>Hi, I am using Gimp 2.8 to design an A1 poster. The poster contains >text and while it looks OK in 100% or 200%, the moment I go to 400% it >all gets pixelated. I have read some info and checked that the text >tool is set to Hinting - Full and Antialiasing is ticked. > >How can I solve this problem ? > >Thanks
Your "A1" poster is tiny. A1 size is 594 mm x 841 mm and your image size in pixels is 592 x 561 pix so I conclude that, apart from the aspect ratio, you have pixels and mm mixed up. Printing that on A1 papergives a resolution of pixels per inch (ppi) For a poster that will be viewed at a distance you do not need phot-grapic quality 300 ppi but you do need better than 25 ppi, say 150 ppi. Make a new canvas, Image -> New, in the advanced section set the horizontal/vertical resolution, set the size in mm. After that work in pixels, Gimp is a raster editor, works with pixels. Then there is the outlining: guessing you did some sort of selection and used that, leaving semi-transparent pixels between the white text and the magenta outline. A better way once you have a text layer is Text to path -> Stroke the path. Apply that to a layer under the text for best results. example attached. Attachments: * http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/353/original/noentry.xcf -- rich2005 (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
