gnewman
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How to make good Small Text in a GIF
How do the web sites put such small text into a GIF image and still have it look good?
I've tried PhotoShop with anti-aliasing and can't get anywhere near that small without it
getting fuzzy and blurred.
Which fonts work at the small sizes?
I've tried PhotoShop with anti-aliasing and can't get anywhere near that small without it
getting fuzzy and blurred.
Which fonts work at the small sizes?
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Of course I assumed true color all along, otherwise how could PhotoShop anti-alias it? That's not the issue.
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Actually, you haven't stated clearly that what is the size you excepted.
If the size is too small (say, less than 8), then no matter which font type you used,
the text cannot be read.
Maybe you can also try "Sharpen" the text when they appeared fuzzy/blurred.
If the size is too small (say, less than 8), then no matter which font type you used,
the text cannot be read.
Maybe you can also try "Sharpen" the text when they appeared fuzzy/blurred.
I think that the best way is to not use anti-alias, and instead use a good small font like Ms Sans Serif or Small Fonts (2-7 pts). Ok, these fonts isn't very beautiful, but they do the trick.
gnewman,
Make the image bigger than you intend to display it (eg 300x200), then use a larger point size on your image. then when you display it in your web-page set the WIDTH/HEIGHT values to a smaller value than the image (eg 150x100).
Works for me - MorFF
Make the image bigger than you intend to display it (eg 300x200), then use a larger point size on your image. then when you display it in your web-page set the WIDTH/HEIGHT values to a smaller value than the image (eg 150x100).
Works for me - MorFF
ASKER
My goal is to use something like PhotoShop to make small type so it can be merged into a GIF. I've had trouble getting PhotoShop to render small type (equivalent of what you can get by typing into WordPad). Since PhotoShop doesn't make the raster fonts available, its hard to get the outline fonts to render cleanly at the same small sizes you can get from a windows app.
Its not very appealing to do use something like MS Word to render the type and cut and paste it off the screen into PhotoShop, but it should work.
MorFF's method of having the browser resize doesn't make any sense at all. If I wanted to drop-sample the text (that's what the browsers do to resize) I would just do that in PhotoShop rather than have a "too big" gif.
Its not very appealing to do use something like MS Word to render the type and cut and paste it off the screen into PhotoShop, but it should work.
MorFF's method of having the browser resize doesn't make any sense at all. If I wanted to drop-sample the text (that's what the browsers do to resize) I would just do that in PhotoShop rather than have a "too big" gif.
Hope this help!!