diff --git a/HEADER.js b/HEADER.js
index 72d953fa..4a86b150 100644
--- a/HEADER.js
+++ b/HEADER.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*! Fabric.js Copyright 2008-2011, Bitsonnet (Juriy Zaytsev, Maxim Chernyak) */
 
-var fabric = fabric || { version: "0.5.8" };
+var fabric = fabric || { version: "0.5.9" };
 
 if (typeof exports != 'undefined') {
   exports.fabric = fabric;
diff --git a/dist/all.js b/dist/all.js
index b3c74a36..396cf70d 100644
--- a/dist/all.js
+++ b/dist/all.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*! Fabric.js Copyright 2008-2011, Bitsonnet (Juriy Zaytsev, Maxim Chernyak) */
 
-var fabric = fabric || { version: "0.5.8" };
+var fabric = fabric || { version: "0.5.9" };
 
 if (typeof exports != 'undefined') {
   exports.fabric = fabric;
@@ -5695,27 +5695,24 @@ fabric.util.string = {
           scaledHeight = origHeight * multiplier,
           activeObject = this.getActiveObject();
       
-      if (multiplier > 1) {
-        // we're only changing canvas dimensions when retrieving _enlarged_ version of data url, 
-        // since canvas element needs to accomodate increased dimensions
-        // when multiplier is <=1 canvas dimensions stay the same (and only context scaling changes)
-        this.setWidth(scaledWidth).setHeight(scaledHeight);
-      }
-
+      this.setWidth(scaledWidth).setHeight(scaledHeight);
       this.contextTop.scale(multiplier, multiplier);
-      this.renderAll(true);
       
       if (activeObject) {
-        this.deactivateAll().renderAll();
+        this.deactivateAll();
       }
       
+      // restoring width, height for `renderAll` to draw 
+      // background properly (while context is scaled)
+      this.width = origWidth;
+      this.height = origHeight;
+      
+      this.renderAll(true);
+      
       var dataURL = this.toDataURL(format);
 
-      this.contextTop.scale( 1 / multiplier,  1 / multiplier);
-      
-      if (multiplier > 1) {
-        this.setWidth(origWidth).setHeight(origHeight);
-      }
+      this.contextTop.scale(1 / multiplier,  1 / multiplier);
+      this.setWidth(origWidth).setHeight(origHeight);
       
       if (activeObject) {
         this.setActiveObject(activeObject);
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c9eb085d..1aa91090 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {  
   "name": "fabric", 
   "description":  "Object model for HTML5 canvas, and SVG-to-canvas parser. Backed by jsdom and node-canvas.", 
-  "version":  "0.5.8", 
+  "version":  "0.5.9", 
   "author": "Juriy Zaytsev <kangax@gmail.com>", 
   "keywords": ["canvas", "graphic", "graphics", "SVG", "node-canvas", "parser", "HTML5", "object model"],
   "repository": "git://github.com/kangax/fabric.js", 
diff --git a/src/canvas.class.js b/src/canvas.class.js
index 5c54b8c6..b7afd6af 100644
--- a/src/canvas.class.js
+++ b/src/canvas.class.js
@@ -1440,27 +1440,24 @@
           scaledHeight = origHeight * multiplier,
           activeObject = this.getActiveObject();
       
-      if (multiplier > 1) {
-        // we're only changing canvas dimensions when retrieving _enlarged_ version of data url, 
-        // since canvas element needs to accomodate increased dimensions
-        // when multiplier is <=1 canvas dimensions stay the same (and only context scaling changes)
-        this.setWidth(scaledWidth).setHeight(scaledHeight);
-      }
-
+      this.setWidth(scaledWidth).setHeight(scaledHeight);
       this.contextTop.scale(multiplier, multiplier);
-      this.renderAll(true);
       
       if (activeObject) {
-        this.deactivateAll().renderAll();
+        this.deactivateAll();
       }
       
+      // restoring width, height for `renderAll` to draw 
+      // background properly (while context is scaled)
+      this.width = origWidth;
+      this.height = origHeight;
+      
+      this.renderAll(true);
+      
       var dataURL = this.toDataURL(format);
 
-      this.contextTop.scale( 1 / multiplier,  1 / multiplier);
-      
-      if (multiplier > 1) {
-        this.setWidth(origWidth).setHeight(origHeight);
-      }
+      this.contextTop.scale(1 / multiplier,  1 / multiplier);
+      this.setWidth(origWidth).setHeight(origHeight);
       
       if (activeObject) {
         this.setActiveObject(activeObject);