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Exporting to most non-Flash Professional file formats (GIF or JPEG)
High-quality anti-aliasing is disabled under the following conditions:
Flash Player 7 or earlier is the selected version of Flash Player.
An anti-aliasing option other than Anti-Alias for Readability or Custom Anti-Alias is selected.
Text is skewed or flipped.
The FLA file is exported to a PNG file.
Work with text anti-aliasing
Flash Professional provides improved font rasterization that lets you specify the anti-aliasing properties for fonts. The improved anti-aliasing
capabilities are available only for SWF files published for Flash Player 8 or later. If you are publishing files for earlier versions of Flash Player, you
can only use the Anti-Alias For Animation feature.
Note: Anti-aliasing requires that the fonts used by a text field are embedded. If you do not embed the fonts, then the text field may appear blank
for classic text. If changing the Anti-Alias setting to Use Device Fonts causes the text to appear incorrectly, then you need to embed the fonts.
Flash automatically embeds the fonts for text that already exists in a text field created on the Stage. However, if you plan to allow the text to
change at runtime, you should embed the fonts manually. For instructions, see
Choose an anti-aliasing option for selected text
In the Property inspector, choose one of the following options from the Anti-Aliasing pop-up menu:
Use Device Fonts Specifies that the SWF file use the fonts installed on the local computer to display the fonts. Typically, device fonts are legible
at most font sizes. Although this option doesn’t increase the size of the SWF file, it forces you to rely on the fonts installed on the user’s computer
for font display. When using device fonts, choose only commonly installed font families.
You cannot use device fonts with rotated or vertical classic text. If you want to use rotated or vertical classic text, select another anti-alias mode
and embed the fonts used by the text field.
Bitmap Text (No Anti-Alias) Turns off anti-aliasing and provides no text smoothing. The text is displayed using sharp edges, and the resulting
SWF file size is increased because the font outlines are embedded in the file. Bitmap text is sharp at the exported size, but scales poorly.
Anti-Alias For Animation Creates a smoother animation by ignoring alignment and kerning information. This option creates a larger SWF file
because font outlines are embedded. For legibility, use 10-point or larger type when specifying this option.
Anti-Alias For Readability Uses the Flash text rendering engine to improve the legibility of fonts, particularly at small sizes. This option creates a
larger SWF file because font outlines are embedded. To use this option, you must publish to Flash Player 8 or later. (Do not use this option if you
intend to animate text; instead, use Anti-Alias For Animation.)
Custom Anti-Alias Lets you modify the font’s properties. Use Sharpness to specify the smoothness of the transition between the text edges and
the background. Use Thickness to specify how thick the font anti-aliasing transition appears. (Larger values cause the characters to look thicker.)
Specifying Custom Anti-Alias creates a larger SWF file because font outlines are embedded. To use this option, you must publish to Flash Player
8 or later.
Upgrade content for Flash 8 or later anti-aliasing
1. Open a FLA file created for use with Flash Player 7 or earlier.
2. In the Publish Settings dialog box (File > Publish Settings), select Flash Player 8 or Flash Player 9 from the Version pop-up menu.
3. Select the text field to apply the Anti-Alias For Readability or Custom Anti-Alias option to.
4. In the Property inspector, select Anti-Alias For Readability or Custom Anti-Alias from the Font Rendering Method pop-up menu.
Make classic text selectable
Static horizontal text or dynamic text can be selectable by users viewing your Flash Professional application. (Input text is selectable by default.)
After selecting text, the user can copy, cut, and then paste the text into a separate document.
1. Using the Text tool
, select the horizontal text that you want to make selectable.
2. In the Property inspector (Window > Properties), select Static Text or Dynamic Text.
3. Click Selectable .
Transforming text
You can create text effects by transforming text fields. For example, you can rotate, skew, flip, and scale text fields. (When you scale a text field as
an object, the Property inspector does not reflect increases or decreases in point size.) The text in a transformed text field can still be edited,
although severe transformations may make it difficult to read.
You can also animate text by using Timeline effects. For example, you can make text bounce, fade in or out, or explode.
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