Fonts different when published

[captiv8ted]

I have several projects where this situation occurs. I use the same font (Arial) on every slide; however, when the project is published some of the slides are obviously different. The font is more fuzzy and smaller when published than how it appears in the unpublished project. Help!

[Captiv8r]

Welcome to our community, captiv8ted

How are you viewing the output? Directly opening the .SWF or are you opening the .HTM page designed to present the output?

If you are directly opening the .SWF, this could explain it.

There could be other reasons as well. Are these captions transparent? If so, try adding a line and making it bulleted. Then size the caption so you don't see the bullet.

Yet one other possibility is the DPI setting for the PC the output is being played back on. Some change that and it affects the way things look.

Hopefully something here was helpful to you in some way... Rick

[captiv8ted]

Thank you for the reply. I have tried some of options that you mention based on other similar entries. I am publishing the files to the Web as eLearning. My confusion is that it is not every slide even though they are identical in captivate options. Text boxes, arial font, etc. I have had several folks from my development team view and they get the same result. Very frustrating.

[captiv8ted · Accepted solution]

Nevermind. Thank you for the info. Adding the bulleted line fixed the situation. Wish I knew root cause...

[Captiv8r]

Hi again

From what you wrote, I would conclude you were seeing anti-aliasing being applied to Transparent Caption types. In this case, the root cause is anti-aliasing.

Cheers... Rick

[Guest]

I have the sam problem with published text, but this solution doesn't work for me. Also the anti-aliasing is of. It gets even wearder, when I publish the same file on two different computers, teh result is also different, even with the same captivate settings.

[Captiv8r]

Hi Jan

Have you tried what I outlined in the thread linked below?

Click here to read the thread

Cheers... Rick