annoying problem.

[jgsport]

I'm trying to animate text using actionscript. I created some text and made it into a movie clip, added some actions to it and its fine. Then I created some more text and then made it into a movie clip and copied and pasted the same actions to it. The text on the second movie clip is blurry. really, noticibly blurry. How do I fix this??? Is this a glitch or something? any help would be appreciated.

[annexion]

Flash tends to antialias fonts for you, you can get rid of this by selecting the properties panel for a textbox and clicking, "Use Device Fonts". This only works if it is a standard font such as Times or Arial, otherwise, other people may not have the same font you do and it will use a substitute.

Good luck.

[jgsport]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but, flash being a plug-in uses whatever font you create in your movie.

The fonts that are installed on the users machine have no bearing on the fonts used in the movies?!?!

[Mortimer Jazz]

Yes, if you embed font-outlines for a particular font then it will be compiled into the final swf.

It does seem a little strange that it works for one and not the other. Can you provide a downloadable example? It is difficult to say why without seeing one.