[cairo] antialias for images?

[Peter Goetz]

Hi all,
okay, I tried cairo_pattern_set_filter, by using the image with a
pattern as it was suggested by mental. Also with no success. None of
the filters changed anything in the result.
So I guess Björn is right and cairo doesn't support high quality filtering yet.
Too bad. Thanks anyway!

Peter

2007/10/16, Bill Spitzak <spitzak at thefoundry.co.uk>:
> 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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