on retina, the display bitmap are 2x scaled.

On 4 September 2014 09:56, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This should be a known issue as it was raised before. The problem occurs
> with any font. It has to do with the VM as far as I understood. I am not
> sure what is needed to be done, though.
>
> Cheers,
> Doru
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> wrote:
>
>> Johan Brichau wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just started using a Macbook pro with retina display.
>>> I notice the fonts are quite blurry. Is there something one can do to
>>> improve that?
>>>
>>> Johan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> What version of Pharo?
>> What version of OSX?
>> What fonts?
>>
>> I'm not sure of these details, but it will give you some things to think
>> about and try (and someone can correct me otherwise).
>> * Pharo's default font is still a bitmap StikeFont. * StrikeFont bitmaps
>> are sub-pixel anti-aliased.
>> * Sub-pixel anti-aliases
>> * Retina display sometimes have sub-pixel rendering turned off, or maybe
>> otherwise problem.
>>
>> Try...
>> * Choosing a TrueType font
>> * Changing some OSX display settings
>>   * http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/
>> 8277/how-does-apples-retina-display-affect-sub-pixel-rendering
>>   * http://superuser.com/questions/457153/getting-
>> crisper-fonts-in-os-x-after-switching-from-windows
>>   * http://www.macworld.com/article/1145157/smoothsnow.html
>>   * http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/
>> 8277/how-does-apples-retina-display-affect-sub-pixel-rendering
>>
>> Please report your results.
>> cheers -ben
>>
>>
>
>
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