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[Daniel Fore <Daniel.P.Fore@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm maybe a picture will help explain. This image is 34x34px. Marlin
scales it up to 48x48px and it becomes blurry and pixelated. Now,
imagine that scaled up to 256x256px. It would be awful. We should never
force an image to display larger than it actually is.

** Attachment added: "Scaling Comparison"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/marlin/+bug/779349/+attachment/2152376/+files/Screenshot.png

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/779349

Title:
  don't scale up image previews

Status in Marlin:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Marlin shouldn't scale up images for image previews. This causes
  images to appear pixelated.