Text doesn't diplay correctly

[aUDaX]

Hi all.

I've already browsed all tutorials here, even the ones linked by CyanBlue, but nothing comes to help me.

Neither the tutorial in the tutorial section about how to display a text inside a movie clip, actually it doesn't display anything so i dunno why it is present.

I'm using a pixel font, and it displays blurry.

I've followed ALL steps in the macromedia tutorials (indexed by CyanBlue in his 5000th post threads) about blurry fonts, and created a text-box with the font already imported as library and leaving the *.swf in the same directory.

It always DISPLAYS BLURRY.

T__T

I am sure that the font dimension is right, have checked it in photoshop.

Attached *.fla hope someone will help soon.

[aUDaX]

Ok i made it work, but the tutorials sucked really hard this time.

[CyanBlue]

Howdy... ;)

Glad you got it working... :)

I have a suggestion... Why not post what you have found out to solve that problem so that other people won't get annoyed by the sucky tutorials like you did??? What do you say??? ;)

[aUDaX]

Oh sorry CyanBlue :( U call me to my duty, u're right.

Ok, as the tutorial found i don't remember where says, it suggests u to place the dynamic text field at exact position, like x=24.0 & y=34.0 with NO DECIMALS.

Also, make sure that ur pixel font is of the size for what has been designed (some have its size at 9 and multiples, others have 8pt and multiples).

The last thing it's because, working on my portfolio, i noticed that 18 out of 20 of my pixel fonts really sucked and were INCREDIBLY Blurry.

Also, about the position: be sure that if u insert that inside an FsScrollpane for example, and then u place the scrollpane on the main timeline, be sure that the position of the scrollpane hasn't decimals. So, like before, make sure that pos is x=20.0 and y=34.0, not X=20.7 and y=34.2

If ur font is still blurry, it's because it sucks.

Good fonts are the FFF Harmony and the 4b_11.

Avoid using device fonts because they can't be masked, even if your verdana would look somehow good there T__T

[CyanBlue]

Thank you for the good explanation... ;)

I am sure that you just saved 100 guys' time at least... :D

[subquark]

Also be sure that any input, dynamic and/or static text boxes are set to 100% in the transform (CTRL + T) panel as are any movie clips that the text might reside in.

Great tip about FFF Harmony, and FFF Business is pretty nice too.

Of course, MX2004 vs. Mothra has the ability to alias any font which is pretty nice.

[Boleyball]

But what can you do say if you are using Verdana with Alias Text turned off on a button and all text is perfectly aligned but it still blurs?

[loverofpostin]

thank you aUDaX,

I was having the same problem. Glad you posted how to fix it.