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Asked: 2026-05-20T21:32:55+00:00

Trying to understand why am I getting low quality drawing with CGContextShowTextAtPoint? See attached

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Trying to understand why am I getting low quality drawing with CGContextShowTextAtPoint? See attached image:
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The letter “W” is drawn using CGContextShowTextAtPoint on a CALayer and looks very pixelized. The button next to it is a standard button and looks high res as expected. I would like to get the text drawing to be hi-res.

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  1. Editorial Team

    By default, your CALayer is not rendering its Quartz content at the higher resolution of the Retina display screen. You can enable this using code like the following:

    if ([layer respondsToSelector:@selector(setContentsScale:)])
{
    layer.contentsScale = [[UIScreen mainScreen] scale];
}

    This will affect not just text rendering, but all of your Quartz drawing within CALayers, so you’ll need to do this for all of your layers with custom Quartz content.

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