I just installed Picasa on Mountain Lion, but the fonts are really ugly and aliased:
This is a MacBook Pro with Retina display, if that makes a difference.
Is there something I can do about this?
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Seems like the new answer is the Google+ app for iOS.
As Chris Redman said, the fonts are fine.
To access the glyphs in this font, you'll need to use the Character Palette.
Follow the directions he gave to show the Character Palette, then click on the Action button in the upper left corner of the window and choose Customize List…. Scroll down in the list and choose Dingbats, like shown in the image below:
Then choose the Dingbats category in the main window, then choose the appropriate font in the popup menu in the center column. The lightning bolt is shown in the image below.
As you can see, the Unicode value of that glyph is U+F07E, which is way the heck out of the range that you're going to be able to reach with your keyboard alone.
P.S. Both BBEdit and TextWrangler are Carbon-based apps. (Well, they could be hybrid, but the majority of the text-handling appears to be Carbon (HITextView?)).
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Best Answer
This is a common problem with many apps on the retina Macbook Pro. We'll just have to wait until Google updates Picasa for the high-resolution display. There is a discussion about this on Google's Product Forums.