Exporting to GIF

[kayvee]

OK, I get it. when I use Photoshop etc. to make a gif, it allows me to 
use a selective palette: not many colors but the ones I need. 
Omnigraffle just uses a standard palette. That extra step of converting 
it in another program may kill any speed savings for me.


On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 08:46  PM, Brendan Sweeney wrote:

>
> On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 04:44  PM, kayvee wrote:
>
>>  When I export to GIF, all the colors are pixelated and lighter, and 
>> the type is very faint. I am using web-safe colors (but that 
>> shouldn't make a difference anyway.)
>
> That's just a problem with the format, unless you want very large 
> files.  I couldn't find any prefs for .gif quality or pallet size 
> though.  If you're serious about .gifs just export as a pdf, tiff or 
> png and then use a dedicated graphic program to convert it to gif.
>
>> When I exported to JPG, the colors were truer but the background was 
>> black.
>
> The background's only black if you select "transparent background", 
> jpgs don't support an "invisible" color.  Uncheck the transparent 
> option to have a white background.
That makes sense too, although the transparent background choice 
shouldn't apply then when you choose the jpg format.


Thanks Brendan