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Originally Posted by MikeWV
I can read it in ADE but it doesn't look "polished." The large font looks OK but the smaller font is pretty broken up, and it actually looks worse at 300 ppi than it does at 222 ppi. I tried Nook PC, too. It looks worse at both resolutions in Nook PC than ADE.
When I look at the examples on the how-to pages, the text always looks good. But although those sites tell you how to do a cover, none of them say how they got the text to look good.
Maybe I need to go to a resolution way above 300 ppi.
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Mike:
One possible aspect: if you are making your "image" of text as an image of something else--a spreadsheet, and the text you're talking about is in the spreadsheet, there's really nothing you can do. In the trade, when text is placed atop an image, it's anti-aliased, to prevent the "ragged" edge you're seeing. For a quickie on anti-aliasing, see the articles in Wikipedia, and then you can work your way out to more professional articles on the topic.
This is particularly noticeable on bright, primary-colored texts against high-contrast backgrounds, like red on black. So, again: you can't anti-alias the text, if it's IN the spreadsheet that you originally used to create the image. That's doomed.
What a pro would do is to remake the "spreadsheet" using something else--Illustrator, whatever, and recreate it in a way so that the text was anti-aliased. If that helps.
By the way, even though you didn't ask for this type of input: avoid lots of text on book covers, print or otherwise, but especially on ebooks. It's a sales-killer. The secret to a great book cover is simplicity: ONE single, strong graphic element, with very limited text.
You are correct that SVG cannot be used dependably.
Best of luck.
Hitch