Re: RDI on Retina Display Mac

Last month there was a thread about getting RDi to look like a retina app on a retina Mac.  I don't know if the issue has
been resolved, but this is how I got it to work.  

In case anyone wants to run RDi on a retina display, the text will be blurry. This is because the eclipse application doesn't
know to enable high DPI fonts. I created a quick & dirty Info.plist file as a work around. Right click on Eclipse.app in
/Applications/IBM/SoftwareDeliveryPlatform and select Show Package Contents. Then create a file called Info.plist in the
Contents folder that consists of the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/Property-List-1.0.dtd";>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>NSHighResolutionCapable</key> <true/>
</dict>
</plist>


To get it to take effect, move Eclipse.app to another folder and then back; this will refresh macOS's internal caching of
this property. Voila, retina fonts!

I hope this helps someone.

Jeff

On Jul 13, 2018, at 6:52 PM, Craig Richards <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all,

Has anyone had any success making RDi look clear on a Retina Display Mac
running native resolution?

Mine is still looking pretty blurry.
I've tried a few things from posts on the net, talking about adding some
keys to the Info.plist file in the RDI package, and then renaming the
package etc but they don't seem to have made any difference.

I'm using a pretty old version of Eclipse for my Java development (Helios)
and the fonts in that version of Eclipse look sharp.

I've just upgraded the Mac to High Sierra - it's a 2012 15" MacBook Pro
Retina.
I had to install the latest SDK to run ACS.
Then I had to install the Legacy Java6 to run RDi.

Everything runs fine and works well, it's just that the fonts don't seem
very clear in RDi. I've tried a few different fonts and font sizes.

Has anyone else had this issue?
Thanks kindly,
Craig