There are some quirks with scaling with CIImage. Will this post by Dan Wood help?
Diederik Hoogenboom
2010-02-05 11:34:39
There are some quirks with scaling with CIImage. Will this post by Dan Wood help?
That's definitely a CoreImage bug. File it at bugreport.apple.com
My understanding is that due to its nature, the hardware Core Image renderer has some odd quirks when rendering for anything but on-screen display. So, you are recommended to use the software renderer for other situations.
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/qa/qa2005/qa1416.html