Re: designing printable graphics

Sorry, I was a little unclear - the maps are b/w but the GIFS are all
greyscale...

----- Original Message -----
From: Rasika Wijayaratne <rwijayaratne(at)yahoo.com.au>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2000 7:20 AM
Subject: Re: designing printable graphics


> The problem is that you are working with 1 bit
> pictures which rules out the possibility of having
> anti-aliasing (AA).  To have sharp text you need AA.
> So you need to be working in greyscale mode rather
> than 1-bit/line drawign mode.  Greyscale still offers
> good compression levels with GIFS.
>
> --- Stuart McDonald <stuart(at)fourelephants.com> wrote:
> > The maps are all b/w line drawings, so I
> > automatically thought that GIF was
> > the way to go, however the problem I am having is
> > that the text is breaking
> > up and becoming quite blurry. The maps are generally
> > a4 in size and are
> > often extremely detailed with street names, icons,
> > legend etc etc.
>
>
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