Created attachment 92878 [details] This document looks ugly in 4.2.0. Pictures inserted in documents that have to be scaled down look really ugly (using the most trivial scaling algorithm) when displayed on the screen. See the attached document in master, compare to 4.1 where it looks nicely. I'll attach also the screenshot of the ugly rendering.
Created attachment 92879 [details] Screenshot of the ugly rendering.
Jan Holesovsky committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=3cf3700b7a903e88f5296076c40ae854bce91cdc fdo#74124: Scale the pictures before calling ImplDrawAlpha(). The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Jan Holesovsky committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-2": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=39f0062a074c24fd2bdc5b20f457e51fc322c82b&h=libreoffice-4-2 fdo#74124: Scale the pictures before calling ImplDrawAlpha(). It will be available in LibreOffice 4.2.1. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Jan Holesovsky committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-2-0": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=3eb562503e94c25b6eb37bf66219f10ec67486bc&h=libreoffice-4-2-0 fdo#74124: Scale the pictures before calling ImplDrawAlpha(). It will be available already in LibreOffice 4.2.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Reverted on master I guess for performance reasons.
Created attachment 110539 [details] screenshot LO 4.2.0 vs 4.3.4 tested under Win8.1 using LibO 4.3.4.1 some details of the rendering look even worse than 4.2.0 (see upper border of Help and Extension buttons and right border of the 3rd thumbnail) moving this to mab4.3 list since 4.2.x is EOL
Tomaž Vajngerl committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=d53103dd83bf20ac63485e229069f145e35b3009 fdo#74124 bilinear scaling with blending for some formats It will be available in 4.5.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
I installed http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/win-x86@39/2015-01-29_15.54.41/master~2015-01-29_15.54.41_LibreOfficeDev_4.5.0.0.alpha0_Win_x86.msi and problem is solved. Can you please make the fix work for 4.4.0.3?
billy78, If you need pretty scaling, use 4.5. But, this patch should not be backported until all the regressions are worked out like Bug 88841. It's causing a MAB4.5 drawing issue under Linux.
4.4 EOL - removing request.
The original cause of the change in rendering from 4.1 to 4.2 : https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=2e5167528f7566dd9b000e50fc1610b7bf99132a