Hello, I'm trying to create a logo that consists of some text over transparent background. I want it to be in GIF format. I create the text with the text tool. Now in gimp, it looks great. However, when I go and export it to a GIF, the fonts loose quality.
Here is my understanding of what happen: The fonts are anti-aliased using transparency (alpha). Then, before I can save it as GIF, I need to change the mode to indexed, which creates a color map. The color map created actually contains a single color (where in gif it could contain as much as 256 different colors). Since there is only one color, fonts cannot be anti-aliased and that's why they look so bad. I think that since the initial anti-aliasing is done using alpha, all pixels actually have the same color (but different alpha), and that's why the color map contains only a single color. Technically, as far as I understand, there should be no problem to have a good anti-aliased fonts in a gif file. The problem is with the very specific method I (or gimp?) creates the gif. Does anyone here knows how can one create a decent anti-aliased text in gif file? Thanks, Amit _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
