How do I get text to look good!!!

[luis decastro]

I've tried anti-aliasing and such but it never looks as good as the text from a Word document when printed. What am I missing?

[Mathias Vejerslev]

Maybe you need to raise the resolution? Check Image>Image Size. Resolution should be around 300 ppi to produce crisp text in a print.

[luis decastro]

Is there any way to have text treated as a vector? If so, would that help?

[Mathias Vejerslev]

Text is vector. But you´d need a postscript printer to take advantage of that.

[Cheesefood]

Text is vector. But you´d need a postscript printer to take advantage
of that.




Not in PS.

[Colin Walls]

Cheese:

If I understand right, if you have a postscript printer and output from PS, vectored stuff [like text] stays vectored. If you have a "regular" printer, it gets rastered.

In any case, from experience of reading stuff on this forum, I'll believe what Mathias says ...

[Mac McDougald]

> Text is vector. But you´d need a postscript printer to take advantage

> of that.

> Not in PS.

In Photoshop, yes.

Make a big doc at 25 or 50 ppi, like 8 inches tall or more.
Put a big font on it and print on non postscript printer.
Yuk.
If it were vector outpuit to any printer, the ppi wouldn't have any
effect one way or the other, would be smooth.

Mac