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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>medium
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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
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   title="NEW --- - Bilinear scaling results in blurry Aztec code printing"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62418">62418</a>
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>poppler-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Bilinear scaling results in blurry Aztec code printing
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>major
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>mgorny@gentoo.org
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>Other
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>unspecified
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>splash backend
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>poppler
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        <pre>For some time, I am using printed train tickets which contain a small bit of
some industrial 2D barcode. Sadly, after late poppler update the printed codes
got blurry and thus become unreadable.

I am using evince to print the tickets. It uses poppler-glib to handle PDF
files and CUPS as a printer backend. CUPS passes jobs to lprng which uses
foomatic-filters to print it :).

Sadly, I am able to reproduce it only through printing. The evince view of the
ticket is blurry until I zoom it in. The print preview is always blurry
independently of zoom and poppler version. The actual print is blurry is
poppler-0.21.3+, and sharp in earlier versions.

I was able to bisect the issue to the following commit:

commit a97aead193a927b91a4e33d7b5d2ba7179e664df
Author: Adrian Johnson <<a href="mailto:ajohnson@redneon.com">ajohnson@redneon.com</a>>
Date:   Fri Nov 30 21:30:19 2012 +0100

    Splash: Implement bilinear image scaling

    <a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_RESOLVED  bz_closed"
   title="RESOLVED FIXED - [PATCH] Image quality worse compared to Adobe Reader"
   href="show_bug.cgi?id=22138">Bug #22138</a></pre>
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