Re: [Flashcoders] Bitmap text (no anti-alias) still aliasing?

r of these is the cause for your situation, but its worth a try. Phil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of matt stuehler Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 8:52 AM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: SPAM-LOW: Re: [Flashcoders] Bitmap tex

Re: [Flashcoders] Bitmap text (no anti-alias) still aliasing?

lashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: SPAM-LOW: Re: [Flashcoders] Bitmap text (no anti-alias) still aliasing? Alias, My apologies - I was a little premature in my last post. It looks like Flash doesn't properly calculate the height of static text field using a device font IF you select "U

Re: [Flashcoders] Bitmap text (no anti-alias) still aliasing?

On Jun 13, 2007, at 10:51 AM, matt stuehler wrote: In other words, if you're using a device font, Flash will properly calculate the height if the font is _sans, _serif, or _typewriter (which is exactly what you suggested); but not if you use another font. This little bit of code properly calc

Re: [Flashcoders] Bitmap text (no anti-alias) still aliasing?

Alias, My apologies - I was a little premature in my last post. It looks like Flash doesn't properly calculate the height of static text field using a device font IF you select "Use device fonts" and select a particular font. However, if you use font = "_sans" as you suggested (which forces the

Re: [Flashcoders] Bitmap text (no anti-alias) still aliasing?

Alias, Many thanks for that suggestion! As you suggested, using device fonts does in fact fix the anti-aliasing problem However, giving up the ability to use masks seems like a pretty serious compromise. Another problem this causes - I need to be able to determine the height of these text fiel

Re: [Flashcoders] Bitmap text (no anti-alias) still aliasing?

Don't use the "bitmap text" option in the properties tab, set the font to "_sans", "_serif", or "_typewriter" instead. This will force flash to use the machine's local device fonts instead. The only drawback with this is that you may run into issues with masking/fading the text, but it should be m

[Flashcoders] Bitmap text (no anti-alias) still aliasing?

All, I'm working on an application with lots of long text content using 11pt fonts. To enhance readability, I'm using Bitmap text (no anti-alias). However, in long (tall) static text blocks, PARTS of the text are aliasing. In other words, the first few paragraphs will have have no anti-alias, th