[Gimp-print-devel] Experimental stuff

[Robert L K. <rl...@al...>]

I've put some new dithering stuff in the dither2-branch branch that
I'd like people to try and comment on.  This uses a hybrid of
Floyd-Steinberg and ordered dither.  It should work much better with
variable dot size printers.  Although I've only tested it on my Stylus
Photo EX, it uses the same principles on that printer (different ink
colors) as on printers with variable dot sizes.

It seems to be smoother, but more banding is visible.  I think I need
a matrix that is not a power of 2 in dimension to get rid of the
banding.

I've been working on it off and on for about a month now.  Thanks to
Thomas Tonino for lots of discussion on this topic.

To try this out:

cvs update -r dither2-branch

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