Prefs setting to disable bitmap oversampling has no effect

[Bug Importer]

0.45 can't set or disable bitmap images oversampling.

[Amphi-users (amphi-users)]

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Since there is no oversampling... what do you mean?

The filtering of embedded images? The antialiasing? Something else?

[Polybe (polybe)]

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In Inkscape Preferences(Shift+Ctrl+P)>Miscellaneous, you can choose the
oversampling level (size of the antialiasing filter) for bitmap images :
None, 2*2...16*16.
But a filter is applied even if you check "None" so it makes bitmap images
a little blurry after rendering.
In 0.38, this feature still works fine

[Horkana-users (horkana-users)]

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You have really got to provide more detail than this and not assume
everyone knows exactly what you mean, otherwise you make it extremely
difficult for anyone but a few people to help make progress on your bug
report and those are the very people you want developing not spending time
in the bug tracker.

Is this a regression or a feature request?

http://www.arcknowledge.com/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.user/2005-03/msg00097.html
this link doesn't help much but I'm starting to think this relates to the
blur functionality and that this is very much a feature request not a bug.

[Polybe (polybe)]

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Don't cry anymore, i got an account... yeah!

I can't explain better than i do in my previous comment.
If i knew which line were wrong in source code, i would say it to you,
sure. :-)

This is a regression since it works in 0.38 version.
(but an old regression, not related to new 0.45 features, in my opinion)
This is a bug since the interface for oversampling settings is still in
Inkscape (Inkscape Preferences(Shift+Ctrl+P)>Miscellaneous) but does not
work.

[Polybe (polybe)]

Originator: NO

In inkscape-preferences.cpp, oversampling dialog initialization:

int const num_items = 5;
    Glib::ustring labels[num_items] = {_("None"), _("2x2"), _("4x4"),
_("8x8"), _("16x16")};
    int values[num_items] = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4};
    _misc_overs_bitmap.set_size_request(_sb_width);
    _misc_overs_bitmap.init("options.bitmapoversample", "value", labels,
values, num_items, 1);
    _page_misc.add_line( false, _("Oversample bitmaps:"),
_misc_overs_bitmap, "", "", false);

In nr-arena-image.cpp, in nr_arena_image_render function :

nr_arena_image_x_sample = prefs_get_int_attribute
("options.bitmapoversample", "value", 1);

Does nr_arena_image_x_sample get the right value in the line above? Since
the oversampling
code itself in functions like
nr_R8G8B8A8_P_R8G8B8A8_P_R8G8B8A8_N_TRANSFORM (nr-compose-transform.cpp)
seems to me to be unchanged since 0.38 version.

[Tom Davidson (tjd-mit)]

Marking bug 180612 as a duplicate. It would be great to also update the answer to question 21694 when this gets resolved.

Note the setting also has no effect on the 'Make a bitmap copy' command.

Can I suggest that this pref also doesn't belong in the 'misc' category, but perhaps in the Import/Export tab. Even better, let the user set it in the Export bitmap dialog along with resolution, etc.

[Tom Davidson (tjd-mit)]

Bug 170392 is an RFE with requests for additional antialiasing controls.

[Tom Davidson (tjd-mit)]

Polybe you were right that the value was not getting properly set: the problem was that there was no entry in src/preferences-skeleton.h for the option. Patch attached (my first against Inkscape!)

Before applying this patch, the default value (2x2) was always used.

I'm also attaching a couple exported PNGs with 'none', and with '16x16' oversampling. Note that changing the setting doesn't trigger an immediate redraw of the canvas, so you may have to hide and re-show the canvas to see the difference.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Applied and committed.