Re: b/w scans look ugly.

[Sascha Heid <saschaheid gmail com>]

2009/7/30 Carlos Garcia Campos <carlosgc gnome org>:
> El jue, 30-07-2009 a las 15:46 +0000, saschaheid gmail com escribió:
>> Hi List.
>>
>> B/W scans look very bad in evince.
>> The words (which are graphics) are readable but are very ugly.
>>
>> Can there be anything done about that?
>> Is it a poppler-issue?
>>
>> xpdf renders them beautifully.
>>
>> I'm using Ubuntu Karmic so im probably using the latest version of
>> evince (and everything else).
>
> it's a known poppler issue due to a cairo limitation:
>
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5589
>
> Thanks for reporting.
>
>> Regards,
>> Sascha
>
>
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> Carlos Garcia Campos
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Thank you for this information.
I recompiled poppler with cairo disabled and now the PDFs look perfect.

Thanks again,
Sascha