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List of Retina Ready Apps (3rd Party)

And Another Application...

And yet another application that could be added to the "Text Rendering Crisp under Retina" List would be the latest release of...

LibreOffice 3 v3.5.4.2

Once again, there is no indication that LibreOffice 3 is (or will be) Retina-compatible, but it looks fine as is.

This is particularly important to me, because, as most of you know, the current versions of Excel and Numbers look pretty bad on the Retina MBPro.

To be clear, I primarily tested the Spreadsheet and Text Document modules, and both looked great. I briefly tested the Presentation, Drawing, Database, and Formula modules, and those modules also looked great.

---Steve

Standard MacBook Pro 15 / Retina
 
Here's a Screenshot of Lightroom:
lightroom_retina.png


Icons and Buttons are a little blurry, text is crisp...
(the photos are from the Nikon website)
 
stevelam said:
Lol what? Sublime is not a word processor. It's a code editor. No there still aren't any retina friendly word processors.
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Yes, there are:

Mellel
Nisus Writer Pro
Libre Office

On all three, the text is sharp. Icons are still standard-rez, but they don't distract.
 
lucas3d said:
Thanks a lot !!!!
Photos are blurry too...

I hope Adobe will be release soon version 4.2 beta with Retina support !!!
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I don't notice any blurriness in my photos at all. I think it's even a stretch to call the icons and buttons blurry. There's a slight bit of pixelation if you're looking hard for it but the app is completely usable and looks very good (from the images and text).

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JefferyShin said:
Um... iWork?
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iWork isn't a word processor. Pages is, and it's not retina ready.

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KingArthurVI said:
...:( I hope Apple comes out with a retina patch for the iWork suite, not having it optimized is just plain embarrassing to be honest.
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My thought is that they must be rushing to get the new iWork suite out the door at the same time as Mountain Lion in a couple of weeks. Otherwise they would have had it ready when the rMBP shipped.
 
How is vncviewer ?

From my macbook pro(hi-res mid 2010), I connect to vncserver running on linux/unix machines at work. It works great at 1680x1050 resolution.

One of the biggest reason to move to retina macbook pro will be to access my vnc session at 1920x1200 resolution. Wanted to check if anyone has tried vncviewer on retina, and is text on vncviewer crisp ?
 
Pupator said:
I don't notice any blurriness in my photos at all. I think it's even a stretch to call the icons and buttons blurry. There's a slight bit of pixelation if you're looking hard for it but the app is completely usable and looks very good (from the images and text).
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You right, image a pixelated not blurry.

I try to understand how Mac OS X manage the two resolutions.
So I zoom close to the main picture.

It's look like the main image are no using Retina display (yet), but the OS manage to create new pixels.

I zoom on the bottom, the two vignettes don't look have the same quality.

The left has the same effect than the main picture, but strangely, the right vignette look using all retina pixel.

Can you do an other screen capture of the grid mode (library) ?

Thanks a lot !!!
 

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malone said:
Editing my post to create a list of Retina-ready apps or announcements of readiness intent. Will try to update occasionally with what's happening in this thread and restructure as it expands.

As of Sat, July 7, 2012 (updated in reverse chronological order):

Retina-updated or available in nightly build

See also: http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/2/3132249/os-x-app-update-retina-display-support

  • Transmission 2.6
  • 1Password (in beta version)
  • Sparrow
  • Parallels
  • VLC
  • Reeder
  • Coda 2
  • Transmit
  • Twitterific
  • Sublime Text 2
  • Xcode
  • Layer Cake
  • Google Chrome (in nightly build and dev channel)
  • Cyberduck (in nightly)

Near-future intentions of update announced or confirmed


Text rendering crisp with Retina

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Seasonality Core is retina ready.
http://getseasonality.com/core

Love this app, been using it for years!
 
JefferyShin said:
My bad. Pages. And yes it is. You go to 'more info' on the application, and deselect the open in low resolution box.
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It really doesn't work as it should. When you deselect "open in low resolution" it works great for the first page... then everything goes blank. If you reselect the low res option everything is there, it just wont render on anything past the first page. It is not ready for prime time.
 
Photomatix Pro (v4.2.2) can be added to the "crisp text" list - the only slight blurriness is the "show more options / advanced options" drop downs, other than everything else is very nice.
 
4rtemidis said:
Here are two more screenshots of lightroom 4:
lightroom_1.png

lightroom_2.png

The photos look better when you see it on the retina screen...
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Thanks a lot !!!
So checking the grid mode, Lightroom look using all retina pixels for all vignettes !! Fantastic ! :)

For the main picture I have the same conclusion than my last post. It's look like not yet using natively all retina pixel (cf attachment).

I don't know if the "standard preview size" have any relation with the display of the picture on the very large screen. Currently Lightroom is limite to 2048 pixels. What's is your setting ?

I 'm curious to see the main picture at 1:1 and 2:1 zoom.
I will receive my rMBP Wednesday, so I will test it if you can't do it.

Thanks again for you help :)
 

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mattonthemoon said:
Pages looks ok if you uncheck the "open in low resolution" in the "Get Info" properties window for the pages.app
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Great tip! I went to the apple store to check this out and it did look pretty good. Funny enough but one of the apple employee's actually asked me how I was able to make the text look so much less blurry.
 
GCWB said:
You realise Lightroom already has Retina support?
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Yes texts and vignettes use retina display.
But the main picture look not using Retina (and all icons too).

You can check my previous posts with my analyse of screen captures.

Adobe add "under consideration" to my idea, so perhaps not all part of Lightroom use Retina Display :)
 
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neilpryde23 said:
Great tip! I went to the apple store to check this out and it did look pretty good. Funny enough but one of the apple employee's actually asked me how I was able to make the text look so much less blurry.
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It's not unticked by default because Apple has yet to iron out the rendering problems. It's there, but not fully optimized yet. Hope iWork gets updated when ML comes out.
 
see here :

Retina Display support in ArchiCAD 16
ArchiCAD 16 is fully functional on Retina Displays. Benefits of using ArchiCAD in full Retina (HiDPI) mode include: remarkably sharp and smooth 2D element and text display.
There are some further improvements that are scheduled in a later update for ArchiCAD 16:
Extended support for trace reference
Retina (HiDPI) resolution support in 3D design environment (OpenGL, Internal Engine)
Minor fixes to icons
 
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