Text logo on layer 1

Robert Lewis schrieb:

I have tried to use the import-bmp.ulp that takes a bit map and places

it on layer 200 and 201 but my results were poo. I could not get a a

black and white (2 bit) color map from the font/screen capture/

conversion. It seems that Windows adds a lot of grey tones to edges to

get the fonts; even though I only used black and white in the text.

 

Does anyone know a better way to create a logo, or even just text, or

to overcome the grey/non black and white pixel problems.

Use an image processing software to reduce the image to 1 bit per pixel

(b/w) before importing.

Tilmann

Thank you for the reply; can you recommend any free software that does

this please? I haven't worked with this type of software.

Robert

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:52:57 +0100, Tilmann Reh

<usenet2007nospam@autometer.de> wrote:

Robert Lewis schrieb:

 

I have tried to use the import-bmp.ulp that takes a bit map and places

it on layer 200 and 201 but my results were poo. I could not get a a

black and white (2 bit) color map from the font/screen capture/

conversion. It seems that Windows adds a lot of grey tones to edges to

get the fonts; even though I only used black and white in the text.

 

Does anyone know a better way to create a logo, or even just text, or

to overcome the grey/non black and white pixel problems.

 

Use an image processing software to reduce the image to 1 bit per pixel

(b/w) before importing.

 

Tilmann

I use GIMP for this.

It is free and works well but also has a lot of other features.

Maybe too many if that is all that you are going to do.

"Robert Lewis" <robert.lewis@iMnMicroControl.com> wrote in message

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Thank you for the reply; can you recommend any free software that does

this please? I haven't worked with this type of software.

 

Robert

 

 

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:52:57 +0100, Tilmann Reh

<usenet2007nospam@autometer.de> wrote:

 

Robert Lewis schrieb:

 

I have tried to use the import-bmp.ulp that takes a bit map and places

it on layer 200 and 201 but my results were poo. I could not get a a

black and white (2 bit) color map from the font/screen capture/

conversion. It seems that Windows adds a lot of grey tones to edges to

get the fonts; even though I only used black and white in the text.

 

Does anyone know a better way to create a logo, or even just text, or

to overcome the grey/non black and white pixel problems.

 

Use an image processing software to reduce the image to 1 bit per pixel

(b/w) before importing.

 

Tilmann

Thank you for the reply; can you recommend any free software that does

this please? I haven't worked with this type of software.

Paint in Windows can save-as black/white bmp. Might be ok.

You do not use the saved file, but need to save it anyway, to make the

conversion.

Robert Lewis schrieb:

Thank you for the reply; can you recommend any free software that does

this please? I haven't worked with this type of software.

As Christen already noted, even Paint can do that.

There are /many/ free software packages for image processing:

examples are Paint.Net, FastStone, IrfanView, GIMP, ...

Pick one that fits your needs and is comfortable. I prefer FastStone,

but for more complicated things I also use two different (commercial)

software packages - you probably heard of Photoshop before (which is one

of them)...

Tilmann

P.S. Please fix your quoting order. Thanks.

I, too, am trying to create a Logo on a board using "import-bmp.ulp",

however I keep getting an error message saying that the BMP has more than

256 gray levels. That's impossible. I used GIMP to posterize it to 1-bit

(black & white). I also tried setting the threshold to 2, and that didn't

work either.

Enough other folks here seem to not have a problem. What could I be doing

wrong?

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Ron

Attach your .bmp and we can have a look to see if there is an issue with it.

Warren

"Ron Anderson" <rona@benchforge.com> wrote in message

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I, too, am trying to create a Logo on a board using "import-bmp.ulp",

however I keep getting an error message saying that the BMP has more than

256 gray levels. That's impossible. I used GIMP to posterize it to 1-bit

(black & white). I also tried setting the threshold to 2, and that didn't

work either.

 

Enough other folks here seem to not have a problem. What could I be doing

wrong?

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I figured it out. Even though I only had 2 colors in MSPaint, unless you

specifically set it to B&W (Image/Attributes/Black & White) , you get some

flag that tells the world it isn't. After doing that, it imported fine!

Thanks for your interest!

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