Re: gFont, ttfont alternatives with good anti-aliasing (Gimp anyone)?

[Denis Barbier <nospam@thanx>]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 02:19:20PM +0100, Stephan Petersen wrote:
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> I tried using gFont and ttfont to render some text into GIFs/PNGs,
> but I found that anti-aliasing is not really done, or not 
> working too well (unless I'm missing something).
> 
> Has anybody tried other ways to render nice text as bitmaps 
> through wml?
> 
> Maybe using the Perl interface to the Gimp toolkit?
> 
> I'm grateful for any tipps! For instance, it would be interesting
> to know how the headlines in the wml docs were created, like
> http://www.engelschall.com/sw/wml/com/navbar/headline-docs.gif
> 
> Thanks in advance,

Hi Stephan, sorry for the delay, mailserver seems having some problems.

* AFAICT Ralf produced WML buttons with Photoshop.

* About True Type fonts, Remco van den Berg made such a tool
     http://www.dse.nl/rvdberg/software/webbutton/
  but maybe this is what you call ttfont?

* Using Perl interface to Gimp seems a rather good idea. I think Debian
  website buttons are made this way.

-- 
Denis Barbier
WML Maintainer
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