Retina Display on MacBook pro
Dear Support,
probably you don't have an answer yet but I just wanted to be sure.
I work on an 15" Retina Mac Book pro and use parallels to work under Windows (since I have to for some work related stuff). Parallels has an feature that lets you run windows as good as it can in a retina mode meaning very high resolution. I understand that the application wasn't made for retina resolutions and that therefore the images look a bit blurry. However, is there any reason why the text look blurry as well? As you can see in the attachment there is a big difference in how, in this case the windows explorer looks (but it's the same for other applications as e.g. the office suit), and how the remote desktop manager looks.
Do you know if there is anything that I can try to get at least the text in the same resolution as how other windows applications run?
And secondly, I know you're working on a mac version (which I am desperately waiting for ;-) ), but will you for this applications also make sure it runs fine on a retina display since more and more mac's are delivered with retina displays?
Kind Regards,
Nico van der Linden
edited by nicolinden on 3/17/2013
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All Comments (8)
Hi
The MAC version will definitely be made for the retina display.
As for the Windows version, this would mean a major rework of everything UI related. Just making the inventory of the required adjustments would be a large effort. We'll have to discuss it internally to see where this fits in our current plans.
Regards
Maurice
Hi Maurice,
I wouldn't do it if I were you :-) I Was just wondering if you knew an simple option so that the application would use the windows font.
But I get more and more reasons to really look forward for the mac version ;-). Just let me know if you need a beta tester (can't say it enough ;-))
Kind Regards,
Nico
Hi
All I found was http://kb.parallels.com/114655, which points at responding the High-DPI settings.
Maybe Richard will find something
regards
Maurice
The Parallels 'Best for Retina' setting scales the display to 200%. Once the display is scaled past 125%, Windows forces the app to render it's output to a bitmap and then draws that to the screen. Rescaling that bitmap is what makes the text look fuzzy.
We can avoid this behaviour by checking the 'Disable display scaling on high DPI settings' option in the executable's Properties > Compatability. This will make the fonts nice and smooth, but unfortunately will break the layout of the application as not all elements are HiDPI aware.
Personally, I use the 'Scaled' option in Parallels which puts the scaling at 125%. It's not perfect but I've found it to be a happy medium. If we come across a better solution, I will be sure to implement/share it.
The final resolution will, of course, be to use the Mac version once it becomes available. Rest assured that since I also use a rMBP that we are definitely taking HiDPI displays into consideration!
Thanks,
edited by Richard Markiewicz on 3/18/2013
Richard Markievicz
Dear Richard,
thanks for your reply, I indeed decided to switch back to scaled as well. To be honest, your application is not the only application that you need to tweak to let it look good under windows in retina mode.
But it is very good news to hear that the mac version will be running under retina, I think I will just move to this application as soon as it is out.
But I don't know if I mentioned it already ;-) but if you need beta testers... ;-)
Regards,
Nico
Hi Nico,
Just came across this thread, I have been using the scaled option as well, but I have also been running my VM in coherence mode. Have you tried this?
Regards
John
Hi John,
thanks for your reply, I was using the scaled version since I used more applications under windows then just the RDM. However, most of them I have now replaced with mac tools itself so I now use RDM indeed in coherence mode and that works great as well.
Kind Regards,
Nico...
Hi Nico,
Pretty much in the same boat. My only problem is that I need to run Lync 2013 client, so I have worked my MS requirements down drastically and hoping that by end of 2013, a release of Office2013 for OS X will be ready...
Cheers
John