[cairo-bugs] [Bug 11142] New: Cairo does not do proper scaling / minification filtering in bitmaps

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11142

           Summary: Cairo does not do proper scaling / minification
                    filtering in bitmaps
           Product: cairo
           Version: 1.4.6
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: cworth at cworth.org
        ReportedBy: mrc.gran at gmail.com
         QAContact: cairo-bugs at cairographics.org


It seems that this lack of functionality is affecting pdf viewers/backends such
as poppler (see bug #5589):
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5589
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/92296

See how this manifests itself visually:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/6805265/evince_vs_xpdf.png

The problem is present in latest cairo 1.4.6 / poppler 0.5.4 / evince 0.9.0.


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