[Gimp-print-devel] Re: dithering stuff

[Raph L. <ra...@ac...>]

Robert L Krawitz wrote:
> 
> I ran a few experiments just now.  For the test patterns that I use,
> I've found that ordered dither works very nicely, but I just tried
> printing a thumbnail of a photograph, and the ordered dither looks
> awful.  Random Floyd-Steinberg works best for that.
> 
> This should come as no real surprise to anyone, but I think that
> having the choice of dithering algorithms really comes in handy.  At
> some point this should feed into a set of default profiles for
> photographs, line art, etc. (which we have a start on).
> 
> I'm really looking forward to (hopefully) getting your stuff, Raph!

Indeed. I expect to be releasing it as GPL soon, as planned. However,
our son was just born yesterday, so I'm not doing things at 100%
efficiency yet.

Thanks for keeping me up to date - I'll do my best to do the same.

Raph