Quality of generated image

I am creating .gif files using the ACME api and the standard Java 1.41 api. The purpose is to generate images containing text to publish on a website.
This all works fine, but when I create images with fontsize 12 or lower, the quality becomes quite bad compared to the same images created in Photoshop.
Is there a library/API/commercial pack/other wich enables me to create better graphics and font-filters ?
Thanks!

Are you using anti-aliasing when creating the original image? If not, the text quality will definitely suffer at small sizes. Keep in mind, however, that anti-aliasing creates more colors and may not work with ACME's 256 color limit.

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