Anti-aliasing type

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Tommo
Sep 12, 2006
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There seems to be no agreement about anti-aliasing type. Questions to you guys:
1. If I have LARGE type (working at 300 ppi) for viewing on screen that will be flattened, then changed to 72ppi, and saved as part of a jpeg, would you anti-alias (smooth) the type first in the type layers before flattening or leave it with "None" for anti-aliasing?

2. If I have SMALL type (working at 300 ppi) for viewing on screen that will be flattened, then changed to 72ppi, and saved as part of a jpeg, would you anti-alias (smooth) the type first in the type layers before flattening or leave it with "None" for anti-aliasing?

3. For print output, but flattened as part of a Tiff file at resolution 300 ppi, what would you do for large and small type before flattening regarding anti-aliasing?

Thanks.
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Don_McCahill
Sep 13, 2006
Can I ask why you work at 300 ppi initially, and later convert to 72? Seems to me that you will always lose some detail when you convert.

I use anti-aliasing all the time, except with pixel fonts being used in their design size.
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Tommo
Sep 14, 2006
I am thinking of something that may be used for print and web. Also, I thought I noticed a difference for the screen that way, by having it at 300, the flattening, then pixelating, but under a test I just did, I don’t think there is any difference.

If you anti-alias everyrhing, would you do that for print and web (if it is to be a flattened text for a jpeg for the www)?
Have you ever noticed a difference?

Thanks
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Don_McCahill
Sep 14, 2006
Anti-aliasing should not be a concern for print. At a resolution of 300 ppi, the resolution is high enough that it should look smooth. But I would leave it on.

Small text on a jpg will look a little blurry. Fact of life. Usually I live with it. If I can’t, I would get a pixel font.

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