Flash :: Bitmap Fonts Appear Blurry

Question About Using Non-system Fonts And Blurry Fonts
i'm using some miniml(vector-based?) fonts in my movie. how should i set my text options in order for the client to see the fonts and what would be optimal settings to avoid blur(right now they are placed on whole number increments and seem ok). thanks =)

Blurry Bitmap Font In Scroller?...
http://www.josimar.com (see the news thing on the left)

At first it appears sharp, then if you scroll the dragbar all the way to the bottom, it sits slightly blurry.

It's not a sizing problem or a 'sitting on a pixel' problem as far as I can see because I have reset all the relevant .mc sizes to x=100% y=100%, and they all sit on whole number co-ordinates, eg x=2.0, y=31.0.

Any advice?
thanks in advance,
spumker

Imported Bitmap Gets Blurry During Tween
I've got a large bitmap I need to scroll across the stage of a movie..The image I've included is a temp image I'm using until scanning is done on the original, however it is the same dimensions...

Anyway, after the movie starts to play everything is fine until frame 560, then it goes to crap(blurry)...However, if you right-click, zoom in/out you can see the image again...I've attached the .fla! PLEASE HELP

In real life this plays inside an empty clip on a large presentation, that will run on a projecter...

Bitmap Font Got Blurry Using Loadmovie.
flash MX was ok but i dont know it isnt workin at Flash 8.
when i load external swf file. the bitmap fonts got all blurry. (external swf is fine....) all coordination is .00 blank movie clip is on .00 too - i done it many time. but i dont know...might be flash 8 problem? Help me. bros.

you can see what is wrong at www.fetish-ewe.com

Blurry Bitmap Text (no Anti-alias) On Button Symbols
Hello,

Can someone please explain when making a button symbol using Arial then exporting as an .swf why the font exports blurry and not sharp?

Thanks.

Edited: 03/19/2007 at 09:00:32 AM by jasonjam

Blurry Fonts
Please check out this part of my site for me. I created it on a MAC and tested it on quite a few PC's. Most are ok but on some the font is fuzzy. I used Arial font mostly. Should I use a device font instead? Is this what most Flash Designers use?

http://www.saraohara.com/pages/SaraOhara.swf

Thanks!

Blurry Fonts =(
Does anybody know what cases pixel fonts to become blurry when published? Thanks

Blurry Fonts (help)
Hi!
I am preparing a CD which plays fullscreen and holds several scalable movies. Although the font I am using for texts is not very small (12 points), it looks a little blurry when presented at 800x600 pixel resolution. Besides, I can't use device fonts, since I need to mask some parts of the text.

Can you help me? Thanks in advance.

Blurry Fonts?
do these pixel fonts (fff business) in the middle of the screen look blurry? they just don't seem to be right. these are in a seperate clip, where all are on whole coordinates. do all of the movieclips in my entire movie also need to be on whole coordinates? thanks.

http://www.road-britannia.com

Blurry Fonts :(
I've got several dynamic textfields with a really nice
pixel font in it, but when I publish it the fonts are
really blurry. How can I solve this?

Blurry Fonts
i am using fff harmony, 8 pt downloaded from fontsforflash.com... i put the text as movie clip and the text looks so blur.. the text positions are without commas
anybody has idea how to fix this?

Blurry Fonts :(
I've got several dynamic textfields with a really nice
pixel font in it, but when I publish it the fonts are
really blurry. How can I solve this?

Blurry Fonts (HELP)
I am making a graphic menu in ps and when I use it in my flash program and publish to html the fonts always get all blurry. I'm not even using custom fonts but fonts like impact and verdana. Please help if you know what I can do to fix this.

~ Seretha

Blurry Fonts
I have this really big problem. I'm using FFF Harmony as font, and when I break it apart, it's blurry. When I don't, it's not but then nobody will see the text correctly because they don't have FFF Harmony on their pc. When I embed the font, it's blurry again.
So what in the world do I have to do to get broke apart text that isn't blurry !?

Yes I've read all about the pixel font guidelines ...

Blurry Fonts :(
I've got several dynamic textfields with a really nice
pixel font in it, but when I publish it the fonts are
really blurry. How can I solve this?

Blurry Fonts Again (?)
This might be a repeated question but, the fonts in flash look blurry, and my question is: How do i fix that? Its the font quality? The fonts must be pixel fonts? Or the best way is to save the text as png and then add it to the web site? this obviously increase the size of the file?
Thanx very much.

Blurry Fonts
I've got several dynamic textfields with a really nice
pixel font in it, but when I publish it the fonts are
really blurry. How can I solve this?

Damn Those Blurry Fonts
I know this is a common problem but I was wondering why this was happening when I load an external movieclip into another flash movie?

Having followed all the golden rules, kept pixel sizes at 8, and XY co-ordinates on exact numbers, as well as the the actual movieclip XY etc etc...I am confused at to why the font is horribly blurred?

It looks crispy in the external file before loading and
It only occurs after I have loaded it into another movie.

To see go to http://www.e-risk.com.au and click on the training button and have a look at the heading.

Why? Why? Why? Can this be fixed or is it best to cut my losses, convert the text to a gif and call it a day?

I've also tried setting the _x and _y position of the movieclip on load, but it still happens.

Is this a Flash 4/5 flaw, and will it be addressed in Flash 6?

Pixel Fonts - Blurry?
Hi, i want to use some pixel fonts on my site, but i just read an article that said they can't be done unless exported in low-quality (the .swf that is)

but i saw at the end that the date was around the time with flash 3,

have they fixed this? if so, how?

-coz

Pixel Fonts Are Blurry
I'm having trouble making pixel fonts show up correctly. I made sure the text boxes are placed on integers. I took off antialiasing text and it is still blurred. (mostly size 8) sometimes the font looks nothing like the original. Can anyone help me out? I want to use either a size 8 or 16 pixel font that is crisp at all times. Thanks in advance.

Blurry Pixel Fonts...help Please
Okay, my pixel fonts that I'm using are still fuzzy. They look like they're being smoothed. I thought this might just be OS X's doing, but it happens on PCs too apparently.

Is there something I have to set, to make my pixel font have hard edges?

Blurry Pixel Fonts
I have been following all the rules about pixel fonts (size 8, int. coorinates, not scaling movies &c) but some of my text fields are still not as crisp as what i want. One thing i have noticed is that the bad ones are all a few MC's deep. Does how many MCs within MCs matter with pixel fonts?

Pixel Fonts Still Blurry
I have created a dynamic scrolling text box using the pixel font FFF Business. It looks great in a static text box and fine on my system in a dynamic text box. On the Fonts For Flash website it states that fonts have to be embedded if they are in a dynamic text box but when I embed the font outlines it becomes all blurry.

The text is positioned correctly (the X/Y values rounded up), it's left aligned, it's rendered as html, I've done everything that has been suggested but it doesn't work.I've also added the font to my library using linkage properties.
Surely if you have a font on your system and it looks good on screen, when you embed that font it should look crisp on other systems. That's the point of embedding.

Could you give me any advise, suggestions???

Thanks!

Problems With Blurry Fonts.... Ive Tried Everything
i have followed all rules about using pixel fonts (interger coordinates, size 8, left justified ect.) but am still getting blurry fonts in parts of my file. If anybody would mind looking at a mock-file i made with the same problem and offer some advice i would appreciate it.

it 450 kb which is too big for flashkit apparently so heres a link to a download of it

http://student.uncw.edu/gfr2552/testSite.fla

At My Wits End With Blurry Fonts
Ok I have tried all the fonts on my PC and all of them are blurry as hell at 800x600. I even went so far as to purchase some from FFF.com. I made sure they did not reside on partial numbers always on the whole. If they are in a movie that the movie was on a whole number. Still blurry. I have made movies before in flash 5 and never had a problem but I am using MX prof now, can some one point me to a font that will work in 800x600 cause I am about to put my fist through the monitor!!! HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks :P

Blurry Fonts When Published
Im using straight arial fonts. When i publish the movie...my fonts are all blurry.

I checked my player setting. The quality is on "excellent"..
Perhaps there is a problem when i publish..

Please help!

Pixel Fonts Are Blurry
I'm using a pixel font set at 8 point (as required), with aliased text turned on, with ragged left alignment, and positioned on exact pixels, yet the text is still blurry in my menu. This text is inside a movie clip.

The thing is, the same font in simpler circumstances works just fine. What are some other things that could be causing the font to blur?

Still Blurry Pixel Fonts
A little question...

I've got a static text with a pixel font size 8.(the good one)
But even when I put all the mc's at whole pixels, the font is still blurry.

Can someone tell me what it wrong?
Maybe an other aspect I didn't saw.

tanks

How Can I Avoid BLURRY FONTS?
is there any font i can use that does not show up blurry when used at a smaller size?????

Pixel Fonts Are Blurry
Hello I have read several threads and tutorials on keeping pixel fonts crisp.
But mine are still blurry. Any surefire ways to keep my pixel fonts crisp?

1. They are three deep in terms of nested MovieClips. (They are inside a movie clip that is inside a movie clip that is in the main movie.)

2. I have checked the x,y of all these movie clips - and the info pallette says they are all on whole numbers. I checked the x,y of the type itself too.

3. All of these movie clips are 100% by 100%. Left aligned and sized at 8pt.

4. I have the alias button checked. (Just in case I have with and with out this checked - and still blurry - but if you have a different opinion, please still let me know.)

Any help is appreciated,
Thanks.

Blurry Pixel Fonts.
Hello I have read several threads and tutorials on keeping pixel fonts crisp.
But mine are still blurry. Any surefire ways to keep my pixel fonts crisp?

1. They are three deep in terms of nested MovieClips. (They are inside a movie clip that is inside a movie clip that is in the main movie.)

2. I have checked the x,y of all these movie clips - and the info pallette says they are all on whole numbers. I checked the x,y of the type itself too.

3. All of these movie clips are 100% by 100%

4. I have the alias button checked. (Just in case I have with and with out this checked - and still blurry - but if you have a different opinion, please still let me know.)

Any help is appreciated,
Thanks.

Pixel Fonts Still Blurry
Hello I have read several threads and tutorials on keeping pixel fonts crisp.
But mine are still blurry. Any surefire ways to keep my pixel fonts crisp?

1. They are three deep in terms of nested MovieClips. (They are inside a movie clip that is inside a movie clip that is in the main movie.)

2. I have checked the x,y of all these movie clips - and the info pallette says they are all on whole numbers. I checked the x,y of the type itself too.

3. All of these movie clips are 100% by 100%

4. I have the alias button checked. (Just in case I have with and with out this checked - and still blurry - but if you have a different opinion, please still let me know.)

Any help is appreciated,
Thanks.

Embedded Fonts Get Blurry.
I have a masked dynamic text field that load a .txt file on another location on my server. The text get blurry and ugly. Is there a way around this? If I dont embedd the text field my text wont show.

Pixel Fonts Are Blurry
Hello I have read several threads and tutorials on keeping pixel fonts crisp. But mine are still blurry. Any surefire ways to keep my pixel fonts crisp?

1. They are three deep in terms of nested MovieClips. (They are inside a movie clip that is inside a movie clip that is in the main movie.)

2. I have checked the x,y of all these movie clips - and the info pallette says they are all on whole numbers. I checked the x,y of the type itself too.

3. All of these movie clips are 100% by 100%. Left aligned and sized at 8pt.

4. I have the alias button checked. (Just in case I have with and with out this checked - and still blurry - but if you have a different opinion, please still let me know.)

Any help is appreciated,
Thanks.

Pixel Fonts Blurry
http://www.urbananthropublishingcompany.com/

see the main menu, all the fonts are on whole numbers......209.0 x 112.0 etc. They are at 8pts why are they blurry sometimes ??

Why Are Fonts So Blurry In Flash?
hi all,

can anyone advise me on how to sharpen the appearance of fonts in flash?

and what is pixel based fonts? what's the difference btw them and normal fonts in relation to flash?

thks again...

Blurry Pixel Fonts When Selected For Url.
Why do my pixel fonts become blurry when I select them and put something in the url field for a link. Such as mailto: johhny7@hotmail.com

and yes. the text block is on a whole number such as x=20 y=20

Blurry Pixel Fonts In Scrolls?
Does anyone have suggestions for scrolling pixel fonts so that they appear clear and crisp? My pixel font text is blurry in scrolls, but fine otherwise.

Pixel Fonts Blurry Once Embedded
Hi!
Yes, I've read the tutorial about making crisp pixel fonts: multiples of 8 (depending on the specific font), on an exact pixel, dynamic text, multiline, etc etc.

But following the instructions and embedding the font results in a blurry mess. (the exact reason this font was purchased)

Is there any way to embed a font and not have it blurry?!!??

Are my only crisp options ariel and verdana, even in flash?

Dynamic Pixel Fonts Blurry
Hi.

I'm using SkinnyMini (i.e., a pixel font) in a Gallery Component and the text labels accompanying the thumbnails are blurry.

1. The component is being attached on the wholepixel.

2. The text field is oriented "Left."

If I stick the following into my globalstyleFormat, the text becomes crisp as it should, but the blasted component breaks!

globalStyleFormat=Math.round;

Any Ideas?

Thanks!

Rick

Dymanic Text Fonts Are Blurry
Ok so I am making a RIA (I guess) which is a map in Flash. I have a "breadcrumb function" which is like that of any website including Ultrashock where you can "backtrack" to where you have been before.

So here is the code that spaces out the text and buttons according to the size of the text. Example -> "Hawaii" would make the button the same size as the text "Hawaii", "Ultrashock" would make the button the same size as "Ultrashock".

ActionScript Code:
// spaces out text fields....
_level0.breadCrumb.bread2_txt._x = _level0.breadCrumb.bread_txt._x+_level0.breadCrumb.bread_txt._width+4;
_level0.breadCrumb.bread3_txt._x = _level0.breadCrumb.bread2_txt._x+_level0.breadCrumb.bread2_txt._width+4;
// button 1 //
_level0.breadCrumb.bread_btn._x = _level0.breadCrumb.bread_txt._x;
_level0.breadCrumb.bread_btn._width = _level0.breadCrumb.bread_txt.textWidth+4;
// button 2 //
_level0.breadCrumb.bread2_btn._x = _level0.breadCrumb.bread2_txt._x;
_level0.breadCrumb.bread2_btn._width = _level0.breadCrumb.bread2_txt.textWidth+4;

So the text is blurry. I need it to be crisp. I have tried this in parts...

ActionScript Code:
_level0.breadCrumb.bread_btn._x = Math.floor(_x);

But it does nothing. The text is Dynamic, embedded, anti-aliased, Trebuchet MS, size 12. These factors cannot change. Any ideas?

Click if you want to see......Use Oahu as its the only one with complete breadcrumbs........http://www.pixelsuicide.com/map/map.html
You will see the breadcrumb at the top of the map.
Thanks!

Fonts Get Blurry When Font Outline Included?
I have a small problem. I have a dynamic text field. When I use the embed font outline option the fonts get blurry. The fonts are right justified, they are on whole pixel values (23.0). The font looks fine when I leave the embed font outline off. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.

Pixel/superpixel Fonts.......anyone Tell Me Why They Look Blurry As Any Other Font?
ok so i hear about super pixel and pixel fonts and think gee this is the answer to my blurry font issue on my site... i go and download a few of these follow the directions...publish my site...guess what they look just as blurry as any other font.. i followed the directions? I made sure all numbers were whole with no decimal and the fonts were enlarged by 8's... why are they still blurry? What am I missing?

Scrolling Pixel Fonts Slowly Get Blurry
hiya....i'm using one of these smooth scrollbars and have encountered a weird problem..i'm not having any trouble with the scroll stopping on a whole interger....the top half the the content is perfectly crisp and clear..but as you scroll down the fonts go blurry..why could this be?

Pixel Fonts - Do I Have To Choose Between Blurry And Masked?
I am using a dynamic text field which is loading info from a xml file. The text field needs to be masked, and therefore I have to embed the pixel font. However, when I embed the font it turns blurry...!! Do I really have to choose between havinge the font crisp or having it masked, or do anyone have a good solution to this?
Thanks

Bitmap Fonts Appear Blurry

Hello everyone,I am using the bitmap text (no anti aliase) feature on some text and it looks fine until I publish the file. At that point it appears blurry or a bit anti aliased rather than no anti aliase. Has anyone had this problem before and how did you fix it if you did?Thanks in advance,Doug