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Andy Terek
5/26/2004 11:57:56 PM
Hi all,

When I run my movie at 100% jpeg quality, the fonts still dont look very
sharp. Is there a way to get perfect quality on my fonts?

Andy Terek
5/27/2004 4:14:17 AM
Thanks heaps for your help, you have given me more than enough things to try
now, Legend!!!

Rgs
andy

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urami_
5/27/2004 11:10:51 AM

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Flash by default anti alias text .

MX 2004 has the ability to use alias or Antialias typo , the setting is in
Text properties panel. It does not actually turn off the aliasing, it converting
the text to bitmap making it look crispy .


For flash 5 and MX you have the following choices :


You have 5 options to get nice and sharp looking text.

1) Use text filed and do not include font outlines.
It ca be dynamic , not necessarily loaded into level ,
just type your content and set the text box to Dynamic

2) Change the movie quality using Property:
Set Property (High quality) = 0 or 1 or 2
0- horror
1- chunk
2- high

3) Use Device Fonts : _sans , _serif and _typewriter
Macintosh,
_sans = Helvetica
_serif =Times
_typewriter = Courier

Windows,
_sans = Arial
_serif = Times New Roman
_typewriter = Courier New

4) import transparent gif .
these are extremely small and have no big impact on the movie size ,
well unless you import 50 pages in gif than there maybe a little size up
problem .
Here is a sample of a page that uses all gif's for a text :
http://www.rui-camilo.de/main.html
This size uses entire text from imported Gifs.

5) using bitmap fonts
especially design tiny fonts for use in flash or some just bitmap :

http://www.atomicmedia.net/am/fontcart-win.htmlx

http://miniml.com/

http://www.fountain.nu/fonts/tomte/tanzen827/lipo_d.html

http://www.fontsforflash.com/

http://www.atomicmedia.net/am/

http://www.orgdot.com/aliasfonts/

http://www.dafont.com/en/bitmap.php

http://www.core.nu/pixelfonts.html

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Regards


urami_*



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