Annotation items blurry and pixelated

Taking a screen region snapshot on my 3840x2160 (DPI: 165) screen results in the screenshots being extremely blurry and unreadable:

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Type ksnip -r into terminal
2. Select region.
3. Look at snapshot created in ksnip

Expected behavior The image should be sharp and should be able to read the text.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Linux
• Distribution in case of Linux: Arch Linux (5.11.2-arch1-1)
• Window System in case of Linux: X11
• ksnip version: ksnip 1.8.1-2
• How did you install ksnip: yay -S ksnip

Just for testing purpose, can you please check if you can reproduce this issue with the AppImage from the continuous build of version 1.9.0 here

I downloaded the appimage and ran it, but the version is still listed as 1.8.1. Is that expected?

Anyways, same results:

@amamut can you please check if you are maybe facing this issue https://github.com/ksnip/ksnip/issues/611

Might not be the same but it's worth trying, one user is seeing pixelated screenshots with HiDPI when auto copy to clipboard enabled and with it disabled (which is the default) it looks ok.

This should be fixed now in 1.8.2 and 1.9.0

@DamirPorobic it looks a lot better. Only issue now is that arrows are pixelated:

I cannot reproduce that. You just take a screenshot and then draw an arrow?

Can you double check with AppImage?

Yes that's all I did. The screenshot came through very sharp but when adding an arrow, it comes through very jagged and pixelated (as in the screenshot).

I am currently using the AppImage (1.9.0-continuous)

Very strange, just tested the AppImage myself, works. Checked the code, Antialiasing is enabled.

Is it with all items or just the arrow? Can you try lines, rect, number badges?

Do you use Gnome, Plasma or another Window Manager?

It seems to be happening with everything:

Blowing up the image you can see a clear difference between the font and the diagonal red line:

I'm currently use i3-gaps

Whats the simplest way to setup a VM like you have there?

This is how it looks for me

What is your setup?

I run OpenSUSE 15.2 with Plasma. Tried to install Arch Linux in VirtualBox but it doesn't look like something that can be down without reading a lot of guides.

Yeah installing Arch is a bit of a process but here is guide which lists every command quickly: https://wiki.learnlinux.tv/index.php/How_to_Install_Arch_Linux

Some items are optional and some may be need to change depending on Disk arrangement.

Dude, what the ... xD

I don't have the mental capacity to do that tonight. I might look into it in next couple of days when I find some time.

yeah np. I think in its current form its usable for me as I don't annotate very often. Thanks for the help though!

I'm running at 125% display scaling and ksnip 1.9.2 is almost working fine now - the screenshot is taken and saved with no distortion. But if I open an existing PNG using ksnip -e %f, the image becomes larger and pixelated.