Re: Fw: Re: [PLUG] Gimp Question...

[Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>]

At 01:59 AM 11/21/2001 -0500, paul@dpagin.net wrote:
> > Thanks.  8-)  I just tested that guess.  In a JPG file, the text anti-
> > aliasing works.  In a GIF file, the text anti-aliasing did NOT work.

        That's an interesting "feature" in the GIMP... I understand why 
(it's the easy way out), but that doesn't make it right.


> PNG with only 8bits of color probably doesn't anti-alias either.

        Actually, even an PNG-8 would anti-alias, since a PNG-8 is a 
grayscale PNG and there are 256 levels of gray to work with!  (PNG-24 is 
RGB and PNG-32 is RGBA).


> (Unless it includes an alpha channel in 8bits, which would be
> totally weird.)

        It doesn't, it's just the 8 bits for gray levels.


> PNG and TIFF are actually a perfectly good working format, and will
> reliably open everywhere.

        PSD would be the other good working format - especially if you are 
using layers!


> OK, maybe an original should be stored as a TIF.  Editing should be
> done in the editors native, lossless format, such as XCF.

        Is XCF the native GIMP format?  Is it documented anywhere??   If 
so, I'll add support for it to ImageMagick...


Leonard



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