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Why did V 12.1 Change all the notebook sizes and fonts?

Posted 4 years ago

I installed Mathematica Version 12.1 and there is a huge change in its look. All the notebooks and palettes are HUGE. And yet if I adjust them to 75% or 50% magnification some of the important text becomes too small to read. The entire appearance that I carefully designed with style sheets and that has worked for many previous versions has been destroyed.

I believe that a magnification of 100% should be the standard and should work for most people.

Is there some simple option that can be fixed to restore the previous appearance?

If it's a deliberate change made by Wolfram, what right is there to do that?

Also I still have V12.0 on my computer, but I can't open any notebooks with it.

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There are a number of issues. Support recommended doing a clean start and changing some options. Even when V12.1 is uninstalled there are features in V12.0 that no longer work, such as creating a new notebook in a folder using the right click context menu. In any case, support is going to look at it much more intensely this afternoon so we'll see how it works out.

POSTED BY: Murray Eisenberg
POSTED BY: Murray Eisenberg

I believe Mathematica 12.1 on windows now supports display with high dpi's. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/SummaryOfNewFeaturesIn121.html

Perhaps that causing your troubles. I had some issues running 12 and 12.1 so I removed the old version. It's weird that 12 does not open your notebooks. Perhaps log a call with support?

POSTED BY: l van Veen
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