Thanks for all who took the time to answer and help. I think I've just learned a couple of new things regarding alpha channel and how gimp works, and that now I'll be able to find some educated solution to my problem.
All the best, Amit > > The unfortunate answer is that it cannot be done; there is, > technically, a problem with anti-aliasing text over a transparent > background. GIF implements transparency by specifying a single color > in the colormap to be transparent. They (CompuServe?) could have > defined the GIF file format to treat a range of indexes in the palette > to represent varying levels of transparency, but they did not. There > is nothing the GIMP can do to overcome this limitation of the GIF > format. > > The PNG format DOES support an alpha channel, even in Index Mode; so > you might see if that meets your needs. > > One thing to note is that converting to Indexed Mode in the GIMP will > alias your layers even if the background of the image is not > transparent. However, if you remain in RGB Mode and let the GIF save > plug-in perform the Indexed conversion, the fonts will be anti-aliased > properly (alternately, you could Merge the layers or flatten the image > in RGB Mode and then convert the result to Indexed Mode). > > It is not ideal that the GIMP assumes the transparency limitation of > the GIF format in its Indexed Mode editing but it is an understandably > low priority problem. Discussions continue on how best (or even > whether) to handle indexed images but it is unlikely that any changes > will occur in the near future. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
