Aliasing on print vs. Windows Picture Viewer (Windows 7)
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 4:02 pm
Hello,
I tried to find the answer by myself but can't seem to find the option. I'm doing some quality printing comparison tests by printing contact sheets, 2 x 2 to have 4 pictures per letter page using pictures in the Windows 7 sample gallery (the tulips one).
That picture is 1024x768 so I set the picture size to 1024x768 to have a full size picture, with default 4 and 16 pixel margins.
My problem is that XnView create aliasing on the tulip stem. When I print the same picture using Windows Picture Viewer in Windows 7 with default settings, there's no aliasing on the tulip stem.
I checked the original picture to see if there was aliasing in it, because Windows might have a default antialiasing filter in Windows Picture Viewer, but no, the original picture as no aliasing at all. When I check the original picture either with XnView or with Paint, the stem is real clear, fluid, with no aliasing.
So does XnView create that aliasing, maybe due to a suboptimal "adapt to page" algorithm when in contact sheet mode ? Or there's a setting somewhere that I forgot to set ?
I want to ditch ACDSee for XnView (because I also need to have some text at the bottom of each picture) but that quality loss is annoying me. Since the default Windows Picture Viewer in Windows 7 that allows contact sheet printing doesn't have that quality loss, maybe it's something I'm missing ?
Especially when I check the picture in XnView, not in contact sheet mode, the picture is really clear. So it seems to be a contact sheet mode problem ?
Thank you very much !
Sim
I tried to find the answer by myself but can't seem to find the option. I'm doing some quality printing comparison tests by printing contact sheets, 2 x 2 to have 4 pictures per letter page using pictures in the Windows 7 sample gallery (the tulips one).
That picture is 1024x768 so I set the picture size to 1024x768 to have a full size picture, with default 4 and 16 pixel margins.
My problem is that XnView create aliasing on the tulip stem. When I print the same picture using Windows Picture Viewer in Windows 7 with default settings, there's no aliasing on the tulip stem.
I checked the original picture to see if there was aliasing in it, because Windows might have a default antialiasing filter in Windows Picture Viewer, but no, the original picture as no aliasing at all. When I check the original picture either with XnView or with Paint, the stem is real clear, fluid, with no aliasing.
So does XnView create that aliasing, maybe due to a suboptimal "adapt to page" algorithm when in contact sheet mode ? Or there's a setting somewhere that I forgot to set ?
I want to ditch ACDSee for XnView (because I also need to have some text at the bottom of each picture) but that quality loss is annoying me. Since the default Windows Picture Viewer in Windows 7 that allows contact sheet printing doesn't have that quality loss, maybe it's something I'm missing ?
Especially when I check the picture in XnView, not in contact sheet mode, the picture is really clear. So it seems to be a contact sheet mode problem ?
Thank you very much !
Sim
