Antialiasing in Flash
kenyabob (303 points) | Wed, 2006-07-19 05:57Okay, here is the site
http://matthewbernardo.com/flash/
If you click on the portfolio section, each page has a small description. My problem is, however, that the text comes up looking really bad, as if the antialiasing worked it over a bit too much. I tried other settings, but antialias for animation was too soft and no aliasing was terrible (I would switch to device fonts, but not everyone has the font I am using). Also the custom anti alias doesnt seem to do anything. How do I get the text to be crisp, but not burnt?
Thanks in advance.
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Hi Matthew,
I guess that is your name due to the website name?
Are you placing the font on a whole pixel unit. Most fonts when that small need to be placed on whole pixel units to work correctly at that size when within Flash. So if you place it at say x = 500 px and y = 50 px then there should (hopefully!!) be no problems.
Also another thing that most people never ever realise is that if you force your flash file to go into low quality mode then switch immediately to high quality mode when loading then images will look a lot better also.
Hope this helps.
Best wishes,
Mark
the problem is that inspite the fact that you build
the site in flash8, you exported and published the project for flash6. [as i see in the source]
flash6 does not support funky antialiasing so basically you're stuck
with the old font rendering engine.
generally it is better to put the text at an integer coordinate.
so make sure you dont have something like x:23.5 y:45.8
if you have a movie inside a movie, the rule applies recursive.
every movie that contains text should be placed at an integer coordinate.
but in your case the problem is flash6.
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How would that be?
I created the swfs in flash and also exported them in Flash 8.
How is it coming out in six?
sorry for the delayed response
you can find the swf export settings at
File > Publish settings > the "Flash" tab > first drop-down list
i see now that the flash is published in 7.
anyway, the text looks better.
and also im glad you chose the new DIV publishing method instead
of the EMBED tag.
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