In very deep, please help (fonts and scripting).

[bweylock]

Hi. I just found this place, and I'm hoping some kind soul or souls will be able to bail me out of a situation I've put myself in by trying to do my own site in Flash.

First, I need help to make an effect happen right. I know it's going to take a bit of scripting, but it's just completely beyond me.

Second, I've only in the past few hours discovered that all of my text is fuzzy. This particularly bad since everything is done in text, including all the buttons. I was working at 1600x1200 and just happened to check at 1024x768. It looks awful.

Apparently I should have had "snap to pixels" turned on? That's what someone suggested on the MacroMedia newsgroups. Do I have to start over now?

The problem is compounded because all of the text is inside movie-clips that themselves are not on exact pixel positions. I've just tried editing one button. I got the text on all of the button states lined up on the same x and y points, but then the enclosing clip refused to align to a y point - keeps reverting to a .1 measure.

Oh. Another bright idea I had was to try to change the registration of all the clips to upper left rather than center. Not sure it had any real effect or if it did damage.

At this point (hoping I don't transgress forum etiquette) I would be willing to pay for a consult on the site. It has to get finished, and I'm flailing around.

Thanks for anything!

You can view the patient at http://www.weylock.com/newhomeflashnew.html.

The fla is too big to attach.


Best,

- Bill

[fgf]

looks fine to me. at 1024 and 1156

You do have to put rectangles in the hitstates on your buttons though. (so you can't miss the button by clicking in the middle of an 'O' for example)

flash anti aliases stuff it looks a little different to pixelated fonts but generally better unless you have html fonts on same page (i'm doing a project where we have to do this and the clients aren't complaining)

You haven't had the quality setting on low or anything?

fgf

[bweylock]

Thanks very much.

I'm told I can probably get better quality if I replace all of the text with raterized gifs in Photoshop. I can't take that time, so I will have to learn to like this resolution until it's fixable. Apparenly moving to exact pixel locations is not going to help very much if any.

Please tell me about any button that did not seem to have a good working HIT state plate behind it. They all certainly should.

And thanks again!

[fgf]

don't worry about buttons checked again and it just the sections you haven't filled in yet.

Still not sure why the text is bugging you so much though.

fgf

[bweylock]

Thanks. It turns out that the text looks much worse on a Mac, which is what I use.

I guess the 72dpi vs 96dpi really makes a difference at these sizes... That's all i can think... Good news is that i don't think any of my clients have Macs.

Thanks again.