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1. Creating nice looking fonts with "blurred" borders in Cocoa Touch / Core graphics    stackoverflow.com

I would like to draw a nice looking fonts in Cocoa Touch (by "nice looking" I mean white font with blurred black border that looks like shadow) The question is either:

1. Is it ...

2. Box Blur CGImageRef    stackoverflow.com

I'm attempting to implement a simple Box Blur, but am having issues. Namely, instead of blurring the images it seems to be converting each pixel to either: Red, Green, Blue or ...

3. Motion blur during CABasicAnimation    stackoverflow.com

I have this simple animation that moves an image from one point to another:

    CABasicAnimation *anim = [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:@"position"];
    anim.fromValue  = [NSValue valueWithCGPoint:CGPointMake(px2.x, px2.y)];
 ...

4. Blurry PDF Drawing compared to CATiledLayer    stackoverflow.com

In my application I'm creating a PDF reader. To cater for performance, I draw a view at default scale. This view is not CATiledLayer based. When user zooms in a bit, ...