About anti-aliasing text

Anti-aliasing lets you smooth the edges of onscreen text. The anti-aliasing options are particularly effective for rendering smaller font sizes. When anti-aliasing is enabled, all text in the current selection is affected. Anti-aliasing operates with text of all point sizes in the same way.

Anti-aliasing is supported for static, dynamic, and input text if the user has Flash Player 7 or later. It is supported only for static text if the user has an earlier version of Flash Player.

When using small text in a Flash document, keep in mind the following guidelines:

• Sans serif text, such as Helvetica or Arial, appears clearer at small sizes than serif text.

• Some type styles, such as bold and italic, can make text less legible at small sizes.

• In some cases, text appears somewhat smaller than text of the same point size in other applications.