Re: Flash text was (Re: FLASH: images quality)

[John Croteau]

Hi Lena,


Lena Björklund wrote:

> 

> Hi John.

> 

> John Croteau wrote:

> 

> > Hi Lena,

> >

> > I do appreciate your calling my explination a mess...

> 

> I meant "mess" as short for "message". 8)

> 

> John Croteau wrote:

> 

> > Hi Lena,

> >

> > > To my understanding, the "imaginary" freedom of font choice and typesetting

> > > in Flash, isn´t solved, then. Is that right a right interpretetion of your

> > > mess?

> > I do appreciate your calling my explination a mess...

> 

> >  Most people increse the minimum font size they use

> > by a point or two to compensate for Flash's smoothness.

> 

> Me to. But I very much miss the opportunity to set texts in 12-13  or smaller

> points for "regular text" (it´s "bread text" in swedish). You always have to

> test wether the font you like to use works - is readable - or not. In most cases

> it isn´t.

It would be nice if MM gave us a switch to turn off anti-aliasing, but i

think they think it would be more trouble than it's worth (they may be

right). 


Body text (bread text) is normally limited to a choice of a few

different fonts styles even in print. For screen display a large

selection of suitable body font styles is even more difficult because of

the lower resolution. In general Display (Headline) text is where there

is a wider latitude and variety of font choices and Flash does not limit

these choices.


The _sans _serif and _typewriter font designations do not offer exact

shape and placement of characters to the viewer but do allow a smaller

file and generally offer slightly better display at the smaller sizes

(this varies from computer to computer). Please note - they do not allow

the use of tiny text.


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