Re: PDF file in NSTextAttachment

FROM : Douglas Davidson
DATE : Tue Apr 01 20:57:34 2008

On Apr 1, 2008, at 11:33 AM, fred.<email_removed> wrote:

> I am trying to add a pdf image to an NSTextAttachment.
>
> I create a file wrapper from a pdf image on disk and insert it into 
> my textstorage, with no problem, which draws fine on screen but then 
> when I want to print the document it draws the image at low 
> resolution. Also when the text is copied into another text editor 
> such as TextEdit it is fine on screen but also prints at low 
> resolution. However taking it into Pages seems to work fine and it 
> prints at high resolution. Experimenting, I have found that Pages 
> does not at all behave like a standard NSTextView which is a bit of 
> a pain as it is difficult to create consistency between different 
> applications, but that is another story.
>
> For now can anybody help me with a way to get a text attachment form 
> a pdf file to draw at high res when printing.


File a bug, but depending on the result you want, you can in your own 
application set a custom text attachment cell for your attachment with 
any image you wish, or even use a custom cell subclass to do arbitrary 
drawing.

Douglas Davidson