Force Word and other apps to use retina display for text

Sep 04, '12 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: Zettt

I found this hint on Reddit. This might interest anyone using a Retina MacBook Pro.

What you need to do is add a key to Word's Info.plist file. After you've made a backup of Word, right-click on its icon and choose Show Package Contents. Open Info.plist with a text editor, and add the following to the end of the file, just before the ≪/dict> line:

<Key>NSHighResolutionCapable</key>
<String>True</string>
Save the file. When you launch Word, OS X will attempt to run the app at Retina resolution, but since it won't find any Retina graphics only Retina fonts will be substituted.

Getting this to work is a bit tricky, and causes some glitches (at least in Word), but it's worth checking out. I think it's interesting that a plist entry in the Info.plist tells the OS whether an app supports Retina or not.

See the original post on Reddit: Force Word to use Retina Display for Text! This might also work on other programs. Click through from there to see a page with screen shots explaining the entire procedure.

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