On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Scott Rossi wrote:
> OK, I'm sitting at home working on a proposal for a client that will involve
> some multimedia development in MC. It should be a nice little project, a
> holiday greeting disc from a winery and an online music company.
>
> Part of the project will involve superimposing some elegant antialiased
> typography on top of suitable holiday images. After contemplating the
> methods available to achieve this effect, it occurs to me that the most
> efficient way to pull this off would be to overlay masked images of the type
> on top of the holiday images, so both type and image could be swapped and
> animated at will.
>
> But once again, reality dawns and I go through the old ritual of banging my
> head against the wall because I realize I'm going to have to build all the
> imagery as animated GIFs.
>
> If only MC supported object translucency, I wouldn't have to jump through
> hoops every time I do this type of project.
>
> Meanwhile, the MetaCard slogan, nay, rallying cry, keeps echoing through my
> head: "There's a better way to do that."
>
> I'm still waiting for that better way.
I can think of two of them:
1) use a Mac (inks *are* supported there)
2) use Flash, either by itself or in a player object with QT.
We are planning to add support for ink effects, but at least at first
this would only work for images. Doing it for text, let alone
anti-aliased text, would be an order of magnitude more difficult and
so is not even in the realm of possibility for the foreseeable
future. Unless of course you can convince Microsoft to build this
into the Win32 API, in which case you'll have it right away ;-)
Regards,
Scott
> Regards,
>
> Scott
>
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> Scott Rossi Tactile Media - Multimedia & Design
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