[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 12769] [gutsy] [regression] Evince has very bad quality when printing pdf files.

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12769


Adrian Johnson <ajohnson at redneon.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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          Component|pdf backend                 |cairo backend
            Product|cairo                       |poppler
            Version|1.5.4                       |unspecified




--- Comment #17 from Adrian Johnson <ajohnson at redneon.com>  2008-03-07 04:04:34 PST ---
(In reply to comment #16)
> Still present with evince 2.21.91-0ubuntu1, libpoppler2  0.6.4-1 and libcairo2
> 1.5.8-0ubuntu1.
> So do we know by now, if it is a problem of poppler (which the cairo-devs
> think) or a problem of cairo? Does the fact, that printing two pages on one
> results in good quality, give any clue?

Re-assigning to poppler. This appears to be an image scaling problem in
poppler.

There was a patch committed to poppler which may fix the problem:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2008-February/003459.html

Currently waiting for confirmation that it fixes the problem:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2008-February/003466.html

I suggest testing with poppler 0.7.1 which contains this patch.


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