Re: There IS a way... (un-antialiased Text)

[John Croteau]

Hi David, Anna, Corrina, et al,


> (Hell, John Croteau didn't even know about it!).


I do know about DeviceFont, much more than I wanted to know so I'll bore

you with the details. The chance that DeviceFont will be useful to you

is very slim in my opinion. The fact that it is limited to Win 95/98/NT

or that sometimes it does funny things when quality is changed, is not

the worse part. Take a look, assuming you have Win 95/98/NT and the New

Times Roman font installed, and see the difference. Both displays use

the same swf file, the top has DeviceFont=True. It's not that they

aren't different but on most screens I find that the non-anti-aliased

version is worse at virtually every size. With DeviceFont=False the

default and Quality=High, the text in Flash has a consistent look but it

is soft and hard to read at small sizes due to its the anti-aliasing

that Flash uses. With DeviceFont=True text is not anti-aliased and is

not consistent from computer to computer. How bold and italics is

applied is also very inconsistent.


In any case if all of these 4 conditions apply:

1) Use only small text in a font that the user is likely to have on his

computer,

2) Use no large fonts that the user is likely to have,

3) Users are using Windows 95/98/NT or you want a special case for those

Windows users

4) Use a font that actually looks good not anti-aliased at the size you

are using in Flash (for most computers),


then yes you should use Devicefont="true". 



> Within the <object> parameters...

> <parameter name="devicefont" value="true">

> Within the <embed> parameters...

> <embed...     ...devicefont=true...> (without the ...'s)


> If devicefont=true, the Flash player will actually look on the end

> user's (your page viewer's) system to see if they have the font that you

> used in your Flash movie. If that font IS present in their system, the

> Flash player will actually use that font from their system, rather than

> the embeded font outlines withinin the .swf file. And the result is that

> the text does NOT get antialiased within the movie.

> 

> Remember, this will be true of ALL INSTANCES of THAT PARTICULAR FONT

> throughout your movie. It is a GLOBAL parameter that effects the entire

> movie, not just certain frames/scenes. And if your end user has other

> fonts that you used in your movie, those too will be UN-ANTIALIASED if

> devicefont=true. These are important things to consider as a designer.


> >Is there a way to export a movie with out anti-aliasing the text

> >(small text can look real fuzzy sometimes - unless you zoom in)? I

> >know you can set the plugin or control to low but the text looks

> >terrible when you do this.


 

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