[TYPO3-dev] Gifbuilder image quality problem

[Rutger Meekers]

Indeed it is!

Thank you, quality is much better now.

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Van: typo3-dev-bounces at lists.netfielders.de
[mailto:typo3-dev-bounces at lists.netfielders.de] Namens Christopher
Verzonden: woensdag 22 februari 2006 18:16
Aan: List for Core-/Extension development
Onderwerp: Re: [TYPO3-dev] Gifbuilder image quality problem

On 2/22/06, JoH <info at cybercraft.de> wrote:

<snip>

> You have different options here.
> 1. For T3 version lower than 4.x use the "KB all colors" extension which
> enables GIFBUILDER to render images with 24bit colors instead of 256 if
you
> have gdlib2 available. (Will be implemented in T3 versions 4.x+)
> 2. Change the gdlib settings in your install tool to png instead of gif
> 3. Never use JPG or GIF as source files for the GIFBUILDER - they always
> contain artefacts that will be multiplied by the rendering process - use
> uncompressed TIF or maybe even AI files instead.
> 4. Render the images twice the size of the original output size and then
use
> the SCALE function in GIFBUILDER as the last object in the list to scale
> them down to the desired size. (Will render fonts with aliasing even
without
> niceText enabled as a side effect)

<snip>

This is such excellent advice that I've added it to the wiki:
http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/GIFBUILDER_QUALITY

-Christopher
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