b/w scans look ugly.

[schmolch]

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).

Regards,
Sascha
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[Carlos Garcia Campos]

El jue, 30-07-2009 a las 15:46 +0000, saschaheid@... 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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[schmolch]

2009/7/30 Carlos Garcia Campos <carlosgc@...>:

> El jue, 30-07-2009 a las 15:46 +0000, saschaheid@... 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
> PGP key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x523E6462
>

Thank you for this information.
I recompiled poppler with cairo disabled and now the PDFs look perfect.

Thanks again,
Sascha
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[schmolch]

>>> B/W scans look very bad in evince.

>> it's a known poppler issue due to a cairo limitation:
>>
>> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5589


Hello again!

Can anyone tell me how KDE's pdf-viewer Okular renders those b/w scans
beautifully?
It uses poppler and cairo as well, doesn't it?

Thanks,
Sascha
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[Carlos Garcia Campos]

El mar, 22-09-2009 a las 01:10 +0200, Sascha Heid escribió:

> >>> B/W scans look very bad in evince.
>
> >> it's a known poppler issue due to a cairo limitation:
> >>
> >> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5589
>
>
> Hello again!
>
> Can anyone tell me how KDE's pdf-viewer Okular renders those b/w scans
> beautifully?
> It uses poppler and cairo as well, doesn't it?

No, okular uses poppler with splash backend, not with cairo. Evince can
run with poppler splash too, you only need to build poppler without
cairo. But take into account that once all the important cairo issues
are fixed (and bug #5589 is one of those) poppler-glib will depend only
on cairo and therefore Evince too.

> Thanks,
> Sascha
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