Simple Text with shadow as transparent gif impossible?

2000-10-11 Thread Rainer Krienke
Hallo, I want to create a transparent gif, containing a text with a drop shadow (for use in a Web-page). Basically creating such an image is not very hard but converting the result to an indexed palette results in a relly bad picture. Here is what I tested: 1. Create a new RGB picture with

Re: Simple Text with shadow as transparent gif impossible?

2000-10-11 Thread James Smaby
What did I wrong? How can I create a showed text stored in a tranparent gif where only the Text and the shadow should be visisble. gif only supports one bit alpha, as you figured out. If you want a picture with 256 bit alpha, use png. Note that support for this on web browsers is not very good

Re: Simple Text with shadow as transparent gif impossible?

2000-10-11 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2000-10-11 at 0915.09 -0400): What did I wrong? How can I create a showed text stored in a tranparent gif where only the Text and the shadow should be visisble. gif only supports one bit alpha, as you figured out. If you want a picture with 256 bit alpha, use png. Note