Text and lines appear jagged in SWF. Why?

[danirob]

I guess this is a simple problem to resolve: when I publish my .SWF files, some of them (sometimes) appear with very poor quality lines and text when I view them in my browser. (I'm using standard fonts.)

When I click 'refresh' in the browser, the problem generally sorts itself out.

Any ideas why this might be happening? Is it something to do with the publish settings in the .fla movie?

Thanks in advance for your time and assistance.

Cheers

Dani

[Ask The Geezer]

It depends on which browser and which flashplayer version the browser is using. IE uses one version, while NS uses another, and they do not show the same movie in the same way. Then, throw in Mac users and browsers and it's a whole new problem.

I'd make sure I had the latest flashplayer installed, to start with.

Text is always a problem in flash. Unless you set the text box registration to top left and position that on a whole x or y number, it will cause blurred text. With static text, uncheck the "Use Devise Fonts" thing. Even if your using Arial, checking the box makes the text look jagged. Better to use Dynamic text boxes, positioned in the same way as above. Dynamic text seems to come out much clearer. And using createTextField to make dynamic text is even clearer.