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    Problems with blur text

    Hello!
    I am having problems with my text. It looks a little blur, I can not find the way of sharping it...

    Here is my site...
    www.parpignolarts.com

    I will apreciate a lot your help... this is driving me crazy!!

    Thanks
    Teresa

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    Well the text looks blured cause flash uses antialiasing. The simplest way of not having your text blured is to change the anti-aliasing options in the text properties (if you have flash 8).

    In previous versions of flash, i dont recall having this option and the only way to get an aliased text was to change it to "dynamic text" and make sure you did not embed any chars.

    However, the aliased text looks preety nasty, so i would stick with the anti-aliased one.

    The best solution in my opinion is to use pixel or super-pixel fonts, which are fonts designed for flash.
    To get you started with those go to
    http://www.fontsforflash.com

    They have some free fonts for download which are really cool. I personally bought one and am very pleased with it (i bought FFF Protege)
    Also, make sure you read the guidlines on how to use them, because if used incorectly, they will look even worse.

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    Thank you so much for your help. I will try with your advices...

    Teresa

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    also make sure ur textfields are on exact integer cordinates...
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    Quote Originally Posted by silentweed
    also make sure ur textfields are on exact integer cordinates...
    I am pretty new with flash... I am not able to do it!! it still look blur!! What do you exactly mean with integer cordinates? I give the text a number, like 10, and is not crispy...

    Thanks
    T

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    Quote Originally Posted by tere.iniesta
    I am pretty new with flash... I am not able to do it!! it still look blur!! What do you exactly mean with integer cordinates? I give the text a number, like 10, and is not crispy...

    Thanks
    T
    And also I am not able to create a text box with a scroll bar... how can I do it?
    Thanks
    T

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    Originally Posted by silentweed
    also make sure ur textfields are on exact integer cordinates...
    Silentweed refers to the pixel fonts, which need to be placed on stage on integer coordinates. This means write your text on stage, select it with the Select tool and goto move it to something like x:100, y:100 (not x:100.4 and y:100.9)

    The info window in which you can set the coordinates is found under WINDOW - INFO.

    Also, you have to use Left justification for the text and also make sure the font size is 8 or multiples of 8 (16, 24, 32 etc)

    Last, goto fontsforflash.com and make sure you read USERGUIDE.
    It explains very well how the pixel fonts should and shouldn't be used.

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    EDIT We posted at the same time. Olias answered it.

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    Thank you so much...
    does any of you know how to create a box with a scroll down bar, to put text on it?

    Thanks
    T

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    Quote Originally Posted by tere.iniesta
    Thank you so much...
    does any of you know how to create a box with a scroll down bar, to put text on it?

    Thanks
    T
    make a text field give it an instance name, make it dynamic, rightclick on it and click "scrollable".

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