Problems with Rendering of small images

[Per Jessen Schmidt]

Hello, I have a problem with antialiasing when rendering to small images, particular on the Mac. When creating small thumbnail sized images with thin lines, the image can be very "dim", on the Mac they almost disappear. The problem is that I cannot override the Render default rendering hints. The image transcoder's transcode method create the render with the default rendering hints, and I cannot find a method to change this without changing the source code. I have my own transcoder that override the createImage and writeImage methods. The reason for this is that we render SVG on the server side sometimes on top of an existing image, sometimes on a clean image. My questions are: does anyone have the same problem? And do anyone have a solution where you can override the default rendering hints on the render, when calling the transcode method, without changing the Batik code? I have attached an example. A small SVG file rendered in 110 x 60 pixel, on a PC and on a Mac with the default hints, and one rendered on the Mac where I have changed the Batik code to not use the anti aliasing rendering hint. PS. Yes there are three images the one Mac one look empty, but crank up the contrast in Photoshop an there are image information :-) Best Regards, Per Jessen Schmidt              YaWah.com ApS Egå Havvej 25 c  DK-8250 Egå             Phone: +45 7026 2515   Phone direct: +45 4029 9901   Fax: +45 8749 0515   This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.