Flash Text Anti-Aliasing

The Flash text rendering engine that provides clear, high-quality text rendering in Flash (FLA) documents and published SWF files. The Anti-alias for Readability setting makes text more legible, particularly at small font sizes. Custom anti-aliasing lets you specify the thickness and sharpness of fonts used in individual text fields.

High quality anti-aliasing is automatically enabled whenever you publish to Flash Player 8 or later, and Anti-Alias For Readability or Custom Anti-Alias is selected. Anti-Alias For Readability may cause a slight delay when you load Flash SWF files, especially if you are using four or five different character sets in the first frame of a Flash document. High quality anti-aliasing may also increase Flash Player’s memory usage. Using four or five fonts, for example, can increase memory usage by approximately 4 MB.

When the publish setting of your file is Adobe® Flash® Player 8 or later, and Anti-Alias For Readability or Custom Anti-Alias is your chosen anti-aliasing option, high-quality anti-aliasing applies to the following:

• Untransformed text that is scaled and rotated

  Note: Although the text can be scaled or rotated, it must remain flat (that is, untransformed). For example, if you skew the fonts or otherwise manipulate the font shapes, Anti-Alias for Readability is automatically disabled.

• All font families (including bold, italic, and so on)

• Display sizes of up to 255 points

• Exporting to most non-Flash file formats (GIF or JPEG)

  High quality anti-aliasing is disabled under the following conditions:

• Flash Player 7 or earlier is the selected version of Flash Player.

• An anti-aliasing option other than Anti-Alias for Readability or Custom Anti-Alias is selected.

• Text is skewed or flipped.

• The FLA file is exported to a PNG file.