Re: bad scaling of pictures?



Excerpts from Hadmut Danisch's message of lun may 24 13:57:34 +0200 2010:
> Hi,

Hi Hadmut, 

> 
> (first of all: thanks for evince, pretty good program)
> 
> 
> I am currently generating picture slide shows, but don't want to use
> Powerpoint or OpenOffice, thus generating PDF slideshows. That's much
> more stable, and evince proved to be much less power-hungry than OO,
> and smoothly runs even on weak netbooks. :-)
> 
> 
> But I found one problem:
> 
> I am preparing pictures for a given screen size to fit in exactly
> without rescaling, e.g. to fit into a 1024x768 screen. I therefore
> generate a PDF document with the same aspect and paste pictures into to
> fully expand to either width or height (depending on aspect). 
> 
> While in principle evince does what I expect, you'll find little
> distortions when comparing the picture with what evince displays 
> 
> 
> E.g. compare the details at the car or the cables in to top right
> corner at
> 
> http://www.danisch.de/tmp/evincetest.pdf
> http://www.danisch.de/tmp/evincetest.jpg

could you provide a screenshot of the image rendered by evince?

> you'll find a visible loss of image quality both on larger screens
> where both need to be rescaled as on screen with the exact height
> of 768 pixels. 
> 
> Maybe some rounding problem in the geometry maths?
> Maybe a problem of one of the libraries evince makes use of?

It might be a problem that has been already fixed in poppler 0.13.x

> 
> 
> regards
> Hadmut
> 

Thanks, 
-- 
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