I am currently writing an eBook that will initially be sold as a PDF but may later go on the iBook store, however I don’t have a Retina display myself and I am wondering if there is any kind of workaround or best practice for making screenshots from a normal display look acceptably sharp on a Retina display?
I have Photoshop along with the iOS simulator that shows how the iPad or iPhone will look if they can be used in some way but I mainly need to get menu items and dialogue boxes from various applications in OS X and Windows looking good on Retina screens. I really don’t want to pay out for a Retina display purely for this task that would only take a few hours of work at most.
Here’s one way http://tinyurl.com/atess5p. I’ve tried it and it does help to an extent, but it’s not perfect. There may well be better ways to go about it, though.
Todd
any kind of workaround or best practice for making screenshots from a normal display look acceptably sharp on a Retina display?
Thanks Todd, I found that earlier and gave it a go but as you say it isn’t perfect. I found a better solution not long ago through the Apple developer tools as you can see from the image in this linked screenshot. This is a compressed jpeg and you may need to open the screen wide or open it at 100% in Photoshop to see the image properly.
Yes it takes a bit of setting up but this explains the procedure. The only major problem I’ve encountered “so far” is that I can’t get screenshots in Windows via Parallels to look sharp in the same way but in theory it should work.