Re: NSBezierPath + thin lines + antialias = :(
Re: NSBezierPath + thin lines + antialias = :(
- Subject: Re: NSBezierPath + thin lines + antialias = :(
- From: Uli Kusterer <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 22:28:28 +0100
On 09 Feb 2015, at 22:18, Jerry Krinock <email@hidden> wrote:
> I may need to break down and learn something about graphics and drawing.
>
> I use NSBezierPath in a -[NSView drawRect:] to do an engineering-style drawing. Here is a tiny arrowhead pointing to a vertical “dimension line”:
>
> Not very nice. If instead I draw this in a graphics program, with antialiasing off, and save to a png file, the result is much clearer. (Its accuracy is a little compromised, but that’s OK.)
>
> Of course this is an old problem, which, I think, goes away with Retina displays. But this is for an update to an OS X app, many of whom’s users have non-Retina displays.
>
> Is there a way to draw thin lines in code, and get good results on non-Retina displays? What should I read to learn how?
The image didn’t make it to the list, but are you perhaps drawing between pixels? Here’s an article (with pictures!) about this issue I wrote ages ago:
http://orangejuiceliberationfront.com/are-your-rectangles-blurry-pale-and-have-rounded-corners/
Does that help?
Cheers,
-- Uli Kusterer
“The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere...”
http://zathras.de
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