On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Colin Howarth <co...@howarth.de> wrote:
> On 7 Oct, 2009, at 22:19, Alastair Houghton wrote: > >> On 7 Oct 2009, at 21:11, Colin Howarth wrote: >> >> I'm surprised that the output on screen doesn't look better. >>> >> >> Usually Quartz does an extremely good job... >> > > I know. That's why I'm confused. > > Are there any other settings I can adjust with regard to the >>> anti-aliasing? (Not talking about flatness of Bezier curves here). Is this >>> perhaps due to the floating point user space to device space conversion? >>> and/or non pixel-perfect rendering? >>> >> >> ...though quite what "pixel-perfect" is supposed to mean when we're >> talking about anti-aliasing, I'm not certain. >> > > ... just clutching at straws? I mean if 'it' was deciding on shading values > for 'pixels' assuming there were 72 ppi for example, whereas actually I have > about 110 ppi, it's conceivable that 'something' was making a mess of > things... > > Are you looking at the screen from an angle? Sometimes if you do that, it >> will de-emphasise the anti-aliasing effect, I find... if so, try looking at >> the screen straight on and see if that's better. >> > > No. > > If that isn't the issue, maybe you need to re-post your question to >> quartz-dev instead, since that's the right place to discuss rendering issues >> like this. >> > > Thanks I'll try that. I was hoping I'd made a cocoa blunder :-) > You might have, but there's too much information missing. Try attaching enough information for people to reproduce the problem, along with a screenshot of the problem so people can tell if they've reproduced it. > > ==colin > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/kenferry%40gmail.com > > This email sent to kenfe...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
