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From: "Tilman Brandl" <>
Subject: Re: [FP-ADVAN] How do you disguise email addresses?
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 12:23:28 +0200
References: <42A8D0BF.9030905@alphalink.com.au>


Ken,

thanks for the clarification. I forgot about the *.jpg transparency
issue. Otherwise for my purposes (email address) the pic is just fine,
no problems with reading.

Tilman

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken McInnes" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 1:29 AM
Subject: Re: [FP-ADVAN] How do you disguise email addresses?


> Tilman wrote:
>
> > Then I used the add text function with a character set and size of
my
> > choice, and made it show a transparent background. Guess this didn't
> > work well with the compression process afterwards, anyway, there's a
> > grainy background . I cropped the new pic closely around the
> > address-text and saved it as tif (and also jpg).
>
> .jpg doesn't support transparency. The 'grainy background' is jpg's
compression algorithm which is great for photos, but 'blurs' the edges
of lines and letters in simple graphics.
>
> Try saving the image with the transparent background as .gif or .png -
these formats work better than .jpg for simple graphic images, and
support transparency.
>
> The size of the .gif image (in Kb) can also be reduced by 'reducing
the number of colors' before you save it. If you only have say two
colors (background and foreground) then you can reduce the pallet to two
colors.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> regards
>
> Ken McInnes

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