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Asked: 2026-05-14T14:22:21+00:00

I have a CALayer that I apply a perspective to using a CGTransform3D and

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I have a CALayer that I apply a perspective to using a CGTransform3D and specifying the m14 property. When the perspective is applied, the layer has jagged edges. I’ve heard people mention that adding a 1px transparent border around the layer will help with this. I don’t know how to do that. I have tried using the border and borderWidth properties of a CALayer but the jagged edges are still there. I also tried to reduce the rect that is drawn by 1px on all sides, but it doesn’t help either.

Any help would be great! Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    By “I’ve heard people mention,” I assume you mean the discussion on this question. What was suggested there was to actually draw the content in your CALayer so that it has a one-pixel transparent border outside of the core content, using the code 

    CGContextSetAllowsAntialiasing(theContext, true);
CGContextSetShouldAntialias(theContext, true);

    within your Quartz drawing for that layer.

    There’s also the edgeAntialiasingMask property on CALayer, but I’ve seen no impact when using code like the following:

    layer.edgeAntialiasingMask = kCALayerLeftEdge | kCALayerRightEdge | kCALayerBottomEdge | kCALayerTopEdge;

    on the antialiasing of transformed layer edges. See also this question for discussion of this, as well as how they solved their problem using one-pixel transparent borders around their images.

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