Need High Def Text
Hi, I am using Gimp 2.8 to design an A1 poster. The poster contains
text and while it looks OK in 100% or 200%, the moment I go to 400% it
all gets pixelated. I have read some info and checked that the text
tool is set to Hinting - Full and Antialiasing is ticked.
How can I solve this problem ?
Thanks
Your "A1" poster is tiny. A1 size is 594 mm x 841 mm and your image size in pixels is 592 x 561 pix so I conclude that, apart from the aspect ratio, you have pixels and mm mixed up. Printing that on A1 papergives a resolution of pixels per inch (ppi)
For a poster that will be viewed at a distance you do not need phot-grapic quality 300 ppi but you do need better than 25 ppi, say 150 ppi.
Make a new canvas, Image -> New, in the advanced section set the horizontal/vertical resolution, set the size in mm. After that work in pixels, Gimp is a raster editor, works with pixels.
Then there is the outlining: guessing you did some sort of selection and used that, leaving semi-transparent pixels between the white text and the magenta outline.
A better way once you have a text layer is Text to path -> Stroke the path. Apply that to a layer under the text for best results.
example attached.