disfigured text

[garrybibson]

check this page i ma currently making ..

http://www.cl-landscapes.co.uk/job1.htm

my problem is the "before/after" button, it appears to be disfigured and i do not know why, can anybody give me some advise on what to do in these circumstances?

i have made the button in photoshop and then imported the .png, in turn i then converted to a button.

please help as i have changed my publish settings to good and i still dont see any improvement!

thanks in advance - barry

[pellepiano]

I see nothing wrong with the button at all.

[garrybibson]

im using ie5.5 and both the before and after text are distorted, they have vertical lines out of sync in them? do you not see this with your browser?

now im confused

[pellepiano]

hHere is what I see. ( attached).

[pellepiano]

Sorry, pressed the wrong button. here it is.

[garrybibson]

yes you see it compared to the "home" button at top of page it is no way near as clear .. is this a limitation of flash or should i be doing something different?

[pellepiano]

Ok, I see the lines in the button now. But they are not that obvious in my opinion. I think the difference is minimal. But that may say more about me needing glasses......=)

[mowgli_uk]

It could be one of many things. If my understanding is righ, the button is a jpg. If that is the case, it could be the compression you have set when you publish the swf. It could also be an alignment issue. Make sure that your image is aligned to exact pixels on the stage.

[garrybibson]

its imported into fmx in .png format, it has a transparent section round the edge to make the gap and i align it in the bottom right corner using the "align" box

still confused how to fix it :s

[garrybibson]

can you explain "aligned to exact pixels on the stage." a bit better i am not quite sute what you mean.

[mowgli_uk]

make sure that all movie clips associated with the button (if its inside another movie clip) and the button and image are aligned to exact pixels (100 rather than 100.2 for example) you can find this by selecting your symbols and checking the info panel.
I also advice you tho align things using the top left corner of the symbol rather than the bottom right.
Also make sure that your image is being exported as a png and not a jpg.

[garrybibson]

w =124.0
h =52.0

x =151.0
y =223.0

this was the positioning before, i have now changed the page and aligned the button in top left corner using the align box and i still get the same discrepancy

[garrybibson]

i got jpeg quality at 100% and html quality as "best" but no joy

i have got original .png files that i used here

http://www.cl-landscapes.co.uk/images/after.png
http://www.cl-landscapes.co.uk/images/afteron.png
http://www.cl-landscapes.co.uk/images/before.png
http://www.cl-landscapes.co.uk/images/beforeon.png

[mowgli_uk]

are those the coordinates of the image? if so, also check the coordinates of the button. Everything associated with the button needs to be aligned perfectly. Also, have you checked the export settings of the image?

[garrybibson]

i took the before.png file and i converted to symbol --> "button" then i edited in place and changed "down" to beforeon.png

my .fla is here

http://www.cl-landscapes.co.uk/flash/test.fla

i just cannot understand why this is happening.

[garrybibson]

can nobody explain this?