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tu meke
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April 29, 2007
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Text in Flash Player looks crap only on my computer

  • April 29, 2007
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Hi there, i have a news section on my website (not yet live) that has been designed in flash. The rest of the text on the site is in HTML. The text in the flash section looks really bad on my screen. Some of the text is thick and blurry and some is thin and none of it looks like the HTML text (although it is all arial). After some testing on both Mac and PC i have discovered it only looks like this on my computer! Flash Player works fine on other websites. Does anyone know if there are some local Flash Player settings i can change or if there is anything else i am missing?
Obviously this is only a problem when i am showing my website to someone on my computer (a possible scenario as i am a designer and it contains my portfolio).

My computer is a Mac Powerbook G4 1.67 GHz PowerPC 1GB DDR SDRAM
Browser is Safari and i have Flash Player 9 installed (i have tried uninstalling and reinstalling)

Thanks
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    Anonymous
    April 30, 2007
    Hi tu meke,

    With Flash you can embed the fonts using the Property Inspector. For example, select Arial and choose Embed and Auto Fill. This will guarantee that the fonts look the same on all systems, however it will add to the file size.

    If you would prefer not to embed the fonts for some reason, here is another thought. The difference that you are noticing may be due to the Fonts Smoothing Style selected on your Macintosh. Open System Preferences and select Appearance. At the bottom, you can change the Font smoothing style. Try changing this setting and see if it helps.
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