Flash :: Replicating Photoshop Text Tool Antialiasing Settings In Flash 8?

Disabling Antialiasing Text In Flash MX 7
Hello,

I have a problem with the antialiasing of my text. I dont want it smoothed out by antialiasing, but I have no idea how to do that?? I'm using Flash Mx 7. My friend uses Flash Mx 2004 and there's a button for enabling/disabling the antialiasing. I hope there is any chance to disable that in Mx 7.
If not, I would be very happy about any hints, how to load my fla files in Flash Mx 2004. Please help me, I'm running out of time, and I'm stuck with this damn "small" problem.

Thanks for any help.

Chris

Image Scale/move/rotate - Ala Photoshop Transform Tool
So, I have to build something like the free transform tool in photoshop for user interaction. I have done most all of it (the move/scale/proportional stuff) but I just can't work out the rotation. I'm doing the rest of it with Matrix transformations on BitmapData, but the rotation stuff from corner points is totally throwing me.

I know about the Greensock API, but there is absolutely no budget to buy it (even though in billable terms I guess it's not even a quarter of my day rate!).

Any pointers would be just wonderful.

Help Needed On Styling And Replicating Text Field
As a new AS3 coder I'm at a little bit of a loss on the most efficient way to replicate a styled text field.

I would like to use the following styled text info and load some text from an array. Do I need to create all this styling for every instance of the text in the array or can I create several new instances of the field in my function?

Thank you in advance for your help.

ActionScript Code:
var headlines:TextField = new TextField();var headline:TextFormat = new TextFormat();headline.size = 20;headline.font = new HelvBlack().fontName;headlines.alpha = 0;headlines.setTextFormat(headline);headlines.embedFonts = true;headlines.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;

Text Antialiasing
I've some fonts best viewed in 8 points (FFF..., standard..., hooge...,): sometimes, even if text is in a position .0 (for example 88.0 and 100.0) fonts have however antialiasing: how do I disactivate antialiasing on fonts from Flash MX mantaining the quality of swf high?
Thanks.

Text Antialiasing V.2
Thanks to Teebo e Mulcac: I have an other question: if I set dynamic text, other users which don't have that font can see it?

Antialiasing Dynamic Text
Hey all,
does anyone know of a way to force antialiasing on dynamic boxes? When i use dynamic text the AA option is grayed out and the text comes out looking aliased, Im trying to display variables from a database so i have to use dynamic text boxes true?

Pete.

Dynamic Text Antialiasing
is there a way to make dynamic textboxes not antialias other than not embedding the fonts? I need to embed the fonts so that the dynamic text can fade in/out, but I hate the way that flash smooths over verdana, and I'd like to keep it looking the way it normally does.

My Text Is Blury Antialiasing?
Hi helper,

any small typing that i use in my flash website,
gets blury and just doesnt look good when i view
it in explorer.

Is there some kind of setting i can use?

Or am i previewing it in some wrong way?

By the way, how do i insert sound to my buttons?

Thanks,

John

NOT Antialiasing Static Text
Hi
I am using the great inertia scroller from here,

it uses static text but is anti-aliasing it... even when I have it set not to. I was going to convert it to dynamic text but it breaks, so a solution for static would be great

How can I get flash NOT to anti-alias the text?

Thanks
Helen

Publishing With Out Antialiasing Text
can someone tell me the way to publish a flash file with the smoothing turned off, so there will be no antialiasing of my text because it makes it look all blurry.

thanx SWIFT

Antialiasing Dynamic Text Box
hey i have a text box reading a .txt file and is there any way to make the text read, antialiased?

Thanks

Removing Antialiasing From Text
Sorry, it's probably a newbee question, but I'm not a flash guru ;). If a vertical menu with buttons which I want to have 12pt fonts arial, but antialias blurs it and it becomes difficult to read. How can I turn that of so it lukes razor-sharp?

Thanx!

Removing Antialiasing From Static Text......
is ther n e way to do it?
cheers 4 n e help
jh

Font Embedding/text Antialiasing
I want my dynamic textboxes to be able to use _alpha, but when I embed the fonts it antialiases them and looks all cruddy. I tried embedding them and changing the quality for that clip to low, but no dice. Is there a way to turn off -just- text antialiasing? (By the way, I'm using Flash 5, so it might be different for me). Thanks.

Advanced Antialiasing Clipping Text
Anybody else finding that using advanced antialiasing on text created with createTextField causes the right hand character to be clipped? What can I do to remedy it? Everything's fine when I set it to normal.

thanks
mark
flash8

Text Keeps Antialiasing When I Tell It To Use Device Fonts
This is driving me nuts, I've got a website which uses only device fonts (in large text boxes across pages) and in text buttons, although every time I load up flash (randomly) I find it's nicely changed them all back to anti-aliasing for reading. I have to keep changing everything back each time! GAH

Has this happened to anyone else? Is this a glitch, because I've never had this problem.

Thanks

Antialiasing/movement Of Dynamic Text
Related to a previous thread of mine, I want to use dynamic text in a MC that is moved around using AS.

Problem is, that dynamic text shows up unaliased and pixelated, and its movement in the MC is sort of lumpy and erratic. The AS function works perfectly well with static text, which moves smoothly and is antialiased.

Do I need to render the dynamic text in some way, or is there some other method of making it look more normal? Should I use tweening rather than AS to make it move?

Sample file attached.

Antialiasing Html Text Field
Hi Kirupaeans,
I'm using a dynamic text field to display CSS-formatted html. My question: can I embed the font for this text field? When I try to embed the font outlines (via the "character..." button), nothing shows up when I run the swf.
Does anyone know if this is simply not allowed with html text fields, or is there a way around it? Note that using the "alias" button doesn't affect the results.
In other words, on one part of my design I have text in a static field, and on rendering it appears anti-aliased, and frankly, looks nicer. Now on the html-dynamic field, it's aliased and looks worse.
What's the story? Thanks in advance!
:: v_D ::

AntiAliasing Text Overlapping Issue
Hi there.

I'm working on a project, and decided that readability was too low, so I enabled advanced antialiasing on text throughout the site. In the majority of places, it looks correct, however anywhere in text where the color changes, the text overlaps (e.g. a block of grey text with a blue link in it, the blue link text actually begins on top of the end of the previous word). The weirdest part is that if you roll over the first piece of text (that lies under the second piece), the text shifts and it looks correct.

I have screenshots of before and after and some code examples below. I've attempted to utilize the TextRenderer functionality in flash.text to no avail (setting any advanced antialiasing settings to make Flash treat light and dark text the same results in a crash of the Flash player, so I've abandoned this method) and manually setting thickness and sharpness seem to change nothing.

Does anyone know why this might be happening?

Code:
var ss:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet();
var a:Object = new Object();
a.color = "#19BCB9";
a.fontFamily = "Georgia";
a.fontSize = "12";
a.leading = "4";
var body:Object = new Object();
body.color = "#666666";
body.fontFamily = "Georgia";
body.fontSize = "12";
body.leading = "4";
ss.setStyle("a", a);
ss.setStyle("body", body);

var blogContent:TextField = new TextField();
blogContent.styleSheet = ss;
blogContent.htmlText = "<body>" + item + "</body>";
blogContent.x = 0;
blogContent.y = 0;
blogContent.width = 550;
blogContent.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
blogContent.embedFonts = true;
blogContent.wordWrap = true;
blogContent.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;
http://www.dotstrosity.net/stuff/

Picture 1 is before the mouse rolls over the affected text, and Picture 2 is after. This issue did not occur prior to turning on advanced antialiasing and the font is embedded.

Replicating Website + Flash
Okay. Here is my predicament. My Father's company (Natural Herbal Prodicts) is paying some people a large sum of money to design a website. The design that they are stuck with is mediocre and not very functional and I could do a much better job, and would like to do so, except for this obstable. They are making a replicating website, that would be plugged into the already existing database system. Let me explain...

The original domain name will be www.entreneteam.com
Say I ordered, then a site would automatically be created after the order at the url
www.entreneteam.com/eric.html
Now say I give my card to someone with my url on it and they will get the same frontpage as anybody else, but when they order, they will be put under me in the distributor line so that their orders benefit me.
So these frontpages would be replicated like a tree and tied into the distributor database. Now, he already has a programmer that can take care of the database part, and tying the database into it, but I would still personally have to do the replicating webbsite part of it myself.

Now I have no idea how to do that, and will gladly research, but is this possible to do in Flash MX or in Flash MX and Cold Fusion, so that I could include the funtionability of a replicating website, with a good flash design?
I would really be helping my father out of a situation if I could do so.
Thanks for your time.

Replicating OnDragOver In Flash 5
Hi every1. First post, wondering if you can help me.

The deal is I've got an MC that I am dragging around my scene and I need other MC's to be highlighted as I drag over them, i.e. the mouse is still down. Buttons don't work, onClipEvent only runs once whilst mouseDown (so I can't do a continuous position check) and the only thing I can think of working is the onDragOver and onDragOut events in MX but I am using flash 5?

Any feedback welcome. Can't help feeling like am being very stupid, am sure this is possible, but can't for the life of me think how.

Cheers,
Sir.

Replicating Flash, Am Stuck :(
Hey,

I seen this flash thing. And i want to learn how the computer gets brought into it. Take a look here http://www.clipitsolutions.co.uk/flash/flashmovie.swf .. As soon as it starts, the computer comes in with like a cirle being tweened over it. But i dont understand how to do this?

If anyone could help, would be most greatful. I really wana learn this technique but its fryin my brain lol

Thanks,
Paul

Export Frame For Classes In Publish Settings Flash Action Script Settings
My preloader doesn't load until 100KB into the movie
and I figured out it's because it's loading my components
(I'm using 3 instances of a Media Display and of a Media Controller)
in the first frame.
So I changed the Flash ActionScript Settings (in the Publish Settings)
to Export Frame for Classes 2
which made the first frame much lighter -
an acceptable 10K
BUT that made my components act very badly.

Please help!

Thanks!

Is It Possible To Switch Off Antialiasing For Some Text Elements In Same Movie?
Well...

Serious question again. Because I am very irritated over how FLASH use to handle text aliasing, Am wondering if it is possible to switch off antialiasing only for some part in movie. For example, one separate text holder with body text should not have antialiasing on, and another text block with titles should.
You got my point, do you?
Please give a suggestion…

Regards,
FLASH lover…

Non Antialiased Text Is Antialiasing When A Script Happens.... Dont Want It To Do Tht
I have a submenu that is scrollable and when u roll into the area that checks the x and y coordinates it makes the text antialiased when I dont want it to be anti aliased. The font is Arial nothing fancy.

The link is here: http://www.mywayflash.com/xfer/index.html

The FLA working file is http://www.mywayflash.com/xfer/gildemeister.fla

To see it happen again just hit f5 and refresh the flash to get it back to the way i want it to stay when u rollover.

I unchecked the A in the properties box which makes it look clean at the start... until u roll into the defined area and then it freaks out.

Does anyone know how to remedy this?

Thanks in advance,
Chris

Antialiasing Text In Imported Html Files And Css
I followed the css/html tutorial and got everything working properly. The problem is, I lost the anti aliasing along the way. Can I get it back?

Or, another solution to my problem would be if I could use multiple formats within a single dynamic text field. Is that possible?

Photoshop Beveled Text To Flash
I need to create duplicate text in Flash of a photoshop file which uses a bevel effect on the text. I have tried breaking text in Flash apart and then use the "Modify/soften Fill Edges" command but it doesn't turn out like it should. I also tried to use illustrator and open the ai file in flash but had no luck there. If anyone can help then I would apprciate it as I need to have this finished soon.

Flash 8 Text And Font Settings
With regard to setting up the properties for text and fonts in flash, would you recommend using device fonts, anti-alias for readability, or a different option?

Also, I ran into a weird discrepancy in Flash 8 on a MAC and PC:

On a MAC, I selected Static Text, Helvetica and the default 'Anti-alias for readability'. When I published and uploaded to my site, the text didn't appear at all! So I switched to 'Use device fonts' and it worked. In contrast, on a PC, 'Anti-alias for readability' works fine and 'Use device fonts' gives me the same result as 'Anti-alias for readability' on a MAC!

If anyone can explain or perhaps suggest a different method, it would be most appreciated.

Edited: 03/29/2007 at 10:00:54 AM by Bridge28

Tool-tip Text For Flash...
Hi all,

Can anybody tell me how I can do standard tool-tip text in actionscript?

Cheers.

Text Links - Flash Security Settings
Hi guys,

I have a simple text with a hyperlink to a website url and whenever i lick the text link within a browser I get this error;

'Flash is trying to communicate with the Internet ;

www.......etc'

And it asks me to change my securty settings.

Will the users also see this?

How could I go around this?

Thanks,

Marc

Does Flash Have Text Blending Effect As Same In Adobe Photoshop?
Hi there,

I'm a beginner in Flash. I just want to make an animated intro for my site. I know how to use Adobe Photoshop & Adobe ImageReady. I created my montage intro on Adobe Photoshop and now want to animate it.

I tried to animate on ImageReady, but the file turned out to be so big. I tried Flash. There are some texts and pictures on my intro that I want to do blending and opacity/filing like they have in Photoshop. I looked over Flash, it doesn't have these configurations (or that I don't know).

So I want to ask anybody know if I can do these (blending, opacity/filling on texts) in Flash like in Photoshop?

How Do You Make Vector Text In Photoshop To Import To Flash 8?
I'm trying to make some nice text for a logo in photoshop, but how do i export it as a vector into Flash so it will not distort?

3 Text Tool Flash Questions
I am trying to make an animated gif using Macromedia Flash MX, and I am running into 3 problems I cant seem to solve.

1. When in "design time", I can change the color of the text I add to the movie fine, but when I publish it, all the text comes out black no matter what I set it to, the background shows up any one of a rainbow of colors I choose for it correctly, but text is always black, and I want to change that.

2. Even though Flash supposidly uses unicode characters, I cannot use them in the text fields/"text tools", it just turns it into a question mark (?), is it possible for me to use unicode characters like that.

3. When I write text into a text tool, certain characters I want to have diferent font sizes and colors than the rest, at design time, it works fine, but when it is published, everything is (again all black), is the same size and font.

How To Work With Tool Tip Text In Flash...
Hi,

How do we include a tool tip text in general for any text content in flash? In general, if I have a statement that says Flash is an awesome tool and wish to have tooltip for the word awesome, can it be done? If so how?

Please throw light on this.

Thanks.

Im After A Free Flash Text Tool.
Or even a trial version that I can save from, ie fully working version. I just want to get to grips with a simple program and use it on a site or two before I fork out for it. I tried a java one called jgenerator but could get it working. Anyone got any recommendations?

Sharpen Text Buttons? (look Good In Photoshop But Distorted In Flash Movie)
i've created buttons with text in PhotoShop that I've imported to Flash and they look fine when they're on the stage, but when the movie is tested they seem to distort. They also appear distorted when they're rendered in a Web browser inside HTML.

this is not exactly the same issue as other recent posts dealing with sharpening text since it deals with text distortion in an image as opposed to just plain text but i wonder if it's related?

why does flash distort images like this? any way to prevent it?

thanks.

Fonts Antialiasing In Flash CS3
I am planning to upgrade my MX Studio and I'm curious if it will be possible to have crisp textx without resorting to pixel fonts?

Have you got any info?

Regards,
Joey33

Edited: 04/08/2007 at 04:50:56 AM by Joey33

Flash Resize - How Display Clear Text And Images In All Screen Settings
PLEASE COULD SOMEONE HELP ME.......

I have designed a website in FLASH using the following Settings:

Dimentions: 100% x 100%

Scale: Exact Fit

Transparentlece Backgroud

The page WIDTH and HIGHT of the website pages designed is: 800x600

THE PROBLEM I AM HAVING IS THAT when I view the website on a 800x600 screen resolution the text gets disorted and the images become smaller too. The website begins to looks scruffy.

WHEN I view the website on a 1024x768 screen size or greater the webpages are clear and easy to read.

This is a website where the size of the WEBPAGE changes when the screen size changes but the txt and pics remin the same and dont become disorted. HOW CAN I VIEW MY WEBSITE LIKE THIS AND HAVE CLEAR TEXT AND CLEAR PICS IN ALL SCREEN SETTINGS LIKE THIS SITE BELOW...

http://www.x1xfilmanddesign.co.uk/ (HOW CAN I HAVE MY PICS AND TXT APPEAR CLEARLY LIKE THIS WEBSITE IN ALL SCREEN SETTINGS)

THANK YOU

JOE

Flash Antialiasing (or Is It Image Smoothing...)
How do you turn off image smoothing or antialisaing in Flash CS3?

Have a look here to see what flash does:
Image
The green is what it should look like, the red is what Flash makes it look like.
If I select 'Fast' under the preview mode, it shows perfectly but thats not permanent.

Replicating An Effect
say there's one particular "effect" i want to use on several different symbols, what's the best way to go about reproducing it? for example, let's say i find a particular way of affecting color and size with lots of tweens that makes a really nice "shine" effect, and want to use the same settings on 30 or 40 different text and/or image links - how should i go about it?

tyia

Help In Replicating Menu
Hi,
I am working on a website and want to integrate a Flash menu, with the same type layout as the one used here (http://www.islandrecords.com/thekillers/site/home.las). I'd like a menu list where you get sub-menu items when you roll over the buttons. I'm just getting into learning Flash, and could use some help. I've got my main image and my buttons created on seperate layers. But I don't know how I should put the sub-menu items in, or how to get them to appear when you roll over the buttons. Any assistance in how to properly set this up is much appreciated. Thanks in advance. - Eric

Replicating An Applet
Hi,
I saw this applet that basically had heaps of points arrange in columns and rows, that when u clicked and held the left mouse button down they would move towards the mouse, and move away if the right button was clicked.

so the question is how do i make this code 4 making the points arrange on stage simpler I am sure there is a better way.

Code:
a = 0;
j = 1;
for (i=1; i<11; i++) {
peete = [i, j];
_root.attachMovie("point", peete, 1+i);
a = a+60;
b = 60;
_root[peete]._x = a;
_root[peete]._y = b;
}
a = 0;
j = 2;
for (i=1; i<11; i++) {
peete = [i, j];
_root.attachMovie("point", peete, 20+i);
a = a+60;
b = 120;
_root[peete]._x = a;
_root[peete]._y = b;
}
a = 0;
j = 3;
for (i=1; i<11; i++) {
peete = [i, j];
_root.attachMovie("point", peete, 40+i);
a = a+60;
b = 180;
_root[peete]._x = a;
_root[peete]._y = b;
}
a = 0;
j = 4;
for (i=1; i<11; i++) {
peete = [i, j];
_root.attachMovie("point", peete, 60+i);
a = a+60;
b = 240;
_root[peete]._x = a;
_root[peete]._y = b;
}
a = 0;
j = 5;
for (i=1; i<11; i++) {
peete = [i, j];
_root.attachMovie("point", peete, 80+i);
a = a+60;
b = 300;
_root[peete]._x = a;
_root[peete]._y = b;
}
a = 0;
j = 6;
for (i=1; i<11; i++) {
peete = [i, j];
_root.attachMovie("point", peete, 100+i);
a = a+60;
b = 360;
_root[peete]._x = a;
_root[peete]._y = b;
}
a = 0;
j = 7;
for (i=1; i<11; i++) {
peete = [i, j];
_root.attachMovie("point", peete, 120+i);
a = a+60;
b = 420;
_root[peete]._x = a;
_root[peete]._y = b;
}
a = 0;
j = 8;
for (i=1; i<11; i++) {
peete = [i, j];
_root.attachMovie("point", peete, 140+i);
a = a+60;
b = 480;
_root[peete]._x = a;
_root[peete]._y = b;
}
a = 0;
j = 9;
for (i=1; i<11; i++) {
peete = [i, j];
_root.attachMovie("point", peete, 160+i);
a = a+60;
b = 540;
_root[peete]._x = a;
_root[peete]._y = b;
}
a = 0;
j = 10;
for (i=1; i<11; i++) {
peete = [i, j];
_root.attachMovie("point", peete, 180+i);
a = a+60;
b = 600;
_root[peete]._x = a;
_root[peete]._y = b;
}
also i am using a mouse down clip event to make the points move to the mouse how do i make this happen for the whole time the mouse is down not just the click?

Replicating Photoshop Text Tool Antialiasing Settings In Flash 8?

Does anyone have any custom antialiasing settings to match up with the 4 settings: smooth, sharp, crisp and strong?Thanks

Does anyone have any custom antialiasing settings to match up with the 4 settings: smooth, sharp, crisp and strong?

Thanks