GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 381358
printing is blurred in big images
Last modified: 2006-12-18 22:40:13 UTC
The downscaling made to print is blurring images. This needs to be fixed before 2.18.
Created attachment 77501 [details] pdf print of an image, illustrating the problem
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Fixed in both HEAD and eog-ng. 2006-12-14 Claudio Saavedra <csaavedra@alumnos.utalca.cl> * shell/eog-window.c (eog_window_print_draw_page): Do not use a group in the cairo context. Fixes bug #381358.
Yes, pictures seem much better now (even the coloring issue in acroread seems to be gone now). :) Unfortunately my page is now tiled with the same image all over (besides the centered image). Looks like we need to do some masking now.
That's a bug in cairo's PDF backend. If you print to a PS file, you won't see the tiling. Given that printing uses the PS backend, that's only a PDF + preview issue. In these threads, the issue is discussed: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2006-December/008708.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2006-December/008707.html
I clipped around the image to workaround this. This way, previewing, PDF, PS, and real printing should be always the same. I commited the fix to HEAD and eog-ng.