Re: FLASH: Text animation

[John Croteau]

Hi Angelique,


> about prose revision and rhetoric.  This involves having lots of words in

> book fonts (say, Palatino 12) move around on the screen.  I can find many

> sites with lovely tips about all sorts of animation, but this sort of text

> animation is really a different animal.  For example, once I export, the

First make sure your Quality is set at High and not AutoHigh.

Unfortunately the anti-aliasing in Flash does not work very well on

small text. The results of small ttext varies based on the particular

Font used.


If your text manipulation is simple, downloadable fonts should be

considered. Though both Netscape 4+ and MSIE 4+ both support

downloadable fonts they each require a different system for creating and

displaying fonts. Both of these systems handle smalll fonts better than

Flash but there is not good simple authoring system that I know of that

handles both downloadable font systems. If you happen to have an

audience that is made up of a single version 4 browser type then the

downloadable font solution might be a solution. This is especially true

with IE4 where Flash works with DHTML so you could do text manipulation

in DHTML and other graphics with Flash above or below the text.


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