Embedding a font works, but for smaller fonts, even in Flash Player 7, it's all blurry. Flash Player 8 looks pretty good.
Both solutions, however, add a ton of CPU & RAM overhead because embedded fonts use anti-aliasing to make them look nice so slow down animations and use more ram. However, setting a mask via code isn't always preferrable for some designs. Pick the solution that's best. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Éric Thibault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flashcoders mailing list" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 3:52 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Why does Mask, mask dynamic text? Or like said: embed the font in your loaded swf Noyes, Jeff wrote: >So you have to set the mask through actionscript - that's the only way? > >-----Original Message----- >From: JesterXL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 1:54 PM >To: Flashcoders mailing list >Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Why does Mask, mask dynamic text? > > >Not true; if you use Flash Player 6.0.41.0 or higher, you can mask >device >fonts using the setMask function. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Marc Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Flashcoders mailing list" <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 1:16 PM >Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Why does Mask, mask dynamic text? > > >You have to embed the font for the dynamic text in order for it to >show through a mask. > >At 10:00 AM 10/31/2005, you wrote: > > >>>I'm applying a mask on top of a dynamically loaded .swf. The Mask >>> >>> >>is removing all dynamic text - why? >> >> >>1. Try doing a dynamic mask, applied at runtime. I think there's a bug >>with applying masks in the authoring environment to dynamic text >>2. Why did you reply to a completly unrelated message? >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Flashcoders mailing list >[email protected] >http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > >_______________________________________________ >Flashcoders mailing list >[email protected] >http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders >_______________________________________________ >Flashcoders mailing list >[email protected] >http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > > -- =============================================================== Éric Thibault Programmeur analyste Réseau de valorisation de l'enseignement Université Laval, pavillon Félix-Antoine Savard Québec, Canada Tel.: 656-2131 poste 18015 Courriel : [EMAIL PROTECTED] =============================================================== Avis relatif à la confidentialité / Notice of Confidentiality / Advertencia de confidencialidad <http://www.rec.ulaval.ca/lce/securite/confidentialite.htm> _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
