On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Andrew Kieschnick wrote: > > I've been using the GIMP quite happily to generate GIF titles for my web > > pages. So I've printed some nice anti-aliased red text, clipped it to the > > right size, and try to convert it to an indexed palette, asking for the > > optimal 255 colours. But what happens is that it makes up a 1 colour > > palette with a single red in, and converts all the soft-edged anti-aliased > > text to a jagged, single colour. This doesn't strike me as the best use > > of 255 colours, particularly as I don't think there /were/ 255 individual > > different colours in my original RGB image :) Any ideas what I'm doing > > wrong, or is this a long-standing bug, or what? > > Your text is on a background of some sort, right? If the rest of the image > is transparent, it will indeed do what you describe, due to the way > transparency works in gif. After some struggle I got it to work as expected; this may have something to do with the fact that I was just guessing :-) I think the sequence of events, taking it from where my RGB image was on a transparent background, was *) flatten image, *) add transparent layer, *) select the non-masked area of the image, *) cut, *) convert to indexed, *) save as GIF. And then it looked fine. But it still seems like quite a convoluted way of doing quite a common task if you start with an image with a transparent background. cheers, -- Matthew ( http://www.soup-kitchen.demon.co.uk/ )
