Re: Fonts look all wrong, not smooth

Clif,

>> From: Clifton Rogers <clifatwork-/[email protected]>
>> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:26:02 -0800 (PST)

>> I'm trying to make an image with text but the
>> fonts look all "chunky", they aren't smooth.
>> I have GIMP running on another windows pc and it
>> works fine there.  Is there some setting that
>> I've missed

Yes, probably. Make sure you have the checkbox for
"Antialiasing" checked in the Text tool's options
box.

Another thing that sometimes helps is to render your
text really large, then use
<image>Layer=>Scale Layer
in cubic mode to shrink it to the size you need.

xanthian.



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