(In reply to comment #16)
> Still present with evince 2.21.91-0ubuntu1, libpoppler2 0.6.4-1 and libcairo2
> 1.5.8-0ubuntu1.
> So do we know by now, if it is a problem of poppler (which the cairo-devs
> think) or a problem of cairo? Does the fact, that printing two pages on one
> results in good quality, give any clue?
Re-assigning to poppler. This appears to be an image scaling problem in poppler.
There was a patch committed to poppler which may fix the problem:
(In reply to comment #16)
> Still present with evince 2.21.91-0ubuntu1, libpoppler2 0.6.4-1 and libcairo2
> 1.5.8-0ubuntu1.
> So do we know by now, if it is a problem of poppler (which the cairo-devs
> think) or a problem of cairo? Does the fact, that printing two pages on one
> results in good quality, give any clue?
Re-assigning to poppler. This appears to be an image scaling problem in poppler.
There was a patch committed to poppler which may fix the problem:
http:// lists.freedeskt op.org/ archives/ poppler/ 2008-February/ 003459. html
Currently waiting for confirmation that it fixes the problem:
http:// lists.freedeskt op.org/ archives/ poppler/ 2008-February/ 003466. html
I suggest testing with poppler 0.7.1 which contains this patch.