On 12/08/2016 03:42 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 3:29 PM, SportStar wrote: >> 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. > > The point of bitmap graphics is that it's all pixels, not vectors.
When I make "posters" that will contain both image and text content, I usually do the bitmap content in the GIMP, export the result as PNG, and import it into an new Inkscape file. I do the text and any "line art" as required in Inkscape. The result is a hybrid bitmap/vector image that scales up very well; there will be some loss of resolution in the bitmap content, but text and other vector content will render "perfectly" at any scale when exported as a bitmap file (png or etc.). Export the Inkscape .svg to PDF with text converted to vectors for reliable printing. "Just use Inkscape for the text" is not a great answer, since it does involve getting and learning how to use a whole 'nother program if you have not already done so. But if you will be doing similar work in the future, it's well worth the trouble. :o) _______________________________________________ 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
