[ale] GIMP text question

[Dow Hurst]

That is the right way to do it.  You have to have the image large enough to 
print aliased.  Your screen is at 75dpi while the printer prints at 600dpi. 
So your image that is small enough to fit in your screen will be tiny on the 
page.  The software can "blowup" the image to fit the page size creating fuzzy 
edges, or you can make the image large enough that it fits on the page at 
600dpi.  So a 75dpi rendition of your image will be the size of your wall!  An 
uncompressed TIFF image that is at 600dpi for a printsize of 7.5"x3.0" is 
100Mb.  Manipulating the image at the monitor's 75dpi resolution is a pain. 
But, the final print is gorgeous(I use PNG when possible).  I've had to get 
involved with preparing images for print in journals for the research papers 
we've submitted.  Each journal requires a particular process and format for 
what is submitted, so I've had to find out some of this stuff.  I'd like to 
know a better way than what I am doing currently.  What I need is a 
combination of VMD, Sodipodi, and OOo Draw, and Gimp.  Sometime I'll post some 
specific questions about this.
Dow


Chris Fowler wrote:
> I set up the print size in gimp so that the program will know what size
> is going to be printed.  I then use the text tool.  I get crisp text.
> 
> On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 16:27, John Mills wrote:
> 
>>ALErs -
>>
>>I use GIMP to set up web-page graphics and for some image manipulation,
>>but I have never figured out how to get clean, sharp text when I print a
>>GIMP image out. The text always has a lot of 'bleeding' into the
>>surrounding image area. Basically I just used the GIMP text tool and type
>>in my text, and get fuzzy-edged characters when I print the image. (If
>>necessary I can post a couple of samples on my web space.) The effect is
>>probably present with screen images, but I have never been able to see it.
>>
>>I've been told that the text must be rendered into the image at
>>essentially the resolution with which it will be printed, and the problem
>>won't appear. I have not managed to do this.
>>
>>I don't have the problem with [say] Corel Photo-Paint in MsWin. (I haven't
>>actually tried this on GIMP in MsWin to check if this is a Linux problem.)
>>
>>Has anyone fought this through? It would be nice to eliminate one more 
>>thing I have to boot MsWin to do. (There wouldn't be many left!)
>>
>>TIA.
>>
>> - John Mills
>>   1884 Ridgewood Dr, NE
>>   Atlanta, GA 30307-1166
>>   404.377.2577
>>   john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu
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