The picture is very large, so the issue may be in the scaling method used by EOG vs the one used in GIMP. More over, if I open it right into Firefox, I notice that, while the picture is loading, it displays the same nois all over it. But, when finally loaded, it's clean again.
The original picture is here: http:// julien. olivier. free.fr/ Scans-1. png .
The picture is very large, so the issue may be in the scaling method used by EOG vs the one used in GIMP. More over, if I open it right into Firefox, I notice that, while the picture is loading, it displays the same nois all over it. But, when finally loaded, it's clean again.