Re: Hi-DPI patches for 4.2

That picture is bizarre in that the gridlines drawn by Calc are not being
doubled. Have you fiddled with the OS DPI stuff?
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT5266

-Keith


On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:17 AM, Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Keith Curtis <keithcu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Keith Curtis <keithcu@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > > Doubling bitmaps is a "hack" but since bigger bitmaps don't exist, it
> > > > is better than doing nothing.
> > >
> > > The problem is that mac, in compatibility mode, already auto-double..
> > > so we end-up with a quadrupling
> > > of the bitmap, which mean you in the end only see a quarter of the
> > > intended icon.
> >
> > Have you made a build with it turned back on? I ask because it doesn't
> > make sense the OS would return DPI != 96 while in auto-doubling mode.
> > That would seemingly break the backward compatibility support the Mac
> > is trying to achieve.
>
> a picture is worth a 1000 words
> _with_ the #ifdef MACOSX removed and _without_ --enable-retina (I could
> take a snapshot of the Info page of the app that show the 'open in
> low-resolution' checked and grey-ed out...)
>
>
> [image: Inline image 1]