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I plot a straight diagonal line and then simply rasterize it. Consider what happens (Mathematica 8.0.4, 10.2, 11.1.1 and 12.0 on Windows 7 x64):

n = 20;
gr = Graphics[{White, AbsoluteThickness[1], Line[{{0, 0}, {n, n}}]}, Background -> Black, 
   PlotRangePadding -> None, BaseStyle -> Antialiasing -> False, ImageSize -> {n, n}, 
   PlotRange -> {{0, n}, {0, n}}];
i = Image[gr, Magnification -> 10]
Show[i, gr, BaseStyle -> Magnification -> 10]

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As it is clearly seen, the diagonal white Line is converted to under-diagonal line by Rasterize. Is it a bug or I misunderstand something?

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  • $\begingroup$ It seems to me that you override the BaseStyle -> Antialiasing -> False setting when you use Show, and this causes problems. $\endgroup$
    – shrx
    Commented Oct 3, 2015 at 11:30
  • $\begingroup$ @shrx With Show[i, gr, BaseStyle -> {Magnification -> 10, Antialiasing -> False}] and Magnify[Show[i, gr], 10] I get the same problem with additional bug: empty white space after the the output. $\endgroup$
    – Alexey Popkov
    Commented Oct 3, 2015 at 11:34
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    $\begingroup$ There are many alignment problems like this, unfortunately. $\endgroup$
    – Szabolcs
    Commented Oct 3, 2015 at 11:37

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A bit of investigation.

The first what come to mind is that the described bug is a result of incorrect conversion between the coordinates in Graphics and the pixel positions in Image. Typically they are shifted by 1/2 relative to each other, the latter having vertical positions counted from the top to the bottom.

Checking:

n = 20; d = .5;
gr[d_] := Graphics[{White, AbsoluteThickness[1], Line[{{0 - d, d}, {n - d, n + d}}]}, 
   Background -> Black, PlotRangePadding -> None, BaseStyle -> Antialiasing -> False, 
   ImageSize -> {n, n}, PlotRange -> {{0, n}, {0, n}}];
i = Image[gr[d], Magnification -> 10]

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Works! But what if we use another value for d? Experimenting shows that we get the same picture for d from .3106 to .8105 inclusively! But already for d = .3105 and d = .8106 the picture is different:

Grid[Map[Labeled[Image[gr[#], Magnification -> 10], Row[{"d=", #}], 
    Top] &, {{.3105, .3106}, {.8105, .8106}}, {2}], Frame -> All]

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What a strange threshold! Apparently Rasterize does not use the Bresenham's line algorithm.

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