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    Posted: 28 November 2003 at 7:49am

Hi, I'm a tech knownothing who has somehow ended up with the job of making changes to a website. I'm having to learn how to do it as I go along.

One thing I'm struggling with at the moment is - how do I find out the format of some text that is in a GIF file? I need to know the format of some text that is in there so I can replicate it on other parts of the site. But once you've created text in a GIF, it becomes a graphic and you can't find out the format (font, size, colour etc.) afterwards. Can anyone help me out?

Apologies for asking what is probably a very dumb question.

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Hi there, and welcome.

That is not a dumb question, and unfortunately there is no easy way to find out the font of the text in a graphic. What you would need to do is to just go to a font website and try to find a similar one.

You can try http://www.1001freefonts.com/, http://www.abstractfonts.com/fonts/, http://www.fontfreak.com/index2.htm (there's a bunch more, just search on Google)

Hope this helps.
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Many thanks for your answer KC, very kind of you.

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Hi lemoncurry - I'm a tech-knowsomething, and KC is right. You can't find our from a GIF file. The best thing you can do is try to find a similar font.

If you know anything about Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop, you can open the GIF, convert the image to RGB, then create a new layer and begin experimenting with fonts.

However, if you are dealing with a file from a professional designer, it is likely that you cannot find the same font for free. (Good fonts cost money.) You will probably have to settle for something similar.

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you could always try asking the original designer
Paul A Morgan

http://www.pmorganphoto.com/
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.. but he won't give it. Come on, do you really think someone would give away his 300$ font? No way! At least, I woudn't do that
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$300 for a font?!? I have never had a situation where i couldn't find a copyright-free font for free on the internet that would suit my needs.
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 No I was just 'exampling' in which situation you'll put a web master in.
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