On Jul 30, 2011, at 9:10 PM, James Merkel wrote:

> I tried ImageKit and it works great.  Excellent quality. Thanks for the 
> suggestion, Scott.
> I didn't have to do much more than change an NSImageView to an IKImageView in 
> InterfaceBuilder and the code.
> 
> However, there doesn't appear to be an easy way to print a CGImageRef (which 
> you get from an IKImageView) . So I figure for the printing case,  I'll just 
> open the file again and create an NSImage.
> Seems counterintuitive to open the file again, but its' probably easier than 
> converting a CGImageRef to an NSImage.
> Interestingly, the quality of the printed NSImage is very good compared to 
> the screen rendition. Never understood why that is.

For 10.6 and later, you can use -[NSImage initWithCGImage:size:] to create an 
NSImage from a CGImageRef.

For 10.5 and later, you can create an NSBitmapImageRep from your CGImageRef 
(-[NSBitmapImageRep initWithCGImage:]) and add the representation to an NSImage.




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