On 4 Jan 2010, at 21:47, Sander Stoks wrote: > I wrote some code to draw an NSString rotated by an arbitrary angle, which > can be manipulated interactively. The results are surprisingly bad (compared > to how good font rendering is in general on the Mac). Most notably, the > character positions "jump around" in whole pixel increments while I'm > rotating the text. Usually, this is caused by hinting which tries to place > vertical and horizontal lines at integer pixels. Does anyone know of a way > to switch this off (temporarily) for a given context?
How are you drawing your NSString? Are you using NSLayoutManager? If so, try sending your layout manager the -setUsesScreenFonts: message with the argument NO and see if that fixes the issue. Kind regards, Alastair. -- http://alastairs-place.net _______________________________________________ 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
