On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 04:00:42PM -0400, Nick Cummings wrote: > It's a valid suggestion, but I think there are a two issues. First, would > this just convert completely white pixels to transparent? If so, I think > it would suffer the same problem as the other methods: The slightly gray > background pixels at the edges of the text created by anti-aliasing > remains completely opaque and shows up as white flecks around the text.
Recent versions of the GIMP (since the start of 2.2, if not earlier) do it by balance - that is, exactly the way you are seeking. > The second issue is that I need to do this to a bunch of images, so the > preference would be to have some command line (or scriptable) approach. I > don't know if you can (easily) do that with the Gimp. GIMP is scriptable if you know Scheme or LISP. Otherwise, yeah, it's not that scriptable. Ben -- Ben Stern UNIX & Networks Monkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] This post does not represent FTI, even if I claim it does. Neener neener. UM Linux Users' Group Electromagnetic Networks Microbrew Software
