Mnemosyne on retina Macbook looks grainy, low resolution

johanv...@gmail.com

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Apr 2, 2017, 4:16:05 PM4/2/17

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I just got a retina Macbook and downloaded Mnemosyne again (coming from Snow Leopard), but it looks grainy, as in: low resolution. Is this a common thing on the newer Macs (or laptops with better screens), or did something go wrong installing the program?

Peter Bienstman

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Apr 3, 2017, 3:05:55 AM4/3/17

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Hi,

You need to start Mnemosyne with the "--high-dpi-scaling" command line option.

Additionally, it seems you need to enable some other settings in the Info.plist file as well (see http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/highdpi.html).

Cheers,

Peter

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johanv...@gmail.com

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Apr 3, 2017, 10:05:55 AM4/3/17

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Hi Peter,

I'm not sure where to change what. Could you tell me what to do?

Thanks,

Johan

Op maandag 3 april 2017 09:05:55 UTC+2 schreef Peter Bienstman:

Hi,

You need to start Mnemosyne with the "--high-dpi-scaling" command line option.

Additionally, it seems you need to enable some other settings in the Info.plist file as well (see http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/highdpi.html).

Cheers,

Peter

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Subject: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Mnemosyne on retina Macbook looks grainy, low resolution

I just got a retina Macbook and downloaded Mnemosyne again (coming from Snow Leopard), but it looks grainy, as in: low resolution. Is this a common thing on the newer Macs (or laptops with better screens), or did something go wrong installing the program?

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Peter Bienstman

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Apr 3, 2017, 10:16:51 AM4/3/17

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Hi,

I’m afraid not, as I don’t have a Mac. Also, I think our Mac packager does not have a retina display. The suggestion about the Info.plist file came from another user.

Cheers,

Peter

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Hi Peter,

I'm not sure where to change what. Could you tell me what to do?

Thanks,

Johan

Op maandag 3 april 2017 09:05:55 UTC+2 schreef Peter Bienstman:

Hi,

You need to start Mnemosyne with the "--high-dpi-scaling" command line option.

Additionally, it seems you need to enable some other settings in the Info.plist file as well (see http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/highdpi.html).

Cheers,

Peter

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Subject: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Mnemosyne on retina Macbook looks grainy, low resolution

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Apr 3, 2017, 3:53:56 PM4/3/17

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Can't get it to work and googling it doesn't help me either so far. Could that other user maybe explain how it's done? Or anybody else who knows how to fix this?

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Devin Howard

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Apr 4, 2017, 11:06:47 AM4/4/17

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Hi Johan

To edit your Info.plist, you can do the following:

1. Open Finder, and locate the Mnemosyne application (probably by going to the "Go" menu at the top, hitting Applications, and finding Mnemosyne)

2. Right click the Mnemosyne app, and click "Show Package Contents".

3. A window pops up. Open the "Contents" folder, and you'll see Info.plist.

4. I recommend copy-pasting the file to your Desktop as a backup before editing.

5. Open with TextEdit or something like that and you'll see a whole bunch of XML code.

If you follow the pattern of keys and strings, it should be doable to edit it by hand inside text edit. Make sure you're in Plain Text mode: the way to do that is by opening the Format menu at the top. If it says "Make Rich Text" in the menu, you're good. If it says, "Make Plain Text", then select that item and TextEdit will convert the file to plain text mode for you.

Then you'll be able to add another entry. Here's an example of one entry in my file right now:

<key>CFBundleDisplayName</key>

<string>Mnemosyne</string>

That means it's setting the "CFBundleDIsplayName" key to have a value of "Mnemosyne". Looking at the link Peter provided, try copy-pasting these four lines into the file. Make sure it's BELOW the line that says "<dict><key>CFBundleIconFile</key>" and ABOVE the line that says "</dict>".

<key>NSPrincipalClass</key>

<string>NSApplication</string>

<key>NSHighResolutionCapable</key>

If this works for you, please let me know and I'll include this addition in our build scripts so that in future versions you won't need to make this change.

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Apr 17, 2017, 1:10:29 PM4/17/17

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Hi Devin,

Sorry, took a while. Just tried it, but doesn't help. Any suggestions?

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Hi, try this http://retinizer.mikelpr.com/

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Dan Schmidt

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Nov 11, 2017, 11:37:05 AM11/11/17

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As of Mnemosyne 2.5, the following solution works for me (macOS 10.12.6).

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