un anti-alias text?!?

[pkny]

is there a way to un anti-alias text written in flash??

btw what does the "kern" function in the text tool bar??

[red penguin]

moock states that "Device fonts are never antialiased."

"To prevent a font from antialiasing, use device fonts(i.e. system fonts) by unselecting all Embed Fonts options".

Kerning, I believe, has to do with the space between the words...

Hope this helps...but I have the feeling you are looking to use a non system font...

[Jesse]

note that if you use device fonts you rely on the end user having that font installed on their system so you have to stick with standard fonts like Arial and Verdana.

[random_goblin]

Kerning is to do with the space between letters, specifically it is the adding or subtracting of space between letter pairs in order to improve readability, (as opposed to Tracking which is the process of creating an equal amount of space across a range of letters). For example , LA, To, Wo, are all pairs that can benefit from kerning in some fonts (hard to see in courier I know). A well made font includes Kerning information about these common pairs. Checking the Kern Box enables flash to use the kerning information provided by the font designer (IF it is included in the font design, some freeware fonts don't include this info), making your text more visually pleasing.


End of Lecture :)

[red penguin]

thanks for the kerning info...wished i had taken some typography...

[daarboven]

Okay,heres an overview for all ways to employ un-antaliased text in flash (vers.5)

1.static text: has an option register "use device font"
(best with all standard fonts as mentioned erlier in this thread...)
2.dynamic text: choosing no embedding of fonts will make the swf to use a device font, see above

and finally for all you minifont freaks heres a workaround to use whatever font you like without antialiasing:
(requires photoshop)
in photoshop 6 create a new text choosing no antialiasing, set the background to transparent. choose "save for web" and export your image as png24 with transparancy checked.
import your file to flash and there you have your png with all transparancy information included, this allows for pictures either.
for photoshop 5 or lower you have to create an alphachannel of your transparancy and save a copy as png.

means: flash is able to read the first alphachannel of png-images, the only limitation is that these images look ugly when displayed other than 100% zoom, so dont scale the image or set your movie to another scaling factor (fullscreen or similar).
hope this helped
daarboven

[red penguin]

thanks for the info!!