SwitchResX is known to work up to Yosemite, if you already installed El Capitan, you might read the latest blog post of SwitchResX author. Here’s a screenshot (done with this new setting activated): Save, reboot and you should have a nice 1920 x 1080 HiDPI profile availabe either in the SwitchResX menu bar. This is a virtual resolution that will allow the system to create an acceptable HiDPI profile. Once you installed the tool, you’ll need to pick your Thunderbolt Display, and select the + button and add a custom scaled resolution of 3840 x 2160. Maybe other can to the same, but I’ll describe how I did it with this one (€ 14 – still cheaper than buying a different screen – and most of you like you screen aren’t you?). You’ll need to get a shareware named SwitchResX. We’re close, let’s know try to setup a non-2X retina configuration.

You might try it, but you’ll see everything twice bigger and honestly, it is not very usable. In the System Preference Display option, you’ll see an new resolution, half of your screen resolution. Sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/ DisplayResolutionEnabled -bool trueĪnd log-out from your session. Open Terminal app and paste the following command, type your password: There’s one trick you might use to enable HiDPI. On non retina displays like Apple 27″ monitor, we can’t any HiDPI option. So, here’s the holly grail, please be aware of some limitation: I was unlucky to find any tricks fix InDesign UI, and the only way to get ID toolbars bigger would be to tune down your screen resolution, making everything just ugly, not an option when you’re *working* with ID. I don’t think we can blame Adobe here or even Apple OS X, it is more a design weirdness Apple decided to make a screen with high density of pixel per inch, but still below HiDPI screen (well known as Retina). I’ve been helping a graphic designer who was struggling with this “issue”.

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