Re: RDI on Retina Display Mac

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for your reply.

As I mentioned in the original post, I tried the Info.plist approach but it
didn't work for me.

After modifying that file I think I did several things like renaming /
using touch etc.

No joy.

For now I'm back on the Windows machine ( /duck sorry Jon ) but if I get a
bit of time ( haha ) I might have another go, but I certainly had more than
one attempt at messing with the Info.plist file.

best regards,
Craig


On 29 August 2018 at 18:57, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks Jeff.

Frankly, as I said at the time, I had not seen any significant fuzziness
in my RDi. But I went ahead and did this anyway. Now I see the improvement
I guess it really was somewhat fuzzy - guess I had just put it down to my
fading eyesight!

One point re your approach. If - like me - you have installed as
Administrator then "moving" Eclipse doesn't work. It just produces a copy.
However, a simpler approach that works in all cases is to use "Move to
Trash" and then from the Trash take the "Put Back" option. That worked
just fine and I think should work for everyone.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Aug 29, 2018, at 1:03 PM, Jeff Berman <lists1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

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