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Re: Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac updated for Retina Display

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Post by ComputerGuru » Thu, Sep 20, 2012, 12:36 AM UTC

It's not fully retina. Most of it is, to give credit where credit is due, but it falls short of a 10/10 stars.

The icons within the ribbon bar bar are very hit or miss. If you're on a Retina device, here are some screenshots to illustrate:

http://cl.ly/image/2R2i420N2S2o http://cl.ly/image/1k3w2O2u2D23 http://cl.ly/image/0P2U0u1p451k http://cl.ly/image/0v1u1D3d3W40

In contrast, the main toolbar looks great:

http://cl.ly/image/071q3r3l3i30

I also had the same issue as a number of other people where the app did not launch in Retina mode the first time around, and needed to touch the *.app files to make it happen.

Obviously, MS Office is a huge suite with an enormous number of resources. It's no mean feat, and just getting the basics up to retina is a great accomplishment. Personally, I'm just glad to have the editor in retina - I'd been opening Word documents in Pages for months now. Especially when you consider that some of these images probably come as-is from the Windows team and they may not even have access to them in higher resolution, I guess I can completely sympathize with the current implementation.

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac updated for Retina Display

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Post by trotsky » Thu, Sep 20, 2012, 1:10 AM UTC

Too bad the remote desktop tool that comes with office is still pixel doubled, the win8 engine looks great in hidpi under fusion.

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac updated for Retina Display

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Post by mh- » Thu, Sep 20, 2012, 5:51 AM UTC

dougbarrett wrote: post #7

wells-riley wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. Apps like Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, and AfterEffects would be amazing with Retina compatibility. I think everyone is anxiously awaiting an updated Photoshop, but I'm just not sure how they'd do it. I've been thinking about it for a few weeks, but it's a pretty major problem. Ps is all about mapping an image to exact pixels, but that's not practical on a Retina display. A 1x image would appear too small (o…

I use Photoshop mainly for front-end web dev. The most common use of it is just slicing up images to be used, having it work on a retina display would be great. It's so common for cutlines to become blurry the more you zoom out on an image, so I think that having it be 1 to 1 pixel density is a must have. I don't believe that since the pixel density is higher in the images, that the actual controls can't be retina fr…

>The most common use of it

I'm sure you meant this, but I wanted to clarify that (I assume) you meant your most common use case.

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac updated for Retina Display

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Post by yskchu » Thu, Sep 20, 2012, 5:52 AM UTC

I find it loads a lot faster now.

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac updated for Retina Display

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Post by dougbarrett » Thu, Sep 20, 2012, 3:11 PM UTC

mh- wrote: post #13

dougbarrett wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Photoshop mainly for front-end web dev. The most common use of it is just slicing up images to be used, having it work on a retina display would be great. It's so common for cutlines to become blurry the more you zoom out on an image, so I think that having it be 1 to 1 pixel density is a must have. I don't believe that since the pixel density is higher in the images, that the actual controls can't be retina fr…

>The most common use of it I'm sure you meant this, but I wanted to clarify that (I assume) you meant your most common use case.

Yes, my most common use. I realize that Photoshop is an extremely powerful program, but if Adobe releases their next version with the option to display the image in a "fine detail mode" it would be a huge help for how I, and I'm sure how a lot of front-end developers use it.