I am building a number of fgpanels for a cockpit implementation. I have been quite successful at rotating instruments 90 degrees for vertical panels, adding needles to some of the instruments that aren't implemented fully. I even created an analog clock with fully functioning hour, minute and second hands. So far so good. The workflow for instrument graphics is basically to create the instrument in Inkscape. Then save it as .png. Open the png file in GIMP and export as rgb. This all works great. However, in a lot of cases, the graphics, especially text aren't very crisp. I am focusing on text, trying to get it smooth and crisp. Are there some guidelines how to get the best text images in fgpanel. I've tried including the text in the clock svg. I've tried making the text a separate svg file and experimenting with various fonts, spacing, image sizes and doing the scaling in the fgpanel clock xml file. But when the image is positioned and displayed in the clock, the text doesn't look smooth, sometimes letters are gone or parts of the letters are missing. If I display a large text image at a large size, it looks ok. But when I start to scale it to the size I need for the panel, it loses clarity and crispness. I've tried antialiasing on and off, it doesn't seem to make a difference. Any suggesting are greatly appreciated! This is the clock (rotated 90 degrees for a vertical panel) with a separate Electric text image layer and you can see that it doesn't look crisp:

The clock numbers are part of the clock svg file, and they don't look too bad, but they could even use some improvement.
Thanks in advance.