Anti Alias

Forum|Forum|19 years ago
November 2, 2006
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Hello.

How do I stop the text from anti aliasing on question slides? Is this possible? I have been placing questions in text entry boxes until now but I cannot do that for matching questions... The anti aliasing is really poor.

Thanks in advance

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Anonymous

Ok, I know this thread is an oldie, and I had always just assumed that my question text was going to look crappy. But I just stumbled across a fix to the anti-aliasing question text issue that made me wonder if anyone else was hip to this.
So I have a background image on my question slide that has multiple colors, so I was hesitant to try highlighting the text, and trying to just highlight a caption as white was unsuccsessful. It just wouldn't take.
BUT... I highlighted the whole caption gray (#C0C0C0), and clicked "Apply." THEN I could select all the text, highlight it as white (#FFFFFF) and it took. While the captions show the highlight in edit mode, once I preview/publish it, you don't see the white highlighting, and it looks magical and wondrous.
(For the life of me, I can't imagine WHY it behaves this way. Guess it's one more "undocumented feature" of Captivate.)

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DilbertG

Adobe Employee

HI gunthead,

Yes it seems an issue with the Question slides. And it seems an issue only with the answer texts. The Question title, failure captions all other come fine, if you use highlight color.

Though there is a workaround for this, and is applicable for mostly all the question slides, except for Matching. You can use this on matching also, but then you will not be able to drag the text, which it seems you want.

Still I would have probably used following.

1. Create the question slide.
2. Delete all the texts from the answers.
3. Create transparent captions, with highlight color same as slide background color.
4. Keep these captions inplace of answer texts.

But as I said, its mostly applicable for the slides where text does not move, but in Matching question, you would like to drag the text.

thanks

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guntheadAuthor

Known Participant

Hi guys.

Yes I still wish that the answers be 'draggable'. I will try exporting and importing into flash. It seems a shame that there is this anti-alias problem as I feel it depreciates the professional look of the movies.

Thanks for all your help again, have a nice afternoon.

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Anonymous

Hello gunthead,

I share your frustration and whilst I don't tend to do this I am going to stick my neck out here and say that I think that this is a bug and therefore would encourage you to file it as such using the Adobe Bug and Feature Request Submission Form

I would also like to thank DilbertG for their excellent suggestion, this is a great workaround for most question slides.

Regards,
Mark

Captiv8r

Legend

Hi gunthead

If this is Captivate 1, I'm not sure. But if this is Captivate 2, you might want to try a solution offered up by fellow Adobe Community Expert Paul Dewhurst.

Click here to view Paul's solution.

Cheers... Rick

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guntheadAuthor

Known Participant

Hi.

Thanks for your quick reply.

I'm using captivate 2. That solution works fine for captions but doesn't work for text in question slides...

:(

Captiv8r

Legend

Hi gunthead

Hmmm, I just tested and it seems to work to prevent the anti-aliasing in question slides.

I Do notice, however, that it seems to also make the space a different color that sort of stands out. I further notice that I can apply background shading to all the text and it seems to make the anti-aliasing stop too. So one thought is to simply apply background shading to all the text. Just choose a color that closely matches the background.

Cheers... Rick

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