# |Frustrated 'bout fonts|HELP|

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/frustrated-bout-fonts-help/20001>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 3, 2003, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/frustrated-bout-fonts-help/20001 "2003-05-03T21:43:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![El\_Thierro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/858c86/32.png) [@El\_Thierro](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/El_Thierro)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/frustrated-bout-fonts-help/20001/1 "2003-05-03T21:43:26Z")

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[color=darkblue]K, here’s the deal… I’m in Flash MX, right? I start a new scene, right? I select a certain pixel-kind-of font, and I type something in Static text. When I preview, the text isn’t clear, isn’t kind of blurry. Then I read a tutorial here on [Kirupa.com](http://Kirupa.com), saying you need to use dynamic text. So I use dynamic text and tedaaah, nice crystal-sharp text in preview. Hooray! But when I publish the thingy on the net, it seems that people who don’t have the pixel font, see the text in that crappy Times New Roman. So I come on to this forum, and they tell me I have to “embed the font”. So I embed the dynamic text. And I preview. And guess what? It’s blurry again!:hangover: So I’m getting pretty frustrated over here! What should I do to have the crystal clear font I get when using dynamic text, but make it accesible to people who don’t have the font? I know it’s possible, coz you see those small fonts on hundreds of sites… Please help me, for I’m desperate =) [/color]

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/frustrated-bout-fonts-help/20001/2 "2003-05-03T21:48:40Z")

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embedding the font makes it fuzzy, if you are using pixel fonts, embed it and make sure that the text box is on exact pixels. Its x/y values are rounded numbers, no decimals 50 (not 50.3)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 9:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/frustrated-bout-fonts-help/20001/3 "2003-05-03T21:50:10Z")

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[color=darkblue]Should I embed the static or the dynamic text?[/color]

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 9:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/frustrated-bout-fonts-help/20001/4 "2003-05-03T21:51:50Z")

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if you use static text it is automatically embeded. I don’t think it matters eitherway in terms of file size…

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/frustrated-bout-fonts-help/20001/5 "2003-05-03T21:54:35Z")

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[color=darkblue]Okay, I think I’ve got the hang of it… For now at least 🙂 Thx for your help [/color]