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Text looks rough RSA 26 Jan 15:35
  Text looks rough John Mills 26 Jan 15:54
   Text looks rough RSA 26 Jan 16:02
  201001261907.46993.daniel.h... Daniel Hornung 26 Jan 19:07
   Text looks rough bigskypa@gmail.com 26 Jan 19:22
RSA
2010-01-26 15:35:45 UTC (almost 15 years ago)

Text looks rough

When I make a web banner that is only text it looks great in GIMP and in my web page maker.

When I put it up on the web the text looks "rough" like someone cut it out with a jig saw.

I use the banner in JPG format or GIF format and the results are the same.

Any ideas how to fix it?

John Mills
2010-01-26 15:54:23 UTC (almost 15 years ago)

Text looks rough

RSA -

On esuggestion:
Be sure you create the banner and its text at a high enough image resolution. It may be rendered as fuzzy or jagged if the text's bit-image is enlarged substantially for printing or viewing (in contrast to vector-based graphics). I had this problem when I started out.

- John Mills

On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, RSA wrote:

When I make a web banner that is only text it looks great in GIMP and in my web page maker.

When I put it up on the web the text looks "rough" like someone cut it out with a jig saw.

I use the banner in JPG format or GIF format and the results are the same.

Any ideas how to fix it?

RSA
2010-01-26 16:02:50 UTC (almost 15 years ago)

Text looks rough

Thanks. I thought there was some relationship between px size and final result but figured I was doing something wrong.

On 10-01-26 09:54 AM, John Mills wrote:

RSA -

On esuggestion:
Be sure you create the banner and its text at a high enough image resolution. It may be rendered as fuzzy or jagged if the text's bit-image is enlarged substantially for printing or viewing (in contrast to vector-based graphics). I had this problem when I started out.

- John Mills

On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, RSA wrote:

When I make a web banner that is only text it looks great in GIMP and in my web page maker.

When I put it up on the web the text looks "rough" like someone cut it out with a jig saw.

I use the banner in JPG format or GIF format and the results are the same.

Any ideas how to fix it?

bigskypa@gmail.com
2010-01-26 19:22:06 UTC (almost 15 years ago)

Text looks rough

On 01/26/2010 01:07 PM, Daniel Hornung wrote:

On Tuesday 26 January 2010 15:35:45 RSA wrote:

When I make a web banner that is only text it looks great in GIMP and in my web page maker.

When I put it up on the web the text looks "rough" like someone cut it out with a jig saw.

I use the banner in JPG format or GIF format and the results are the same.

Does this really also happen when you have a file that's never been saved to gif, i.e. has never been downgraded to 256 colors?

Yes. It happens in both JPG and GIF.

What I do to solve the problem is make the PX count large using GIMP and then shrink it down on my webpage maker and it works out nicely. Translated- it shouldn't have to be this way.

Daniel