Quote Originally Posted by dazappa
I basically used GIMP to create a PNG image with an anti aliased font (as I know the font won't be available on every system, and didn't want to waste my time with a font lib + including the font for the menu text). Using SDL_SetAlpha, and SDL_DisplayFormat causes that alpha channel on the PNG image to be lost, and a black background is inserted, so I'd also have to key that out, but there goes my beautiful font anyway.
That sounds odd, as far as I remember I got that working in a few of my games and I'm also using GIMP to create or edit my images.
I will try to create an example if I find the time.