Small fonts are blurry and hard to read
Issue
Small fonts become blurry and difficult to read in a Macromedia Flash movie.
Reason
By default, text used in text blocks anti-aliases. Anti-aliasing is similar to smoothing. Anti-aliasing makes bitmaps and vector graphics display better, but can make small fonts unreadable.
Solution
One solution is to use a text field instead of a type block. Text used in text fields does not anti-alias by default.
Text fields are normally used for text entry, but can be made non-editable. A text field will display small text much crisper than a type block. Additionally, using text fields to display text will decrease file size, because font outlines are not enclosed in the rendered movie.
This technique is best used with common fonts. It is not recommended for custom fonts. Fonts will not display in a text field on the end user's computer if they are not installed on that machine. If the font outlines for this font aren't included, the font will be substituted on the user's end.
If the use of a custom font is required, the "Enclose Font Outlines" setting must be checked in the Text Field Properties dialog box. However, this will make the text anti-alias.
When using text fields to display small text, there are several other items to consider: Different computers may render fonts in text fields at different sizes. Draw the text field box larger than the required space to allow for differences in rendering font sizes on different computers. Otherwise, it's possible that the text may get cut off.
If the text is meant to be non-editable, make sure to select the Disable Editing and Disable Selection checkboxes in the Text Field Properties dialog box.
Assign each text field a unique variable name. Since these text fields aren't being used for variable assignment, assign each text field a dummy variable name (for example: "null1", "null2", "var1", etc.) If the text fields aren't assigned unique names, all text fields with the same variable name will display the same text in the finished movie.
Note: A Static text field in Macromedia Flash 5 and later is analogous to a "type block" in Macromedia Flash 4 and Dynamic and Input text fields in Macromedia Flash 5 are analogous to non-editable and editable "text fields", respectively, in Macromedia Flash 4.
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Zoals ik dus al zei in m'n eerste post...
dêsh' zei:
Zet je tekstvelden om naar dynamic text