Timeline for Font smoothing on external display working badly. (rMBP)
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| Mar 9, 2017 at 18:04 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://farm9.staticflickr.com/ with https://farm9.staticflickr.com/
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| Sep 5, 2014 at 20:17 | comment | added | Pharap | The attached image appears to have expired, do you have a replacement? | |
| Sep 25, 2012 at 21:41 | comment | added | Corky | In my case, the text had colored fringes using software zooming, indicating that subpixel rendering was occurring, but viewed without the software zoom the subpixel rendering stopped occurring. This points to the system rendering everything on a much larger pixel grid (perhaps with subpixel rendering working there), but the benefits are lost in the downscaling. The benefit of this approach is that the rMBP does allow windows to straddle displays and look reasonable on both, just lower quality on the lower-res display. The anti-aliasing during downscaling even occurs with the mouse pointer! | |
| Sep 25, 2012 at 21:39 | history | edited | Corky | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added a screen photograph to show the effect
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| Sep 24, 2012 at 11:09 | comment | added | Lri | I thought retina MacBook Pros wouldn't change the way text is rendered on external displays. But then again, what would happen if a window was partially on the internal display and partially on an external display? Are you sure that there was no subpixel rendering in the photos? Text would normally appear monochromatic when zooming in if it was disabled. | |
| S Sep 23, 2012 at 16:29 | review | Late answers | |||
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| S Sep 23, 2012 at 16:29 | review | First posts | |||
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| Sep 23, 2012 at 16:25 | history | answered | Corky | CC BY-SA 3.0 |