Re: [Skim-app-users] Yosemite and Skim resolution

2015-02-06 Thread Ivan Werning
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 5:58 AM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: For those who see the fuzzy font rendering on Yosemite (probably if you don;t have a retina display), how does doing the following affect this? In Terminal.app type the following (while Skim is not running!):

Re: [Skim-app-users] Yosemite and Skim resolution

2015-01-30 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Oct 24, 2014, at 5:54, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Oct 22, 2014, at 15:24 , Dr Eberhard W Lisse e...@lisse.na wrote: I have noticed same behaviour within the latest TeXShop, which has an internal PDF reader, presumably PDFKit. It's been discussed in various places:

Re: [Skim-app-users] Yosemite and Skim resolution

2014-10-22 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
I have noticed same behaviour within the latest TeXShop, which has an internal PDF reader, presumably PDFKit. On 2014-10-20 20:02 , Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: I seem to see this on my MacBook Air 11 Mid 2013 (ie non-Retina) However, it looks very reasonable and on Presentation mode it is

Re: [Skim-app-users] Yosemite and Skim resolution

2014-10-21 Thread Ivan Werning
PS: a final appendum to my point 2b Perhaps a detail: I just noticed that if you have View set to Automatically Resize and you open a PDF file, then it first renders as in Larger. If you then jiggle the window size, ever so slightly, it immediately switches to a rendering as in Smaller. In other

Re: [Skim-app-users] Yosemite and Skim resolution

2014-10-21 Thread Hooman Javidnia
I can see this effect on my MacBook Pro with non-retina display. Comparing the same PDF file in Preview and Skim, Preview renders a smoother output.  One more thing that I have noticed is the difference in Actual Size zoom setting between Preview and Skim. Whereas Preview opens a page with the

Re: [Skim-app-users] Yosemite and Skim resolution

2014-10-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I'd say it does not make much of an indication as to were the problem is. But it does show where the problem is not. And that is in Skim itself. The text is displayed by PDFKit. The only thing that we do is change the image interpolation, which should not affect the font rendering and

Re: [Skim-app-users] Yosemite and Skim resolution

2014-10-20 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Oct 20, 2014, at 06:05 , Ivan Werning iwern...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else noticing degrading resolution in Skim after an upgrade to Yosemite. Fonts look very bold and pixelated, and their contrast seems to vary a lot depending on the zoom level. Here is an example for comparison:

Re: [Skim-app-users] Yosemite and Skim resolution

2014-10-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Oct 20, 2014, at 16:43, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Oct 20, 2014, at 06:05 , Ivan Werning iwern...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else noticing degrading resolution in Skim after an upgrade to Yosemite. Fonts look very bold and pixelated, and their contrast seems to vary a lot depending on

Re: [Skim-app-users] Yosemite and Skim resolution

2014-10-20 Thread Chiyuan Zhang
I can confirm the issue on my Macbook Pro with retina display. The skim rendering does look darker and a little bit fuzzier than the preview rendering on the new Yosemite system. - chiyuan On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Adam R. Maxwell amaxw...@mac.com wrote: On Oct 20, 2014, at 06:05 ,

Re: [Skim-app-users] Yosemite and Skim resolution

2014-10-20 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
I seem to see this on my MacBook Air 11 Mid 2013 (ie non-Retina) However, it looks very reasonable and on Presentation mode it is fine/unchanged. So, all in all I don't mind. el On 2014-10-20 17:01 , Chiyuan Zhang wrote: I can confirm the issue on my Macbook Pro with retina display. The skim