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eegilbert
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February 25, 2009
Question

Antialiasing suddenly choppy

  • February 25, 2009
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I have been using TLF for weeks in an application I am building with great results. Today, for no apparent that I can identify, all text is rendering choppy. I tried updating the SWCs to the latest build posted recently in the forums, but that did not fix it. Any ideas, solutions, workarounds? The image below is from the StaticTextFlow.as example.

Ethan Brand screenshot

Thanks,
Eric
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eegilbertAuthor
Participant
March 7, 2009
I'm on a mac, so I can't help you with ClearType. I am running the latest release of Leopard (10.5.6) and Flash Player 10.

Here's a small section of the application I'm building in which the rendering looks good:

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/851/picture11b.png
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Anonymous
March 10, 2009
Brian--

I agree this is a tough one to attempt to reproduce consistently. I can't really provide any ideas, other than the fact that we've seen this on both Windows and Mac. I've experimented with the Mac equivalent of ClearType and tried all kinds of different settings and didn't see any change.

I don't know that I've seen this issue in recent builds. I can't confirm one way or another right now, but I will keep my eye out for it and ask our QA if they've noticed it at all recently. One thought that had crossed my mind was about uneven pixel values for line placement. Could that do something like this? I know that pixelation can occur with the flash drawing API when you attempt to draw on uneven pixels.

One other thing that I had noticed is that when this issue would be evident at scaleX/scaleY of 1.0, it looked pretty good when scaled up to a larger size. Same TextLines at the same coordinates...
brian_thomas2
Adobe Employee
brian_thomas2
Adobe Employee
February 26, 2009
Possibly something caused ClearType to be disabled on your system? Have you tried viewing the text on a different machine? What operating system are you running?
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Anonymous
March 2, 2009
We've seen this intermittently also, and we have not been able to pinpoint the source of the issue. We see exactly what the attached screenshot looks like. At this point, I am of the opinion that it's something more related to the OS or Flash Player. We've seen this on both Mac/Windows, but have also only tested with system fonts so far. Not sure if embedded would provide different results. Have not researched this at all, but was hoping that it is something that will work itself out as FP10/TLF evolve.

One thing that would be nice to see is a blog post about best steps to follow for sharpest text with FP10/TLF. Also, I know that there's a new font manager available that's supposed to provide higher quality embedded fonts, but I have not looked into it yet.
brian_thomas2
Adobe Employee
brian_thomas2
Adobe Employee
March 6, 2009
I'd like to try to reproduce this issue, but I'm not quite sure where to start. I'd appreciate any details on system/flash player configurations where you saw this.

Can one of you try turning off ClearType (Control Panel>>Display Properties>>Appearance>>Effects) and letting me know if this looks similar to the problem you are seeing?

Eric - Thanks for the screenshot. Would you be able to provide one without the bug for comparison purposes?
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