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Christopher Bort  
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 More options Aug 27 2012, 4:29 pm
From: Christopher Bort <top...@thehundredacre.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:29:56 -0700
Local: Mon, Aug 27 2012 4:29 pm
Subject: Re: Retina Display Support
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On 8/27/12 at 12:08 PM, law...@theculvers.us (Lawson Culver) wrote:

>This makes me wonder if it's all of our systems that aren't working,
>or perhaps you're not comparing to a retina-enabled application.
>Here's a screenshot of 18pt Monaco.  The top line is Text Wrangler,
>and the bottom line is Text Edit.

>https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6717840/textwrangler-retina.png

OK, I had not compared side-by-side like that. Now that I have,
I do see the same difference OMM. From all the complaints on the
list, I had expected the difference to be dramatic and render
TextWrangler virtually unusable. Now that I see what all the
fuss is about, I personally find the difference to be quite
minor and not at all distressing. For normal use, TextWrangler
is still quite readable to me. It would be nice to see
TextWrangler made to be retina-enabled, but for my own use I'm
not terribly concerned about it.

>On Aug 27, 2012, at 1:58 PM, Christopher Bort wrote:

>>On 8/27/12 at 6:36 AM, law...@theculvers.us (Lawson Culver) wrote:

>>> I left my MacBook Pro at work, so I wasn't able to (constructively)
>>> comment
>until now.
>>>   Monaco at 9pt is actually intentionally pixellated/blocky,
>>>so it
>>> looks the same on a retina vs. non-retina display.  I code in 18pt
>>> (who's blind now?), and the difference is painfully obvious.

>>I'm aware of Monaco's design and purpose. It's why I prefer it for
>>plain text.
>As I've said, I've tried a variety of fonts and sizes, up to 24 pt, in
>TextWrangler. Font smoothing seems to be working just fine and
>everything is perfectly readable for me. I don't see any difference
>between TextWrangler and other applications on this system. I believe
>that people are seeing issues with text rendering on Retina displays,
>but on my own install, it appears to be behaving as expected. I'm
>simply offering this as a data point that might suggest there could be
>some other factor(s) in play besides just the retina display.

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Christopher Bort
<top...@thehundredacre.net>

 
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