> On 2014 Dec 17, at 05:59, Ken Thomases <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> When you draw a single time using -lockFocus, your image can only be 
> appropriate for one or the other.  So, it will either be drawn at standard 
> resolution, in which case it will look fuzzy or blocky on a high-resolution 
> screen; or it will be drawn at high resolution, in which case it will waste 
> RAM/VRAM and rendering work if it's only going to be displayed on a 
> standard-resolution screen.  It might also be very slightly less sharp than 
> it would otherwise have been.  It will be down-sampled to display on the 
> standard-resolution screen, which usually works pretty well (especially at a 
> 2:1 ratio) but does have some effect.

Excellent, Ken.  I just submitted Feedback on the "High Resolution Guidelines 
for OS X”, suggesting that the relevant text be replaced with yours.


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