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phdmail
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July 27, 2020
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Poor font rendering

  • July 27, 2020
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For a product that is supposed to be for creating presentations targeted at web sites,

Why is the Cspticate font rendering so bad?

Why does it even render fonts for presentation, and not output the HTML with font formatting (e.g. CSS)?

The output of fonts doesn't seem to have any Anti-Aliasing, and looks terrible.

I've tried adjusting the project render quality, but that makes no difference.

If I output as a scaleable Html output, the whole output slides look all blurry!

I've tried standard system fonts (Arial, Tahoma etc.), and also tried using Adobe Fonts, but they are all as bad as each other!

Am I missing something or is that the best Captivate can do?

 

 

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RodWard
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RodWardCommunity Expert
Community Expert
July 28, 2020

In standard Non-Responsive courses from Captivate the text shown on slides is converted to raster images.  Resizing then will cause loss of resolution.  Only when it is displayed at exactly 100% will it look crisp.  Responsive courses handle the text differently.  So if the text is bothering you, try experimenting with reponsive instead of Scaleable HTML.

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phd3
Known Participant
July 28, 2020

I don't normally select the "scaleable HTML" option, just output at 100%, but it still looks terrible, the scalable output just looks blurry.

I'll give the Responsive course option a try, and see how that works out. Thanks.

Can a non-responsice course be easily converted to a responsive course, or do I need to start again?

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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July 28, 2020

Switching to Fluid Boxes or Breakpoint views workflows is not something done in a breeze... 

There is still the 'old' workaround to force each text to become dynamic. That means inserting an empty user variable, which will force each text container to be rendered at runtime instead of being converted to an image.

Careful: use only websafe or Adobe fonts in that case. The image conversion was meant to make insertion of system fonts possible for static text.

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