I do agree. I have spent more than 2.500,- for a Macbook Retina plus a few thousand for CS6 and the result is an ugly bitmapped screen I cannot show to customers at all.

Using Adobe since PSD 2 and 3 on the macintosh platform I noticed Adobe was always slow to adapt to the Mac tech. I think it's shameful to let us pay full retail and delivery an old school interface. As a billion dollar company you should have the resources to develop these screen adjustment from day one rather quickly. Sometimes one wishes Apple bought this company.

"Have patience. Photoshop and Illustrator are done and both have been

decarbonized."

That's my point.

Bob, I apprechiate you are chiming in however this message was intended for Adobe ppl. I do feel as a long time Adobe user I am being let down. And it's very annoying to hear form a fellow board member everything is good and peechy. Let the staff members tell me the PR spin. There is really no sugar coding it on this matter.

Best,

D

I am sorry if this sounds harsh, but you could enable HiDPI as far ago as December 2011, see this article: http://www.cultofmac.com/132751/enable-retina-like-hidpi-display-modes -in-os-x-lion-video-how-to/

I know plenty of OS X and iOS developers and as soon as that info came out they a) started planning for the transition and b) pretty much knew how Apple will handle high-resolution displays (same as they did on iOS—by doing resolution doubling).

If Adobe was somehow "surprised" by this then they have a bunch of idiot managers on their InDesign team. And, no, it’s not Apple’s fault that Adobe’s apps don’t use Cocoa’s UI controls but are instead going for some weird ***, half-flash-half-not combination of a home grown UI framework monstrosity. They’ve been trying to have a "magic" UI framework that works across Windows and OS X for over a decade and it has never worked well (at least not on the Mac side). You’d think they'd learn it one day, but apparently idiot corporate policies like "Flash is an app development framework, now!" trump pragmatic engineering decisions.  

As for the non UI, content rendering—if it works at 200% zoom, it works with HiDPI.

To be honest, seeing how little in terms of innovative features Illustrator gets I was really surprised by its retina support being out as quick—and InDesign’s being MIA.

It’s fascinating that Apple can make do with Cocoa which is at its core a UI framework that is over a decade old while Adobe has been fumbling around like a bunch of amateurs.

And, yes, this post was brought to you by having to work with InDesign over the weekend on a retina MacBook Pro and googling to see if or when an update is forthcoming. *grumble*

I agreewith Sam. Don't see why end users should have to factor in the technical logistics here, we're not the ones getting paid to write software. It's been a while since Retina hit the wire, other publishers have gotten across it. Am looking forward to a more usable version of InDesign.

In this case, even a small bit of due diligence would have revealed that this hardware upgrade would be incompatible with your  critical software.

That's an excellent point. Apple has created the illusion that its faithful must have every one of its new innovations the moment it's announced. Good for them. Bad for you. Apple is not some magical beast that does no wrong. It's every bit the hungry corporate kool-aid machine that Adobe is repeatedly accused of being. Both trains don't always run on the same track. When there's a divergence, judging which one screwed you in particular is strictly a matter of perspective...your perspective; not their's.

What everyone here fails to even mention is the compleat lack of support for Indesign period, Mac or PC when compared to other Adobe software.  Even Fireworks got the new interface update before Indesign with CS6, what's that all about.  For Indesign to be such an important cornerstone of the Adobe suite, especially with it's "Digital Publishing Suite" addition, it boggles the mind why it does not get more love.  And don't listen to Bob, he runs to Adobe defense and poo poos Apple any chance he gets and loves to give vague facts when it comes to how fast something is able to be complete as is his reasoning why it's not done.  Adobe and others have known for years about higher resolution displays, Apple did not invent this they were simply one of the first to implement them.