[Gimp-user] Exporting high-quality PNG w/transparency?

[Keith Purtell <kpurtell imirus com>]

Several times a week I need to take a PDF (single-page doc), then convert to a page-sized PNG with quality good enough to read the text (and a transparent border), and then convert to a SWF. I have a PNG-to-SWF utility, but when I used it on the PNG saved after I opened my PDF and exported from GIMP, the end result was not good enough. A co-worker said GIMP couldn't make a PNG (w/transparency) with enough quality. He said we'd have to use some other software. Part of the issue was not being able to resize without losing quality before the PNG export. True or false?

Keith