I'm not sure when this little problem began, but the only system changes have been updates from security.debian. The system is an all stable Woody box. The problem is that images saved in the jpg format appear horribly blurred and smudged. This is true no matter which application saves the image. Gimp, Kpaint, Xv, etc all exhibit the same behavior. If an image is saved in any other format, gif, png, bmp, xbm, etc, when displayed, it looks fine. The problem is most noticeable if text is used, but any object placed on a canvas with any drawing program will have a smudgy, ghost like shadow 20-40 pixels around the object, as well as washed out and blotchy looking color in the object itself. I made a simple black text on white back ground image with Gimp and saved it in jpg, gif, and tif formats. gif and tif look nice and crisp and clean when the image is viewed with a web browser or a image viewing program, but the jpg version looks terrible. Other jpg images from other sources appear fine, so it has to be something happening when a program on this system saves a jpg image. My default desktop is KDE 2.2.2, with X11 4.2.0. I have also tried other window managers, Gnome, Fvwm, IceWm but the same results occur no matter what. All other graphics related items seem to be fine. The default desktop is 800x600 with 24 bit depth, although I have also tried lower resolutions and color depth with no change. The video card is a Trident CyberBlade AGP. I'm quite sure that this problem is something fairly new as I have used Gimp previously to create many web images that were saved in jpg format without this happening. Any ideas as to what might be causing this? Thanks!
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