Text blurry despite doing all the right things

[unihead]

Hope someone can help with this - I have a Dynamic text area that's about 470px x 180px. I'm using a bitmap font, and the area is sitting on the whole pixel.

The right side of the text block is going a bit blury though, and I can't for the life of me work out why? Can anyone help? Thanks.
Peter

[studioqtopia]

cauz i don't have the file i'll probably cover stuff that u'v already done or tried. with that said...
1. are u sure that the textfield was not scaled or streched with the transform tool.
2. (mx only)have u turned on the View>Snap to Pixels feature? with this feature turned on u can zoom in on the text to view the grid that the font sould fit exactly in for it to be crisp.
3. are u sure that the font will fit with in the pixel grid. meaning not all pixel fonts have the correct spacing and will fall off the grid if the textfield is large (i.e. the line spacing or charater spacing will start falling outside the grid).
4. are u sure that the font size is correct for being able to fit in the grid?
5. did u open the info pallet and change the black dot on the bounding box to the upper left. the upper left corner is the one that should be set to whole numbers.
6. i found that even using whole numbers, some fonts (like a few from fontsforflash.com) don't exactly line up on the grid so u have to tweek the x or y a decimal point over to make it work right.

hope one of these tips will help and sorry for covering stuff u probably already know.

also, here's a list of font that i've tested that work. note that i haven't tested all of them with long strings of text.
http://www.studioqtopia.com/flash/sm...ias_fonts.html

sean

[unihead]

Sean, you're brilliant. The Y height was scaled to 99.9%. Doh! Damn Flash quirkiness ...

Thanks very much for your help, I really appreciate it.

Peter

[studioqtopia]

right on! glad it was an easy fix for u.
cheers,
sean