On 05/04/2013 02:42 PM, Rainer Jung wrote: > On 30.04.2013 01:21, Guenter Knauf wrote: >> Hi Daniel, >> I think you did the last revisions of these pics, so I address this >> directly to you ... >> it just came to my attention that the apache_pb*.gif look not so fine as >> the apache_pb*.png ones: >> https://www.apachehaus.net/apache_pb/ >> it looks to me that probably there's some font anti aliasing missing; is >> it possible that you missed that when you created the gifs? > > Don't know how they were produced, but GIFs can only contain 255 > different colors. If you open the gif and check the palette, you can > see, that it is already full and most of the colors are needed for the > feather. I guess the png was first created and then the gif from the png > and there was not good way for a better palette. > > I'm not Daniel though ;) > > Regards, > > Rainer > Well, the GIF was made off the SVG, but what you said was essentially right :) No more colors left = stuff starts looking ugly. The program I originally used did not have advanced palette options, so there wasn't much I could do to make it appear smoother back then.
I've borrowed a different program for creating the GIF images now, and I think the result is looking much better. I hope y'all agree. With regards, Daniel.
