[cairo] antialias for images?

[Bill Spitzak]

Peter Goetz wrote:
> As you already supposed I started with a high resolution source image.
> I also change the order of rotation and scale. With no success.
> Even if I don't rotate at all and just scale the image down, I get a
> non-antialiased result.
> 
> Any suggestions? Thanks again for help!

I think the problem is that any scale less than .5 does not produce good 
antialiasing. What it does is linearly interplate the closest 2 pixels. 
At a scale less than .5 it must include more the 2 pixels in the 
calculation for a single output pixel.

I believe any fix will have to be done by a lower-level library such as 
pixman or the XRender extension.

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