Introduction
Here is a quick tutorial for making aliased text in Flash. The are a few
ways of doing this, but this is the one I use the most. This tutorial
was written for Flash 5.
Open photoshop and make a 400px X 400px
(72 dpi) file that has the same background
color as your flash movie. Now type the text
you want using the same font and point size.
Make sure that anti-alias is set to "none".
Now with the text layer selected use the
Rectangular marquee tool in Photoshp to drag
a selection over your text. This does not
have to be even around it or anything - just
as long as it is all selected. Now go "Copy" and
make a new file - the size of this new file
will default to the size of the text you
just copied - you need to adjust this by
increasing the width and height by about
5 pixels each. Make sure the new file has
a transparent background.
With the new file at the front go "paste" and
you should see your text right in the middle
of your transparent background. Now go to
the File menu and choose "Save for Web".
Use these settings:
Click "OK" and save the file
with an appropriate name. The file that
gets produced looks like this:
You can now bring that gif into flash and
enjoy the funky goodness of aliased text
in Flash. Just in case you don't believe
here's a screen grab of that gif in a flash
swf.
I highly recommend that
you put this FS command in the first frame
of your flash movie.
fscommand("allowscale",false);
Otherwise your movie will scale up and
your text will look bad again.
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