How to Fix Font Size and Spacing in Dynamics AX 2012

Have you ever launched an instance of Dynamics AX either in a native client or through an RDP and the navigation menu or other areas of the application have huge fonts or way too much spacing?   Well, I have!

On earlier versions of AX you could go to Tools > Options and adjust the font sizes but on AX 2012 we don’t have this luxury due to a fundamental change where areas of the AX interface use your windows settings rather than X++ settings.

I was talking to one of our Developers and he says:  “Do you know what you can do to fix that?” and I said “Nope, I have no clue”.

Long story short, you can make a simple change that will help you resolve this issue.  Follow these steps:

1. Right-click on the icon you use to launch AX and select Properties.

2. Select the Compatibility tab.

3. Mark the option called:  Disable display scaling on high DPI Settings.

4. Launch AX using the Icon that you just changed the settings for.

Here are before and after screenshots.

BEFORE:  Before the property change, you can see below the navigation pane has huge font and the area page has very small fonts.

AFTER:  You can see that the things normalized.  The navigation menu is much smaller and the area page increased in size.