That screenshot was from my iMac but the quality is about the same on the Macbook Pro.
-chris On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Chris Menzel <chris.men...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you for posting that screenshot, Stephan. However, I believe I'm > getting much better resolution than in your screenshot (under Lyx 2.1.2.2) > on both my rMPB and my retina iMac by scaling up the resolution to the next > higher setting above the default (on the iMac, the Displays preference pane > calls it "2880x1620", but of course with the far higher retina pixel > density) and using MinionPro as the screen font: > http://cmenzel.org/LyX-screenshot.pdf. To my eyes, the scaled up setting > has no effect on the quality of the display in other programs (though you > might want to use larger fonts than you would with the default setting). > Others screen fonts that (unlike MinionPro > <http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2012/11/10/installing-minion-pro/>) > are part of the MacTeX 2014 distribution, e.g., Palatino, seem to me to > look almost as good. > > -chris > > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Stephan Witt <st.w...@gmx.net> wrote: > >> Am 13.01.2015 um 17:30 schrieb Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org>: >> >> > On 01/13/2015 09:11 AM, Philippe Lemoine wrote: >> >> I was also wondering if there was any hope of seeing a version of LyX >> that >> >> supports Retina display anytime soon. There seems to be a patch out >> there, >> >> but I was under the impression that it was more like a hack and that >> there >> >> might be compatibility issues with future official versions of LyX. >> > >> > If I'm not mistaken, we have hi-DPI support now in the master >> development branch, but you have to use Qt 5.x to get it, and there are >> still some bugs being ironed out. But I expect 2.2.0 to include this >> feature, and we are working toward that now. >> >> Yes, support for retina display on Mac and hi-DPI in general is on the >> way and will be possible in LyX 2.2.0. >> There are some issues and it's not sure when it will be finished though. >> >> But LyX 2.1.x on retina display is usable also. >> >> To make a comparison of both versions possible I've made a side-by-side >> screen shot. >> You can find it here: >> >> >> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27842660/Bildschirmfoto%202015-01-13%20um%2022.11.55.png >> >> Stephan > > >
