preferredRenderingQuality
The printing quality.
Declaration
var preferredRenderingQuality: NSPrintOperation.RenderingQuality { get }Return Value
The preferred printing quality. See NSPrintOperation.RenderingQuality for the possible values.
Discussion
If the print sheet is unresponsive or sluggish due to the time is takes to fully render a page, you can check this method in drawRect: and other printing methods such as beginDocument and knowsPageRage: to determine if the print operation prefers speed over fidelity. Most applications render each page fast enough and do not need to call this method. Only use this method after establishing that best quality rendering does indeed make the user interface unresponsive.
The following is an example use of this method:
- (void)drawRect:(NSRect)rect {
NSGraphicsContext *currentContext = [NSGraphicsContext currentContext];
if (![currentContext isDrawingToScreen]) {
NSPrintOperation *printOperation = [NSPrintOperation currentOperation]
if ([printOperation preferredRenderingQuality] == NSPrintRenderingQualityResponsive) {
// Render with the best possible quality such that the user interface remains responsive
} else {
// Printing, do a full render
}
}
}