Guys, I’ve read many tutorials, and I still can’t understand, why nobody has an answer to this question. Why do famous design companies and designer use pixel font, it shows on our computers, and it’s still crystal clear! There must be some way! I am certain that we don’t know something… but what is it? 8]
This should get you started: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/usingtext.asp
pom C:-)
no no. i am not talking about that. i understood that tutorial. i am asking about another thing. for example if i use some cool pixel font, that many people don’t have on their pc. i must embed it. but then it becomes all blury n stuff. well, if i don’t embed it, and leave it just at dynamic, then it’s alright, but people without the font, won’t see it :(. the only solve to this i found: i just create images with text and import them as images into flash, thus make effects with them, and have them crispy and sharp. anymore suggestions?
Try using a font made especially for flash, you can get some here:
I used fonts from there… still antialias works… I used the method with saving text as .gif or .png and it works good. the only problem is that you can’t really mask it well, and can’t do much effects with it, unless you make each letter as a .png and make up words :!: sounds insane. but maybe that’s the way professionals do it. i have no idea. i am just guessing. anybody have any ideas?
www.hot.ee/dvm/new that’s where i used the method.
Well sure it still anti-aliases.
With pixel fonts, there are two kinds. Photoshop and Flash types.
With Photoshop, most of these are not true pixel fonts, so when in Flash, they appear distorted because with Flash pixel fonts they need to lie directly on a pixel otherwise they anti-alias.
What you need to do is get a font that was made for Flash, then use that, but if your textbox has to be at just the right X and Y coordinates so that the pixels of the text lie on pixels on the stage, usually you have to open the properties of the textbox itself and change the X and Y textboxes to be whole numbers and not decimals. I have experienced it where my text was on whole numbers and it was still distorted (because of the alignment of the text I am supposing) so in this case I just adjust the X and/or Y position by 1 decimal point until it was fixed.
You better use a new feature in MX : “snap to pixels”
And: everything must be aligned, if the textfield is in a clip, the clip also has to be on whole pixels.
And: each pix font is designed to be used only at a particular size (or multiple of)!
And: check this out:
http://www.minifonts.com/faqs.html
OMG!
Eyezburg, I have always known about the snap to pixels, and used it sometimes, but I have never thought to use it for pixel fonts.
'DOH!..lol.
