Re: FLASH: Flash 4: Best way to display small text without antialiasing

[John Croteau]

Hi Orson,


> I just started using Flash, and perhaps I'm asking for something that it

> doesn't do.... I want my large text to be antialiased, but I want small

> text (10 points or less) to appear without antialiasing because that point

> size becomes blurry when antialiased.

> So far the only solution I've found is screen capturing the small text and

> then importing it as a bitmap. (Of course this only works if I keep to the

> original movie size when publishing, which is fine.)

With Flash 4 you can used the new Font designation fonts _sans, _serif

and _typewriter for small text as long as you also use fixed size height

and width and not percents. If size of text falls below about 10 pixels

then the text will become scrambled and not just blurry. 11 or 12 is

probably a safer number.


When using percents you are less sure of what the minimum size of the

text will be so you need to calculate the final size of fonts based on

your canvas size and the minimum screen resolution users will use.


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