CP7: Blurred text in captions and smart shapes

I've noticed the blurred text in Captivate for some time now. I continue to read various workaround remedies that have worked in previous versions, although many are no longer applicable. In the past I have highlighted the text, added bullets and other remedies. In Captivate 7, these no longer work, and deselecting the anit-aliasing of text is no longer an option. I am running CP7 64 bit, on Win 7 Enterprise 64 bit OS. I am publishing to HTML5 output. My project has several navigation buttons that are Smart Shapes with Arial 14 Narrow text. While all of my caption text is predictably blurred, as CP always blurs the text to some degree, the smaller fonts in my smart shape are simply unprofessional looking.

After reviewing the last 10 years of posts about blurry text in CP outputs, I've eliminated all the options I found, and confirmed one odd remedy. I found an old post that indicated inserting a "dummy", non-functional variable name at the bottom of the text area will sharpen the text. This sounded so crazy, I had to try it. Amazingly, it works, but the bad result is that it jumbles the text in the caption or smart shape so much that it's difficult to get the text to look correct when published. Oh, and you MUST publish it to see the result. Previewing the text looks good, but it's whacked out beyond reason when it's published.

• Can anyone share a definite fix to resolve the blurry text in CP outputs?
• Additionally, if there are any programming gurus in the community, I'd like to understand how inserting a variable at the end of text sharpens that text in the published output. Sorry, I am a geek and I have to understand how in the world that would make a difference.
• Can anyone confirm this problem has been fixed in CP9. I want to recommend CP9 purchase for my corporation, but I have seen multiple posts for blurry text and other bugs related to CP8.

Many Thanks!

Brent Whittaker