Re: RDI on Retina Display Mac -- WDSCI-L

Hi James,

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

I appreciate you letting me know about that option - I wasn't aware of it
so I gave it a go.

I can't honestly say it made any discernible difference for me, but it's
good to know about.

I'm running on an oldish (mid 2012) MacBook so the 15" display is running
at 2880 x 1800.

I'm not saying that RDI is unusable or anything as it stands with the
apparently scaled fonts.
But it's very disappointing to me that most of my apps are crystal clear
with the great ppi of the display, yet RDi has to use some kind of scaling
and by comparison looks a bit lame.
It doesn't seem like it should be an insurmountable problem.

best regards,
Craig

On 16 July 2018 at 21:52, James Littlejohn1 <James.Littlejohn1@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

Re resolution clarity, one thing to try is the 'Open in Low Resolution'
option if it's available on your system.

In the macOS finder, right-click the RDi application icon and select 'Get
Info'. If there is a box for 'Open in Low Resolution', try checking it.
Then start RDi.

I believe this macOS option handles applications more like they're normal
resolution than low resolution. For example, if your retina display is
5120x2880, for the application it will handle it as if the display is
2560x1440.

James Littlejohn
Toronto Software Lab
Rational Developer for i

From: Craig Richards <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio
Client for System i & iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 07/16/2018 04:16 PM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDI on Retina Display Mac
Sent by: "WDSCI-L" <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Brian,

Hmm I couldn't get ACS to see the Inconsolata fonts I loaded in Windows.
I didn't see any obvious selection parameters in the font choosing dialog
that would exclude them.
I wonder if it needs a restart of ACS to recognise them or or something.

I tried Inconsolata for a short while on Windows but it didn't seem quite
as clear as the Consolas font I'd been using and Inconsolata seemed to
have
a fair bit large line spacing ( I forget the technical term for it when
referring to fonts ) so that I got about 10 more lines on the screen for a
10 point font size with Consolas.

Just tried it on the Mac. I installed the font before opening ACS and the
Mac can see it, so maybe that was the issue with Windows not seeing it.

Still doesn't look all that great on the Mac. I don't quite understand why
it shouldn't be crystal clear - there is clearly some kind of scaling or
something going on.

Thanks for posting,
best regards,
Craig

On 16 July 2018 at 20:52, Brian Parkins <goodprophet.bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Craig, for the avoidance of doubt, I use Inconsolata for both ACS 5250
sessions and RDi LPEX. Works just fine - under Windows 10.

Hope this helps.

Brian.

On 16/07/2018 10:48, Craig Richards wrote:

I'm working on my Windows machine rather than the mac today but I've
downloaded that font and it seems decent.

Thanks for the tip.

I'm not sure if it is possible to set ACS to use that font is it?
I've installed it on Windows 10 but I can't see the font when I try to
Edit
| Preferences | Font from the ACS Client Access menu?

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