I found lots of discussion, and many proposed solutions, and patches to this problem. It seems that many (mozilla, poppler, others?) using cairo (or pixman) is maintaing some patch that fixes the ugly downscaling output.
Related information for reference: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486918 http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2009-July/017637.html http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2009-November/018561.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2011-July/022142.html
I found lots of discussion, and many proposed solutions, and patches to this problem. It seems that many (mozilla, poppler, others?) using cairo (or pixman) is maintaing some patch that fixes the ugly downscaling output.
Related information for reference: /bugzilla. mozilla. org/show_ bug.cgi? id=486918 lists.cairograp hics.org/ archives/ cairo/2009- July/017637. html lists.cairograp hics.org/ archives/ cairo/2009- November/ 018561. html lists.freedeskt op.org/ archives/ cairo/2011- July/022142. html
https:/
http://
http://
http://