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William_Le
William_Le
October 17, 2023
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The Zoom @100% doesn't represent actual reality.... am I crazy?

  • October 17, 2023
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See title; that’s the gist of my question.

Further elaborated: When zooming @100% it’s not actually accurate with what I see on my screen. Rather, setting zoom @83% is actually closer what’s represented to reality (e.g., on a browser!). See image attached where I’ve proved this strange bug.

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This question has already been asked, but there isn’t a definitive answer. Curious to know how people deal with this.

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Best answer by Jairo

xD

It is going to get weird, but believe me, i think i got you bro.

Press ctrl+shift+alt+“+” or “-” to change the UI zoom.

Now the thing gets freaky:

  • Put your view at 100%
  • Hide UI (ctrl+º)
  • Make a screen shot of a part of the canvas (win+shift+s)
  • Paste it above your reference canvas
    image

If the pasted image is bigger than reference, you have the UI zoom messed up.
Change it and repeat.

image

Once the screenshot matches the reference frame, your UI zoom is at a 100% and you should see objects by their real size when zooming at 100%

(Or just press ctrl+shift+alt+“-” until you cannot make it smaller, then ctr+shift+alt+“+” six times)

5 replies

Jairo
JairoAnswer
October 18, 2023

xD

It is going to get weird, but believe me, i think i got you bro.

Press ctrl+shift+alt+“+” or “-” to change the UI zoom.

Now the thing gets freaky:

  • Put your view at 100%
  • Hide UI (ctrl+º)
  • Make a screen shot of a part of the canvas (win+shift+s)
  • Paste it above your reference canvas
    image

If the pasted image is bigger than reference, you have the UI zoom messed up.
Change it and repeat.

image

Once the screenshot matches the reference frame, your UI zoom is at a 100% and you should see objects by their real size when zooming at 100%

(Or just press ctrl+shift+alt+“-” until you cannot make it smaller, then ctr+shift+alt+“+” six times)

    William_Le
    William_LeAuthor
    October 21, 2023

    Holy moly… YOU ARE A WIZARD AT FIGMA!

    Thank you!!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

    Adam_Parker1
    Adam_Parker1
    June 27, 2024

    Was having the same issue and this also fixed it for me, thank you! Took me a minute to understand that we were talking about adjusting the overall GUI scale. Have no idea how this was changed from default, or if default was just not correct with my screen size, but this fixed the issue perfectly. 😀

    Darren_Shan
    Darren_Shan
    July 10, 2024

    Thanks Jairo! I was looking everywhere to find solutions. This does help!!

    And I also found it’s under the View / Interface Scale. You can see the current UI scale level.

    Screenshot 2024-07-10 at 12.02.57 PM

      Jessica_Gonzalez
      Jessica_Gonzalez
      New Member
      January 16, 2025

      Thanks Jairo! I was looking everywhere to find solutions. This does help!!

      And I also found it’s under the View / Interface Scale. You can see the current UI scale level.

      Screenshot 2024-07-10 at 12.02.57 PM

       

      Thank you for this simple fix! Somehow my Interface Scale was set to 80% and it was driving me bonkers. 

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