gifs created from textboxes show up ugly and bold and incorrect

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tekHneEk

I have a newsletter template I made in photoshop, and saved it for web, now
when I draw a text box in Frontpage, and type in it and then save my work the
img001 and well all the gifs, are really bold and hard to read and the
letters are just completely un presentable you can't even read it, how is
this happening? and why?
 
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Andrew Murray

tekHneEk said:
I have a newsletter template I made in photoshop, and saved it for web, now
when I draw a text box in Frontpage, and type in it and then save my work the
img001 and well all the gifs, are really bold and hard to read and the
letters are just completely un presentable you can't even read it, how is
this happening? and why?
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Mark Fitzpatrick

Don't use the FP drawing features to generate gifs. FP is not a graphics
application, though it does offer some of those abilities, they are not up
to the same level as a dedicated graphics app. There are a lot of processing
algorithms that a typical graphics application will have that FP and other
editors lack. GIFs can be tricky to make text look good because they are
very limited in the number of colors they can include, and if the
application isn't good at choosing just the right colors instead of using a
default pallette set, then text can appear blocky because the app can't
anti-alias (feather the colors out smoothly around the edges) the objects.
Go to www.tucows.com and you should find a bunch of inexpensive or even free
applications that could help you make attractive gif images.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
 
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