Good is the new Best

[Roger Eller]

I do remember the pixelated text bug in the 5.x versions.  I really hated
that one.

Oh, and happy new year LiveCoders!!!

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On Dec 31, 2014 5:56 PM, "Marty Knapp" <martyknappster at gmail.com> wrote:

> I may be losing my mind but I just discovered something weird. I'm mostly
> using LC 6.6.5 these days and I have an app that I've struggled to get good
> looking icons (many of them are fairly small). I was making them in
> Photoshop at 2x size and after importing to LC, setting the resizeQuality
> to "best" and scaling them down. But they didn't look that great. I've had
> a few customers complain about the lack of "retina" quality so I finally
> bit the bullet and picked up a refurbished MacBook Pro with a 13" Retina
> display so that I was no longer working blind. To my surprise I found a
> couple of my icons looked great and some not. The ones that looked best
> turned out to have had their resizeQuality set to "good". The ones set to
> "best" didn't look nearly as good. (I know, this is starting to sound like
> "Who's on first!") So I looped through all the images and reset the
> resizeQuality to "good" and now they all look nice and sharp on Retina. But
> isn't this backward? Curious, I opened the project in LC 6.7 rc4 to see if
> this "bug" was fixed but it seems to be the same. On a non-retina display
> "good" and "best" look about the same (and not all that great with small
> icons).
>
> As an aside, I also opened some of my apps, built with LC 5.0.2, on my new
> Retina MacBook and they look terrible - even the text looks bad - even the
> text in system windows (print dialog etc) - very pixelated. The same stacks
> opened with LC 6.6.5 look fine.
>
> Anybody else seeing this?
>
> Maybe "good" is the new "best!"
>
> Happy new year to everyone,
> Marty Knapp
>
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