Automattic / Automattic/node-canvas

Image anti-aliasing when downscaling

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Currently, even setting the anti-alias and the patternQuality of the context doesn't provide any anti-aliasing for the images, which gives us not so smooth thumbnails.

I'm assuming this is still the reason: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14748536/node-canvas-image-anti-aliasing-doesnt-seem-to-work

Will there be a version of cairo that supports this? Or any workaround from node-canvas?

This is an example of the downscale resize. Her hairs shouldn't be that "crisp":

![wallpaper-492445](https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/1385850/248354/87b19a04-8b09-11e2-92e3-bf38615036fd.jpg)

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