Graphics2D.scale() producing pixelated images from vectors

Question

I have a set of JPanels that I am using in my game to display the interface. Each one overrides paintComponent() and draws itself using Java2D. That all works great -- you can zoom in, move around, etc. and it all looks very nice and uses affine transformations.
I'm trying to produce very high resolution images from this interface (for use on a poster) and using scale() is creating pixelated images rather than nice, high res images of the vector data.
My code works as follows:
1.) Create an instance of the interface using some saved game state data.
2.) Create a Graphics2D object from a BufferedImage object.
3.) Scale the Graphics2D object so that the interface will fill the entire image (in my test cases, the interface is running at 800x600 normally, and the resulting image is going to be 3200x1600, so a 4x scale).
4.) Call the interface's paint method on the Graphics2D object. Note that all of the paint methods are using calls to fill... and draw...; nothing is getting rasterized in my code.
5.) Write out the image object to a file (PNG).
A sample of the output is here:
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w174/toupsz/ScreenShot2007-04-24_11-45-35_-0500.png
The white circle in the upper left hand corner is drawn in between steps 4 and 5. It actually looks correct.
Is there something I'm doing wrong? Is it a deficiency in Java itself? Is there some way to fix it?
Any help would be most appreciated!
Thanks!
-Zach
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Answer 1

Try setting a few hints on your Graphics2D:
g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION, RenderingHints.VALUE_INTERPOLATION_BICUBIC);
g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_TEXT_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_TEXT_ANTIALIAS_ON);