely a lack of Mac-friendliness (which usually means lack of user-friendliness, period) on the part of Adobe that has become more and more apparent in the past few years. It’s really too bad.

I help a woman near 70 who won’t budge from Photoshop 4 because the palettes have gotten too small.

I spoke to Adobe years ago about this and one other thing she found disconcerting: the zooming “animation” used in Streamliner (I think it was called) because she seemed to suffer something like the effect of a strobe light to a seizure-prone person. Adobe shrugged.

She also finds a second monitor an anathema since this is the only way I can find to increase the palette size.

Anyway, Adobe’s attention and concern to this kind of details, like the installation
issues you highlight, have definitely grossly faded the luster of the gold standard they used to be, despite Russell Brown’s energy and commitment.