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I had almost forgotten the taste of soups made from homemade broth. My mom came and stayed with us for a month after R was born. While she was with us, she made me soup with freshly cooked broth frequently. There was no turning back after I remembered the taste of broth made from scratch. Ever since then, I stopped buying the boxed broth(I stopped buying the canned one long before), be it chicken, beef or vegetable.
Category Archives: Baby Friendly
Ravioli Night
I promised in my beet pancake post that I will be sharing more beet recipes. Here you go.
Though I made this for my baby girl and filing under "Baby Friendly" this is a delicious recipe and great for adult taste buds too. You may have to adjust the seasoning a bit if you are preparing this for the whole family.
A Treat
Everyone deserves a treat once in a while. We, 99% of the time, do not give anything sugary to our one year old daughter, yet, for obvious reasons. She gets all her sugar from fruits, vegetables and other natural ingredients used to make her meals. We haven't decided when we are going to start adding sugar to her food. I suppose, as she becomes more and more interested with table food, it will eventually happen. Until then, no sugar for her.
Baby's first fish cake
Fish is a good source of Omega 3. Fish is healthy and nutritious. White fishes such as Haddock or Cod is mild and has less "fishy" smell and are great choices for little ones. I used cod but I suppose other fishes can also be substituted for this cake.
Beef Patty for babies
Pincer grasp is an exciting fine motor development for babies. This important skill is the first step to self-feeding, reading, drawing, writing and caring for themselves. Though babies start developing this skill by 3 months, it may take at least a year for a baby to pick up small objects between thumb and forefinger. Between 8 to 12 months babies fine tune the grasping reflex. One of the great way to encourage and fine tune this skill is by offering small finger food to baby.
Sweet, Savory, Yummy
I would have never thought of cooking meat and fruit together although I verily enjoy fruit salsa or fruit chutney as a condiment to meat dishes. Then, there came the baby and the time to introduce her to solid proteins. Her pediatrician recommended mixing fruit puree to meats when we first introduce chicken or beef to our then 7 month old baby girl.
Fries, littleones?
Starchy sweet potatoes are so versatile. Although yellow-orange flesh is most common, there are many varieties of sweet potatoes with flesh and skin that can be white, cream, yellow, deep purple, orange or pink. Sweet potatoes are a great source of beta-carotene and provide children with sizeable amount of daily vitamin A needs. In order to enjoy the full benefit of beta-carotene, it is important to add some fat in sweet potato dishes. Recent studies show that, a healthy amount of fat(0.15 oz) per meal significantly increases uptake of beta-carotene from sweet potatoes.
Baby's First fruits
No doubt, the past generations were introduced to solids much earlier than we introduce solids to our infants these days. According to American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), babies should only be breast-fed and/or formula fed and healthy babies do not need water/juice until solids are introduced. They get all the fluids they need from the breast milk and/or formula.
Babies love the sweet taste of fruits. Some fruit needs to be first cooked and then puree before offering to baby's such as apple, pear, etc. Others can be just mashed and given to babies. For example, mangoes and bananas do not need to be cooked first. Ones baby's adjusted to one fruit for at least four days a new food can be introduced. Also, mild herbs and spices, say mint, cinnamon, nutmeg, etc., can also be added to enhance the flavor of a fruit if you wish. When it came to choose the first fruit, we choose apples for our daughter.
3-4 Apples
Cinnamon powder (Optional)
- Wash and cut apples into quarters. Remove the core.
- Simmer apple quarters in VERY little water until tender.
- Let cool the apples, peel and either mash or puree depending on the age of your child.
- Offer as is, or add to yogurt and/or oatmeal.
Notes :
i. Instead of simmering, the apples can be baked in 350 degrees for 45 to 60 minutes depending on size and oven temperature.
ii. Apple belongs to the "dirty dozen" family, so I would recommend peeling them before simmering if not using organic apples. I use all organic produce for the baby and peel the apple skin after cooking to retain more nutrition.
iii. Following the same process, other fruits such as pears, plums, peaches, etc. can be puree.
iv. I do not add additional water in the food processor, but can be added if necessary.
v. Apple puree freezes very well.


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When I first hear this week's buzzword, I thought someone was being blessed after sneezing. I was wrong. According to the Investopedia dictionary, a gazump is the practice of raising the price of a previously agreed-upon real estate transaction. A gazump refers to a situation where a seller and buyer of a piece of real estate (such as a parcel of land or a house) have in place a verbal agreement regarding price, but where the price is suddenly raised shortly before or at the signing. This sudden increase in price is a gazump, and while the procedure typically falls within the boundary of the law, it is often considered an unethical practice in real estate.
A seller who raises the price at the last minute may try to justify the gazump by citing competing bids. In this case, the seller states that another, higher bid has been made on the property, thereby compelling the buyer to agree to the higher price or risk losing the property. The seller may also infer that if the buyer does not agree to this new price the price could continue to increase with additional competing bids. If the buyer is motivated to purchase the property, he or she may agree to the higher price to avoid losing property or facing an even higher price. Conversely, the buyer can choose to walk away from the property because the transaction has not yet been closed.
For example, assume a home is on the market with a listing price of $200,000. You make an offer to buy the property for $195,000, and the offer is accepted by the seller. Before the closing, however, the seller informs you that he has received another offer for $199,000, and he will sell to the new buyer unless you increase your offer to $199,000 or more. Because the seller had already agreed to your offer for $195,000 and is now asking for a higher price, you have been gazumped. If the seller had not already agreed to your offer, then you would have simply been outbid.
A gazump is more likely to occur in robust real estate markets where prices are increasing, or in situations where the sale progresses too slowly and the seller is getting anxious (for example, if the buyer has not yet sold his or her property).

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I have noted previously here the case of Reverend George Exoo, whose extradition was sought from the U.S.A. to Ireland for alleged assistance in a suicide.
It's now being reported that Exoo's extradition has been refused:
RTE: Extradition of Exoo halted in US
The Times West Virginian: Ex-Beckley minister free
Irish Times: Minister in suicide case calls for change in Irish law
The judgment was issued by the U.S. District Court, Southern District Court of West Virginia. The judge was Magistrate Judge R. Clarke VanDervort.
The court website is at http://www.wvsd.uscourts.gov/
Update May 2008:
The Exoo case Opinion is available here.


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This major new work and multi-channel video installation explores how sexuality was defined in Balkan pagan traditions. Abramovic researched Serbian folklore and discovered many instances of the employment of eroticism to address everyday issues. For example, if it rained too much the women of the village would run into the fields and lift their skirts in an attempt to scare the gods and end the rain. Sweeping cinematic projections and animations play alongside contextual readings as Abramovic and amateur actors dress in traditional costumes and reanimate myth.
Since the early 1970s, Marina Abramovic has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form. Exploring the physical and mental limits of her being, she has withstood pain, exhaustion, and danger in the quest for transformation.
Marina Abramovic was born in 1946 in Yugoslavia. She was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Artist at the 1997 Venice Biennale. Recent solo exhibitions have included: Seven Easy Pieces, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Star, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan; Marking the Territory, The Hunt, Center for Contemporary Art, Japan; Spirit Houses, France; Marina Abramovic, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Italy, and Public Body–Artist Body, The Kunstverein, Germany. A substantial forthcoming retrospective will be held in 2008 at the Kunst und Ausstellunghalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Germany. She is represented by Sean Kelly Gallery in New York.


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Talking Stick Learning Center has offered programs for Philadelphia area homeschoolers ages 4 to 17 since 2006.
For the 2019-2020 Program Year, we will offer full-day programming on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Our Programs are available in three age groups: Day Program for ages 4 - 10 meeting all three days; Intermediate Program for ages 10-17 and Teen Program for ages 13-17 meeting on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Our programming is held in two separate locations at the Awbury Arboretum; Day Program is at the Garden Classroom, Intermediate Program at the Cope House, and Teen Program is held at both the Garden Classroom and the Cope House.
Additionally, we offer supplemental programs throughout the year, like our famous Math Circle.


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Why are Americans dying at younger ages than they were in previous years? There are a lot of factors in play, but perhaps the two biggest ones are obesity and opioids. Americans are more obese than they ever have been before, which can lead to heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, and other indirect health issues that can snowball. There is also an opioid epidemic caused by legally prescribed pain medications that are being given out for anything and everything, leading to addiction and overdoses. These things have finally caught up to us, giving us one of the worst life expectancies in the developed world.
America's life expectancy is 28th in the world, while we rank first for obesity. Nearly 30,000 people die each year from overdoses, and that is on the rise. There are a lot of preventable deaths occurring, so why aren't we focusing on preventing them? Learn more about why America's life expectancy is in decline from this infographic!


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This September, BBC iPlayer will be the place to go to get your style fix from London Fashion Week in a collection of three exclusive programmes. Find out about the hottest new trends, straight from the catwalk with Daisy Lowe, meet the glamorous celebrity front rowers with Abbey Clancy and go behind the scenes with Susie Bubble.
Susie Bubble Backstage sees Susie Bubble (aka Susie Lau), founder of world famous fashion blog Style Bubble get the inside track backstage at some of the biggest shows at London Fashion Week Spring Summer 2015. Susie navigates us through the hustle and bustle of backstage prep; where hairdressers, make-up artists and stylists have just a few hours to get the models ready ... just enough time for Susie to dive deep into the rails and rails of designer clothes and find out what it takes to pull off these amazing shows. Susie Bubble Backstage is available exclusively on BBC iPlayer from 16th Sept.
In Abbey Clancy on Frowers, model, presenter and Strictly Come Dancing champion, Abbey Clancy is your guide to the illustrious world of the front row. From Hollywood A-listers to British stars, Abbey will find out how these 'frowers' get to that hallowed line of chairs and what their picks of the week are. Abbey Clancy on Frowers is available exclusively on BBC iPlayer from 17th Sept.
Abbey Clancy said: "It's exciting being on the front row and being dressed by some of the best designers around. I love all the hustle and bustle surrounding fashion week. London is renowned for being one of the best fashion weeks around and the city is buzzing for the whole week".
Daisy Lowe on Trends. In this programme Daisy takes us on journey through the catwalk trends of Spring Summer 2015. Find out what's in and what's out, as Daisy rounds up this season's style highlights. Daisy Lowe on Trends is available exclusively on BBC iPlayer from 18th Sept.
Daisy Lowe, speaking about Trends, said: "I love London Fashion Week because its bursting with creativity, with each show being such a beautiful surprise – and it's my favourite city!"
Speaking about BBC iPlayer's London Fashion week programing, Victoria Jaye, Head of TV Content for BBC iPlayer said: "London Fashion Week is one of the most high profile fashion events in the world. It's wonderful to be collaborating with the British Fashion Council to bring this event to BBC iPlayer and celebrate Britain's reputation for innovation and creativity in this global industry. I'm absolutely thrilled style icons and experts Daisy Lowe, Abbey Clancy and Susie Bubble are our guides to every aspect of the show – we just couldn't be in better hands".


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TOUR: Sunrise in Pedra Bonita! Best way to start a day!
Cayo is a great guy & very friendly. and the Tour was amazing! i never heard about this attraction through many websites and traveling apps before i went to Rio, and I'm really happy for it. the view and sunrise was absolutely unique and mesmerizing!


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Here's a statistical tale for you to ponder. Georgia finished last season +10 in turnover margin. Not surprisingly, the Dawgs were better in that metric in their wins (+15) than in their losses (minus-5).
But here's the strange part: in both cases, they ranked quite well in comparison with their conference peers. Georgia finished first in the SEC in turnover margin in wins – with a big gap between them and the rest of the SEC when you measure on a per game basis – and fourth in losses (third on a per game basis). So on a quantitative basis, you might think turnovers mattered more last season in helping the team win than in contributing to the losing. Yet, if you're like me, it's the key turnovers in the losses that stick in your brain. The Florida game was the only one where the sheer number of times Georgia flipped the ball was the controlling factor. To the extent that turnovers negatively affected the outcome, the rest came more from bad timing than the numbers.


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Workforce on demand
Companies are taking a more sophisticated approach to managing all aspects of the workforce including hourly, contingent, and contract employees.
Reinventing HR
HR is undergoing an extreme makeover to deliver greater business impact and drive HR and business innovation.
People data everywhere
HR and talent organizations are expanding their HR data strategies by harnessing and integrating third party social media platform data about their people.
Simplification of work
Deloitte's 2015 human capital trends report finds organizations simplifying work environments and practices in response to increasing organization and system complexity and information overload.


text: (n) Doctrine of Attractive nuisance holds a person liable for the loss or suffering caused to a child, by making or causing to make a situation or event which may attract a child consequently leading to an accident, loss or damages. Eg. Leaving a pit uncovered or unfenced.2. Carelessly leaving a harmful object. Recent enactments limits its preview to liabilities arising out of foreseeable danger only.


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Some of you might want to try Linux even on very old computers of "Prepentian" era of the early 1990's. Some of the distros I mentioned in my earlier post about lightweight distros can be used with a 486. Most of the modern distributions, however, require a Pentium.
Three are still some distributions meant for these dinosaurs. They might not be very useful for doing everyday computing like word processing or playing TuxRacer, but using them should be taken as learning experiences.
One of these truly minimalistic distributions is Basic Linux. Its download size is incredible 2.8 MB, so it could easily be downloaded even by those who still use a dialup connection.
Basic Linux is one of the few distributions that still can be installed on a 386. It requires 12 mb of RAM to run. Unfortunately my old 386 has only 2 mb RAM which makes it impossible for me to test this distribution. I'll return later to Basic Linux if I can get my hands on appropriate hardware!
Lightweight Linux is a blog about using Linux on old computers. Lightweight distributions and applications bring your old hardware back to life!
Basic Linux - a Distribution for Really Old Computers
3 comments:
- zmjjmz said...
BasicLinux is pretty cool, and they have a bunch of old software packages to extend it with.
You can try to run it from DOS on that 386 by the way, but you'd probably want at least 4MB to do anything.
- August 13, 2008 at 6:30 PM
- Mikko said...
My 386 has still some version of MS-DOS installed on it. Maybe I should dig it back to the daylight from the basement :-)
- August 14, 2008 at 11:00 AM
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In spite of generally positive economic data, and spending much of the day in positive territory, the broad-based S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^SPX) finished the day modestly lower, dragged down by a combination of profit-taking, as well as number of high-profile earnings disappointments.
The big news of the day on the economic front was the release of better-than-expected weekly initial jobless claims data. For the week, jobless claims dipped 7.5% to a seasonally adjusted 319,000. It also ended what had been a two-week surge in weekly jobless claims. Although week-to-week fluctuations should be taken with a grain of salt and not overreacted to, any figure below a seasonally adjusted 350,000 represents, in my opinion, steady improvement in the jobs market that could push the unemployment rate eventually down toward 6%.
Working against the S&P 500, though, were a number of high-profile earnings disappointments, perhaps none bigger than Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA). Although Tesla topped Wall Street's adjusted EPS estimates of $0.10 per share in profit by $0.02, its guidance and continuing GAAP losses left a lot to be desired. As a Tesla short-seller, it's good to see a bit of reality creeping back into Tesla's valuation; but it also acts as a deflator for the overall market.
By day's end, the S&P 500 had dipped 2.58 points (0.14%), to close at 1,875.63. Despite the move lower, there were plenty of companies bucking the trend and surging to the upside.
None had a bigger move higher than small-cap biotech Cheslea Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CHTP), which jumped 31.6% after agreeing to be purchased by Danish pharmaceutical company H. Lundbeck. Under the terms of the deal, H. Lundbeck will pay $6.44 in cash to Chelsea's shareholders to get its hands on the company's low-blood-pressure drug Northera, which is used to reduce dizziness in patients with Parkinson's disease. In addition, Lundbeck will pay up to $1.50 per share in contingent value rights based on Northera's sales performance between 2015 and 2017. It seems like a pretty fair shake for both parties involved considering that Chelsea doesn't have experience marketing drugs, and really didn't appear to want to deal with the full marketing costs involved with ramping up sales. In turn, Lundbeck protects itself with the CVRs, just in case Northera fails to reach its peak sales potential of roughly $400 million.
Specialty coffee roaster Keurig Green Mountain (NASDAQ:GMCR) crushed short-sellers' hopes and dreams, once again, by gaining 13% on the day following better-than-expected second-quarter earnings.
For the quarter, Keurig Green Mountain reported a 10% rise in revenue, to $1.1 billion, as net income grew 22%, to $1.08 per share (adjusted). Compared to Wall Street's estimate of $0.95 in EPS on $1.05 billion in sales, Green Mountain again triumphed. Keurig Green Mountain also announced the expansion of an agreement with J.M. Smucker allowing its products to be available for its single-brew system. If there was one bit of mixed news, it was that Keurig Green Mountain reduced its full-year EPS to a fresh range of $3.63-$3.73, down from prior guidance of $3.75-$3.85. The good news is that this new range is in line with the Street's estimates. Based on its numerous partnerships and niche market position, I continue to see plenty of upside opportunity to Keurig Green Mountain shares.
Lastly, Tesla Motors may be putting a damper on CEO Elon Musk's day, but the outperformance of solar panel retailer and leasing company SolarCity (NASDAQ:SCTY) likely brought a smile to his face as the co-founder. Shares of SolarCity brightened up, rising 12.4% after it reported first-quarter earnings after the closing bell last night.
For the quarter, SolarCity added 17,664 customers and booked 136 MW of electric-generating capacity. More importantly, with its launch into Nevada, it increased its guidance to 500 MW to 550 MW deployed from its prior estimate of 475 MW to 525 MW for the year. It also established 2015 guidance of 900 MW to 1,000 MW deployed. While this is great news, and it continues to be an attractive play on paper, its adjusted loss of $0.82 per share was wider than Wall Street expected. Until SolarCity can drastically put a dent in those quarterly losses, it might be wise to keep your expectations of the company tempered.


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When it comes to eating better, one of the very least useful things you can do, in my opinion, is count calories.
Counting calories, and specifically reducing calories might seem like a great way to become healthy and to lose weigh. But the simple fact is that calories alone are not a good way to place a value on a food.
In this podcast – number 5 (whoop whoop!) – Lisa Beasley, the amazing mindful eating coach and I, a slightly ranty nutritional therapist, get stuck into the latest campaign around reducing calories for children to reduce childhood obesity.
We do get a little bit feisty about this one – probably because my experience as a nutritionist is that dieting, and counting calories as a child never works and Lisa remembers being worried about foods when she was younger, and realises that it simply didn't help. Do take a listen and let us know what you think!
"They are literally banging on the wrong door, shouting at the wrong people, using the wrong language to try to solve a problem which has got nothing to do with calories." Me getting a little bit ranty in this episode.
The reason that we don't go into detail about the RIGHT way to deal with childhood obesity in this podcast is quite simple: there isn't one simple, straightforward answer. Every single child is different, and needs a different approach. What works for one child might not be what another child needs – that's why just telling everyone to count calories is pointless.
If you are concerned about your child, first of all: please don't tell them that they are overweight. Don't make them feel bad for liking the foods that they like. And don't, please, for the love of all things tasty in the world, put your child on a diet.
I can help you and your child eat better. To find out what foods are going to give your child the nourishment he or she needs to be healthy, happy and well (regardless of how 'big' they are) and Lisa can do a stellar job of helping you change your mindset around food. Do get in touch with either of us –Lisa or Claire – we'd love to help.


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Community right to challenge
A voluntary or community group can 'express an interest' or bid to run services that are provided by the local authority where they feel they can do so differently and better. For a full details of what voluntary and community groups are defined as in this instance, read Gov.UK, community right to challenge, sections 1.4 to 1.15
The government guidance notes provides detailed information about:
- services that groups and communities can express an interest in bidding for
- when expressions of interest can be made
- what information you need in order to express an interest
- on what grounds an expression of interest may be rejected
- amending an expression of interest
- the procurement process
The website My Community also provides further information about how community groups can get involved in the running of services.
Submitting an expression of interest
If you want to submit an expression of interest, contact our Legal team.
Community right to bid
This allows community groups an opportunity to organise a bid to purchase important local land or buildings if they are for sale. The first step in the community right to bid process is that local groups or parish councils need to nominate buildings or land as 'assets of community value.'
If any of these assets of community value come up for sale, the community can request a 'moratorium' on the sale. This essentially means there is a pause in the sale process until the community can pull together enough financial or business support in order to buy the asset. The moratorium period is usually six months.
The government policy notes provides an overview of the community right to bid.
The website My Community (understanding the community right to bid) also provides more information about this and also offers support and advice should your community decide to bid for an asset.
Submitting a bid
If you want to submit a bid, contact our Shared Legal team at firstname.lastname@example.com
Nominations accepted as a community asset
|Name of nomination
|Date nomination received
|Date listed as an asset
Beehive, Horringer
|28 April 2015
|8 June 2015
Bennet Arms Public House, Rougham
|1 March 2017
|18 April 2017
|The Bird in Hand Public House/Hotel, Beck Row
|20 March 2019
|15 May 2019
The Bull Public House, Troston
|18 September 2018
|14 June 2019
|The Burton Centre, Camps Road, Haverhill
|22 October 2012
|6 December 2012
The Cock, Little Thurlow
|16 June 2015
|9 July 2015
Corn Exchange, Haverhill
|24 September 2013
|19 November 2013
|The Crown and Castle Public House
|1 August 2017
|26 September 2017
The Fox, Pakenham
|19 June 2013
|18 September 2013
The Greyhound Inn, Flempton
|4 December 2017
|2 February 2018
The Marquis of Cornwallis Public House and Associated Land, The Street, Chedburgh, Bury St Edmunds, IP29 4UH.
|30 September 2016
|23 November 2016
|Oak Community Woodland (site 2903, Woodland adjacent to Rougham Hill Lorry Park)
|3 February 2016
|30 March 2016
|Solstice House (previously Fox and Hounds pub) Felsham Road, Bradfield St George
|1 April 2014
|6 May 2014
|Solstice House (previously Fox and Hounds pub) Felsham Road, Bradfield St George - Relisted
|8 April 2019
|28 May 2019
The Swan Inn, Thetford Road, Coney Weston, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 1DN
|11 July 2016
|09 August 2016
Weeping Willow, 39 Bury Road, Barrow
|25 February 2015
|11 March 2015
|The White Horse Public House (currently known as Brahman's Wood, Great Barton
|11 July 2014
3 September 2014
Old Police Station, 2 Icepits Road,
Newmarket CB8 8HR
|27 June 2018
|3 August 2018
Land and buildings removed from the register
|Name of Lisburn
|Date removed from register
|Doric Cinema, 146/146A High Street, Newmarket
|30 April 2018


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Evince doesn't anti-alias graphics
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Fix Released
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Fix Released
|poppler (Ubuntu)
|Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Nominated for Lucid by Bob D
Bug Description
Binary package hint: evince
Scanned documents are very hard to read in evince because, regardless of how high their resolution, scanned images are not (or at least are very badly?) anti-aliased and look jagged unless scaled up to 150% or 200%. By comparison, the same documents look smooth and legible even when viewed at 50% in xpdf or Adobe Reader.
(I'm using Ubuntu 8.04.1, evince 2.22.2-0ubuntu1)
Related branches
- James Westby (community): Needs Fixing on 2010-03-31
- Sebastien Bacher: Pending requested 2010-03-31
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debian/patches/backport-anti-alias.patch (+515/-0)
|Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :
does that happens with all the pdf images you're looking? Can you submit a document example? May you take an screenshot of the issue? thanks,
|Changed in evince:
|nobody → desktop-bugs
|Undecided → Low
|New → Incomplete
|joehill (joseph-hill) wrote :
Yes, I have hundreds of black and white documents I've scanned or downloaded and I have the same problem with all of them. Here are two screenshots comparing evince with xpdf and the document they come from.
Although I can basically read it in evince, it hurts my eyes and takes me about twice as long to read as it takes using xpdf. Since I spend a large part of each day reading scanned texts, I've switched to using xpdf to read these documents to save time and my eyes.
|joehill (joseph-hill) wrote :
...another screenshot at somewhat higher magnification. Note the artifacts around some of the letters (such as "2. Humankind") and general jaggedness.
|joehill (joseph-hill) wrote :
...and the pdf file in question (although the same applies to all the b&w scanned pdfs I've tried).
|Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :
I've tried the document you attached with xpdf, adobe acrobad and evince and it doesn't look quite different to me at least, anyways re assigning to poppler for now
|Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :
We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.
|Changed in poppler:
|Incomplete → Invalid
|joehill (joseph-hill) wrote :
I guess we disagree on whether or not the image quality in evince is acceptable. I've been using okular recently because, for me, evince is simply not usable for viewing graphical documents.
|Niall Gallagher (npgall) wrote :
I can confirm that this bug is present for me in Evince (Document Viewer) 2.24.1, which is "using poppler 0.8.7 (cairo)". I'm on Ubuntu 8.10.
This bug renders Evince useless for displaying PDFs which contain high resolution graphs; graphs which I have to look at daily. Specifically this is going to affect badly the display of PDF files which contain images having a higher resolution than the screen on which they will be displayed. Such rendering will lose information in the source image entirely. PDFs which contain images having a lower resolution than the screen on which they will be displayed will not be affected so badly; no pixels will be ignored. But such enlarged images will not look smooth.
See attached screenshots of the same page in the same PDF rendered both in Evince and in Adobe Reader 8 (which I've installed as a stop-gap). Both are rendered at 100% zoom. Clearly the Evince-rendered graph is badly broken. Parts of the line graph are not rendered at all.
Knowing a bit about image manipulation; this is because Evince is simply displaying every nth pixel from the high-res source image on screen verbatim (without interpolation), instead of displaying an average of source pixel values around the sample points within the source image. Evince ignores the pixels between sample points in the source image, which in the case of the fine-detailed graph causes it to not render parts of the graph at all.
|Niall Gallagher (npgall) wrote :
Same PDF rendered in Adobe Reader 8.
|Niall Gallagher (npgall) wrote :
Reopening bug. Attached screenshots which confirm the issue.
|Changed in poppler:
|Invalid → Confirmed
|Niall Gallagher (npgall) wrote :
Changing bug status from 'confirmed' to 'new' per instructions on how to re-open it. Note that I've attached evidence which confirms the bug.
|Changed in poppler:
|Confirmed → New
|odaagan (teitur-arnarson) wrote :
I've had the same problem for as long as I can remember (i.e. since 2006 or so). My solutions so far have been either to convert the document to djvu-format (using any2djvu) or to read it in okular (former kpdf?), which does not have this rendering problem.
In the attachement you see to the left the evince version and to the right the okular version.
|Daniel Pirch (dpirch) wrote :
The bug is still present in Jaunty. Evince is hardly usable for certain documents, you have to use Okular or Adobe Reader
|syrex314 (syrex314) wrote :
Same bug persists in Jaunty, evince version 2.26.1. Problem occurs most frequently in scientific literature that I've downloaded. Okular and Acrobat reader render the same PDFs just fine. Contemplating switch to KDE...
Attached screenshot showing okular (left hand side of screen) vs evince (right hand side of screen) rendering of same PDF.
|schmolch (saschaheid) wrote :
Same here.
I can not view b/w scans with poppler, is there no aa switch we can enable?
|Alexander Jones (alex-weej) wrote :
This is embarrassing. It seems anything non-text isn't anti-aliased!
|syrex314 (syrex314) wrote :
Actually, it's not -quite- "anything non-text". It's anything in 1bit black and white color, such as most scanned documents. Grayscale or color images are antialiased, but for some reason not the black and white document scans that could benefit the most. They're displayed as eye stabbing crunchy aliased illegibility.
|huug (dsjarw) wrote :
I just upgraded to Karmic hoping for improvement, but it got worse. The AA used to be bad, now there is none. If you look carefully at the okular vs evince image you'll see some grey pixels in the evince rendered text. This is how it used to look on my system also, but now there is only black and white resulting in complete illegibility.
Is someone working on this?
|loafing (guojq28) wrote :
Still happens on Karmic for me. It is even worse than reading it using google doc.
In the attached screen shot, the left side is open in google doc since it is an email attachment.
The right side is open by evince.
If the problem cannot get solved, I cannot read paper on ubuntu. So kind of I got to switch back to windows.
Thanks if somebody will solve this.
|joehill (joseph-hill) wrote :
Hi Loafing,
I'm using okular to read pdfs for the moment, and occasionally xpdf for all the PDFs that crash okular and evince. I haven't seen any developer interest in this bug, so I'm not holding my breath to be able to use evince any time soon.
On the bright side, there are several pdf readers available on Ubuntu, all of which anti-alias well except evince, so there's no need to switch operating systems.
acroread is what most of the academics in my department settle with, for
exactly this reason.
2009/10/31 joehill <email address hidden>
> Hi Loafing,
> I'm using okular to read pdfs for the moment, and occasionally xpdf for
> all the PDFs that crash okular and evince. I haven't seen any developer
> interest in this bug, so I'm not holding my breath to be able to use
> evince any time soon.
> On the bright side, there are several pdf readers available on Ubuntu,
> all of which anti-alias well except evince, so there's no need to switch
> operating systems.
> Joe
> --
> Evince doesn't anti-alias graphics
> https:/
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
|Max Sadrieh (max.sadrieh) wrote :
I can confirm this bug. It seems to be a problem with poppler as both evince and epdf have this problem. Neither acroread nor xpdf have it.
This bug appeared after I upgraded to Karmic.
Attached is a screenshot of the 4 applications.
|huug (dsjarw) wrote :
I did some research and found out that this is a Poppler bug and is related to this bug :
also https:/
In order to fix the above bug the interpolation default was turned off (interpolate = gFalse in Gfx.cc)
The core problem is that the cairo backend only seems to do either full bilinear interpolation or none (nearest neighbour) while it should ALWAYS filter during minification and either interpolate or edge smooth during magnification. Until this is available they should put the interpolation default back on.
|Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :
could somebody still having the issue send this upstream to bugs.freedeskto
|huug (dsjarw) wrote :
I submitted a patch to http://
|Changed in poppler (Ubuntu):
|New → Triaged
|Changed in poppler:
|Unknown → Confirmed
|Michael Doube (michael-doube) wrote :
Looking forward to this patch making it downstream. I read a lot of scientific literature and at the moment evince's inability to antialias scanned journal articles (how many of the journals distribute their older material) makes me kill trees by printing out articles, just so the text is legible.
|Alexander Jones (alex-weej) wrote :
2009/11/22 Michael Doube <email address hidden>:
> Looking forward to this patch making it downstream. I read a lot of
> scientific literature and at the moment evince's inability to antialias
> scanned journal articles (how many of the journals distribute their
> older material) makes me kill trees by printing out articles, just so
> the text is legible.
> --
> Evince doesn't anti-alias graphics
> https:/
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
|Michael Doube (michael-doube) wrote :
Worse, Acrobat on XP :-P
2009/11/22 Alexander Jones
> acroread
|molecule-eye (niburu1) wrote :
This bug has been around for ages and it's quite a significant one. At least, it's one that deserves to have been patched years ago!
|Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :
patches are welcome though.
|Changed in poppler:
|Confirmed → Fix Released
|Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :
the issue is fixed in git
|Changed in poppler (Ubuntu):
|Triaged → Fix Committed
|Oliver Joos (oliver-joos) wrote :
I checked Lucid alpha 3 booted as Live-CD (evince 2.29.91, poppler 0.12.3) and this bug is not fixed there. Perhaps the fix just did not make it into alpha 3. Otherwise the status of this bug should be reverted.
The attached screenshot shows evince against gscan2pdf in Lucid alpha 3 rendering the same PDF document. The document was scanned and consists of full-page JPGs.
|huug (dsjarw) wrote :
It is fixed in poppler 0.13.1 (unstable) and should go in the stable 0.14 branch when it comes out
|Benjamin Humphrey (humphreybc) wrote :
Our entire team has the same issue in Ubuntu, across Karmic and Lucid. The fonts are okay, but the images are very jagged/not anti-aliased.
I'm not sure whether this is the same issue as what we are having so I have posted some screenshots. If it's the same bug and it has been fixed then that is fantastic, can't wait for it to hit main.
The PDF in question is http://
Our team is https:/
|Benjamin Humphrey (humphreybc) wrote :
|Changed in poppler (Ubuntu):
|Fix Committed → Confirmed
|Changed in poppler (Ubuntu):
|Confirmed → Fix Committed
|Jeremy Bicha (jbicha) wrote :
Pedro, are you sure this is "fix committed"? Has the new version of poppler (0.13.1 or 0.13.2) been uploaded for Lucid?
|Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :
Jeremy, Fix committed means that bug the bug is fixed upstream but the package has not yet been uploaded for ubuntu but will be.
|Jeremy Bicha (jbicha) wrote :
The distinction between fix committed and fix released isn't clear. I see that the upstream bug was marked fix released which is correct. I thought the Ubuntu-specific bug should be marked fix committed when the fix was uploaded or in -pending, and fix released when it is actually available for people to use. I'm just concerned that this won't be fixed before release unless action is taken...and inaction makes the Ubuntu manual look uglier than it should.
|Anders Kaseorg (andersk) wrote :
The bug task is labelled poppler (Ubuntu), not poppler (Ubuntu Lucid). Since the fix is planned to be uploaded for Lucid+1, this marking is correct.
It would be massively irresponsible to upload a development version of poppler (0.13.x) to Lucid so late in the LTS release cycle. If you want this fixed for Lucid, someone needs to backport the appropriate patches to 0.12.4 and post a debdiff against the current version in Lucid (0.12.4-0ubuntu2). I don't know how easy that would be, nor whether such a patch would be accepted into Lucid after FeatureFreeze, but at least it would have a chance.
Anyway, my main point is that arguing about the bug status is not going to accomplish anything.
|Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :
the current way settings are used is not optimal right but it's easier to see which bugs have fixes which can be backported or closed in new uploads looking at the lists
the new version will not be uploaded to lucid, it's going to be stable after lucid and depends on an unstable cairo version
|Benjamin Humphrey (humphreybc) wrote :
So we can't get this in Lucid in time?
|Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :
sorry the change there doesn't require cairo change I was thinking about some other one, I reviewed this change some time ago see bug #92296 but the difference was not obvious and none of the example of launchpad seems to render differently, we could get the fix in still if some users can verify it's working as it should
|Josh Holland (jshholland) wrote :
I have fixed this in the branch. Filing a merge request.
|Josh Holland (jshholland) wrote :
I can verify that it fixes the problems too.
|Anders Kaseorg (andersk) wrote :
Josh: Your patch modifies Makefile.am without updating Makefile.in or causing the packaging to run automake. So it fails to build the new object and dies with a linker error.
After fixing that, it seems to work for me on the examples from this bug, such as ubuntu-
I would suggest annotating the patch to say where it came from:
|Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
This bug was fixed in the package poppler - 0.12.4-0ubuntu3
poppler (0.12.4-0ubuntu3) lucid; urgency=low
* Updated the patch to work without having to run autotools at buildtime
[ Josh Holland ]
* Add backport-
-- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:10:37 +0200
|Changed in poppler (Ubuntu):
|Fix Committed → Fix Released
|Changed in poppler (Debian):
|Unknown → New
|sybille (sybillel) wrote :
I checked out the patched version with the Lucid Daily Live CD, and it looks great. Thanks!
Is there any chance that the patch could be backported for Karmic?
|Benjamin Humphrey (humphreybc) wrote :
The patch arrived in Lucid updates today, and while it fixes most of the images, some still remain the same. For example, take the two attachments I posted.
"evince.png" is now fixed, but the second one of Rhythmbox, "evince2.png" remains the same. And they're both in the same PDF.
|Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :
> Is there any chance that the patch could be backported for Karmic?
there is no karmic change schedule for the moment no, lucid be stable in 2 weeks
|sybille (sybillel) wrote :
>there is no karmic change schedule for the moment no, lucid be stable in 2 weeks
Yes, I know that lucid will be released shortly. But I myself will not be upgrading immediately because I am working on a long project and I want to wait until that is finished. The project involves a lot of scanned-paper PDF files, which is why I was asking about a backport. I suppose I will continue to use Okular.
BTW, every PDF I tried is anti-aliased with the patch in lucid. These are all black-and-white images, in varying resolutions (150-600 dpi). The comment above indicating that the patch is not working for all images concerns color images. Maybe that is a meaningful difference.
|Albert Huang (ash-debian) wrote :
this doesn't appear to be fixed, at least for the documents I'm looking at.
For example:
|joehill (joseph-hill) wrote :
Thanks, I can confirm that this problem is fixed for me in Lucid Beta 1.
|Brewster Malevich (brews) wrote :
I'm with #52, the document ( http://
|sybille (sybillel) wrote :
For me, some of the pages of document posted in #52 are anti-aliased with the patch in Lucid, and some of the pages in that same document are not.
I haven't found any other PDF file like that in my collection of many hundreds of PDF files (I didn't try all of them, just several arbitrarily chosen groups of different PDF files).
It's odd.
|sybille (sybillel) wrote :
I've attached a screen shot of two pages of the PDF posted in comment #52 as rendered by evince in Lucid (updated on April 11).
Check out the difference in the rendering in the thumbnail images on the left. The thumbnail for page 9, which is anti-aliased, appears in grey tones, while the thumbnails of the pages which are not anti-aliased appear in black-and-white. The pages themselves are rendered similarly to the thumbnails, as the screenshots show.
In xpdf, all of the pages are anti-aliased equally, both in Lucid and in Karmic. Likewise in Okular. Since these two applications also use poppler, it seems that there is something specific to evince that still needs attention.
|sybille (sybillel) wrote :
I changed the status back to "new" to reopen this bug because, as per the last series of messages, the fix to poppler does not fix the rendering in Evince for all PDFs. Sorry if this wasn't the correct action to take; I just wanted to make sure that the bug remains visible.
|Changed in poppler (Ubuntu):
|Fix Released → New
|Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :
the bug described there has been fixed, if you still have an issue open a new one
|Changed in poppler (Ubuntu):
|New → Fix Released
|sybille (sybillel) wrote :
>the bug described there has been fixed, if you still have an issue open a new one
Three people in this thread have reported that the bug has not been fixed for all PDFs when viewed in Evince.
|pazuzuthewise (pazuzuthewise) wrote :
I believe I've encountered the same bug in Mint 8 XFCE CE (based on Karmic).
I have evince 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.2 and, respectively, libpoppler-glib4, libpoppler5 and poppler-utils version 0.12.0-0ubuntu2.1
Uploading screenshots of the same scanned (black-and-white) pdf:
- Pdf file: [url=http://
- Evince screenshot:
- Xpdf screenshot:
|Giorgi Maghlakelidze (dracid) wrote :
I would like to report the same thing happening on Lucid, Evince 2.30.0
Rendering *VERY* low quality bitmaps.
Fixing this would be a wonderful improvement of Evince experience...
Please look into this. Just take any PDF document with a bitmap inside.
|MatthiasA (themaze) wrote :
Fix released? Having the same problem in Ubuntu Lucid x64.
Adobe renders the scans much better than evince.
|m0sia (m0sia) wrote :
The same problem with Lucid up-to-date. Sebastien Bacher, what information do you need to consider that the issue is not fixed yet?
|m0sia (m0sia) wrote :
I've used the patch(#30) and added patched applet to my ppa.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:m0sia
|m0sia (m0sia) wrote :
sorry, i've missed the window and posted comment to this bug. I don't know how to delete my comment.
|Krzysztof Janowicz (janowicz) wrote :
same problem. pdf's with gradients (e.g. a logo) look good on okular but very bad on evince
|Roman Krylov (volyrkr) wrote :
With poppler-0.14.1 and evince-2.30.3 rebuilt on gentoo looks like fixed too.
|Changed in poppler:
|Unknown → High
|m0sia (m0sia) wrote :
The problem is solved in 10.10.
|vvdghj (vvdghj) wrote :
Evince is not perfect for reading Google (e)books. See attachments in which Evince makes parts of the text completely disappear, wheras Foxit renders them well.
Examples taken from:
|vvdghj (vvdghj) wrote :
see: https:/
Images not showing in evince, JPX errors
|Changed in poppler:
|High → Unknown
|Changed in poppler (Debian):
|New → Fix Committed
|Changed in poppler (Debian):
|Fix Committed → Fix Released
|Changed in poppler:
|Unknown → High


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