Re: FLASH: Can Antialiasing be turned off for the movie file?

[Matt Wobensmith]

Tom Wolfe wrote:

>I looked in the Manual and it seems to me that antialiased text can be

>turned off just to work quicker within Flash. I hope I'm wrong and that

>there is a way to turn off antialiasing when you publish a page. Can someone

>please enlighten me...




Hi Tom -


There are a few ways to disable antialiasing in the movie. You also mentioned turning off antialiasing in the Flash 4 editor, which is different.


In the editor, you can set the View menu to "Fast", which will improve playback speed, in the editor only. 


In the SWF, you will probably want smaller text to be more readable, and therefore, not smoothed. The best way to do this is to use text *fields* (not type blocks) for this text, and make sure you modify the text field properties to a) get rid of white background, b) disable editing and c) disable selection. Text used in a text field does not antialias.


We have a great TechNote about fonts and text in general, which includes this info:


http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/antialiasing_fonts.htm


You can also turn off antialiasing in the SWF by setting the _highquality property to zero (low quality). An action for that would look like this;


Set Property (High quality) = "0"


However, this will make your whole movie look pretty bad. I would not recommend it for text - for that, use the method above.


>Merci,

>Tom


De rien!


-Matt



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Matt Wobensmith

Macromedia Tech Support

Flash Team Lead


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