[R-SIG-Mac] filled.contours and quartz() problem

[Simon Urbanek]

On Oct 30, 2009, at 11:05 , Joerg van den Hoff wrote:

> has someone tried `filled.contours' with a `quartz' device?
>
> for me, contrary to using `X11' the display is corrupted by
> visible rendering of all contour lines (looks as if `contour'
> output is overlayed on the image with a thin line width in a
> whitish color) as well as the pixel boundaries .
>
> the same happens, when I first draw to `X11' and then
> `dev.print' to a pdf-file: with `gv' under X everything looks fine,
> using `PreView' under Aqua looks like the `quartz' ouput.
>
> I know that Apple's pdf rendering engine used to be buggy (don't know
> if this is still true) but I'm not sure that this is the reason.
>
> it seems that somehow gaps of one screen-pixel are introduced between
> the constant-color patches.
>
> is this known? can something be done about this?
>

FAQ 12.10


> regards,
> joerg
>
>
> ps: partly the problems occur with `image', too: here the quartz  
> display
> of looks ok, but viewing the same image after dev.print(pdf) shows the
> image pixels separated by (I presume one) screen-pixel gaps. viewing
> the pdf-output with `xpdf' on a linux machine showed similar  
> behaviour.
>
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