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Sigh. Now I'm confused. Last week we were able to replicate the soft png images in Xara and Illustrator cs6, and were able to create sharp images in Photoshop CS6. Looking online, it seemed that we...

Okay, it's resolved to our satisfaction. We can now get the low file sizes and crisp output that iPad 3 demands. This is how we did it:

Create what you want in Xara, and export as a .psd at...

Hi again. I was able to replicate sharp images time and again using Photoshop. but not at all using Xara or Illustrator CS5. I've yet to try Illy CS6 with it's new pixel handling routine. I'll report...

I think I have the answer. We've been able to get really crisp results in Photoshop, but not Xara or Illustrator ( I incorrectly said that Illustrator gave good results in an earlier post. In fact...

The screen size of the Retina display is 2048 x 1536 @264 DPI.

We're using Xcode to create the app, but right now we're saving images to Dropbox and then viewing them in the photo gallery.

The...

Thanks for the feedback lads.

Today's experiments have got nowhere. It's an interesting problem.

I can't post any examples right now as it's commercially sensitive work, but I'll run up an...

I know exactly what you mean, but thats that's not what my problem is. I'm talking about vector images being exported from Xara as PNGs, producing slightly unsharp images and text when displayed on a...

That's a great link. Fascinating!

This link, taken from the article, seems to answer my original question:

http://www.xara.com/news/july06/tutorial.asp

My issue is not with the iPad 2...

Right, that seems to have got me heading in the right direction. I'll let you know how I get on.

Thanks to all of you for your advice!

That looks like it could be the issue. Small text in particular lacks sharpness. It's not something I've taken into account before. Is it a case of setting up a 1 to1 pixel grid and snapping the...

Hi all. First post here, though I've been using Xara professionally for year!

I'm working on some iPad 3 development and I'm really struggling to achieve the crispness that the retina display...