How to change the color of an anti aliased text with gimp

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I am stuck changing the color of a text on a gif. Because the text
is anti aliased I cannot use the bucket tool. How would I do that.

It seems to me that there should be something into which I can enter the
source color and the destination color and that "something" would then
interpolate the colors for me.

If this is not possible with gimp, I'd take any suggestion on how to do it with
another tool.

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Here is an old tutorial http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Changing_Background_Color_1/. Color to Alpha can be found in the Color menu.

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