On 8/22/07, Amit Ramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. ... GIF doesn't support 8bit alpha, only binary (fully solid or fully transparent) alpha. If you want a font that is rendered for a specific background color, set the background color to the one you want, and use Layers->Transparency->Semi-flatten.
PNG supports 8bit alpha, so if you do not require animation, consider using PNG instead. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
