Comment 48 for bug 92296

(In reply to comment #31)
> (In reply to comment #30)
> > (In reply to comment #29)
> > > But maybe the change in image quality is because evince doesn't use poppler for
> > > displaying image files, so when I drag the background image to a new evince it
> > > doesn't use poppler?
> > >
> >
> > No, the background is not a pdf document, but an image which is rendered with
> > GdkPixbuf.
> >
>
> So my issue is fixed if either cairo is fixed and thus scales the image nicely,
> or worked around by prescaling the image before handing it to cairo?

I hope it's fixed in cairo/pixman soon.

> Reassigning bug because it seems jeff is not working on this anymore (no reply
> since feb. 2008 and no reply to comment #28 aug. 2009).
>

Well, maybe Jeff is not working on this bug anymore, but he is still working on this issue in pixman/cairo side, see:

http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2009-July/017867.html