My current company is a mostly-Mac shop, and I use SlickEdit (v22.0.2.1) on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015).
Since switching from 24" to 27" external displays, text in the editing windows of SlickEdit is borderline unreadable, and I can't seem to figure out how to fix it.
With a pair of 24" Dell U2415H displays (1920x1200) attached (via DisplayPort), things were okay, apart from the lack of work space. I've lately switched out the monitors for 27" displays. First I tried a pair of Dell U2718Q (4k). Now I have a U2715H and a U2717D (both native 2560x1440).
In the SlickEdit text windows on the 27" displays, all text/code is really badly rendered. It looks like text is suffering really terrible ratio-rescaling artifacts. In all other windows (e.g. Terminal, SublimeText, Finder, etc), text is clear and legible. Even if I set everything to use the same font & size. With the 4k displays, I attributed this to some very negative interaction between SE and the Mac's display scaling. So I've switched to the current 27" displays, running at default (native, 2560x1440) resolution, but the text is still horrible. I figure there must be some adjustment I can do to fix this, but I just can't find it.
Even in the other panes of SlickEdit windows, where I've set all the fonts to Menlo 12. I've experimented with other fonts and sizes, to no avail.
Plugging these same monitors into Windows and Linux boxes, text looks fine in SlickEdit.
I've attached two screenshots to show the issue. For these, I've gone into Tools::Options::Appearance::Fonts and changed font for every Element to Menlo 12, so that both screenshots show clear text and crap text, in what is supposed to be the same font, in different panes of the same window. In each screenshot, text in the Sample Code pane is distorted, and text (same font & size) in other panes looks great.
I've tried Dark Profiles and Light Profiles for syntax coloring. Both equally bad.
I've tried Tools::Options::Appearance::Advanced::"Mac Retina Display (High DPI) Support" = "Auto", "Always On" and "Always Off", restarting SE whenever I change this. It affects SE windows on the built-in (retina) display, but has no effect on the external displays.
Any suggestions? My coworkers use ST3 and suggest I do the same, but I'm not quite ready to make that jump yet.
Thanks in advance!