Comment 5 for bug 1174651

There is no one correct way to interpolate a bitmap, and SVG lacks a way of defining what interpolation to use. (As mentioned above, we recently had a discussion on this subject.) PDF apparently does have a switch to control interpolation to some degree (I am not sure about eps, but it might have one as well), so if Inkscape did have a way to at least switch between "blocky" and "smooth", then we could look into making sure that this gets transferred correctly to/from pdf (and possibly eps). In that light I would consider this report to essentially constitute a feature request (one that at the moment, unfortunately, cannot be adressed just yet).