Flash Kerning
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- ********
I'm setting out some UI in flash, and I'm simply using 10pt Verdana, no aliasing, and there's ridiculously crap kerning going on. "Auto Kern" does nothing to improve the situation.
Is this fixable, or is flash just a piece of crap?
- ********0
you might want to get a pixel font.
fuck knows, i am only ever allowed to us Impact or Trajan.
- WhiteFace0
This is stupid but try setting the line-spacing to 1 then back to 0, I think it's a bug in Flash?
- WeLoveNoise0
or write it out in illy and export it as a swf [not the best idea but def sort the kerning out]
- craighooper0
Don't bother w/ Verdana. Use a pixel font at 8pt, and keep it on a whole pixel on both the X and Y. Verdana w/ no anti-aliasing becomes a screen/pixel font anyway, just w/ shit spacing...
- Is there a benefit to using a "web safe" font in flash? will it render as a real font this way instead of graphics?designbot
- No benefit at all to using a web-safe font w/ Flashcraighooper
- ********0
oh god above...
- craighooper0
Get on it.
- Fariska0
Is that dynamic text or static text?
- ********0
try verdana with <textformat letterspacing='-1'>sfdsfsdf</textformat>
that might work
- ********0
It's going to be dynamic text.
- ********0
and?
- craighooper0
You can still use a pixel font w/ a dynamic txt field. Trust me, you are going to get much better results w/ a real screen font, and, as mentioned above, Verdana w/ AA turned-off is nothing but a pixel font, but w/ horrendous spacing. The control aspect is night-and-day...
- Fariska0
ok, so do what mime said.
If that doesn't work, you need to set-up a textformat and apply it to the textfield. (follow the help it's pretty straightforward)On a sidenote: why you can't/don't want to use anti aliasing? are you targeting earlier flash versions? 10k languages to be supported?
Eventually you can consider to embed the font and the text will render properly.
- ********0
because the anti aliasing in flash is worse than it's kerning.
- Not if is antialias for readabilityFariska
- Looks like shit to me?********
- just makes the font bigger (and denies it) and gives it fur.********
- ********0
I'm used to photoshop, where the aliasing is excellent.
- craighooper0
Flash CS3 AA is amazing—choose "readability" (as Fariska says), or "custom" and play w/ the settings. It's actually better than PS AA rendering. I've never seen type on the screen look as good as w/ Flash CS3...
- ********0
Flash is a god-damn liar.
I change things, and it doesn't apply it.
I duplicate things, AND THEY LOOK DIFFERENT.
How do you put up with this??Anyway - I seem to have reached a compromise by setting "readability" and downsizing the font-size from "10pt" to 9 - which isn't really 10pt is it? It's another flash lie. It just fucking makes it's bigger when there's a J in the month and it's a Monday.......
Piece of crap.
- craighooper0
If you know what you are doing w/ respect to Flash and how it handles type, it's a beautiful thing. If you don't—it'll make you pull your hair out...
- ********0
dynamic text doesn't kern properly, I don't believe
- MediaPimp0
use AS to kern with dynamic text.