[osflash] [swfmill] pixel fonts wrong rendering

[Christian Giordano]

> What do you call pixel fonts ?

Vector fonts that has been created to simulate pixel rendering, so at 
their native size, or multiple of it, look crispy without anti'aliasing.

> Fonts that have been embedded from flash IDE ?

No, I'm using swfmill, no Flash IDE.

> Bitmap font ?
> Vector font that has been created to simulate pixel rendering ?

Think so, then I don't know if you would define this differently:

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/fontsforflash/fff-urban/

> If the rendering blurred them, that probably means that flash player 
> thinks they are vector based ones.

This shouldn't be a problem if set at the right size.

> Be sure to put them on stage, on pixel, not sub-pixel :
> _x=10, not _x=10.3

Of course there are no decimal in the position, have you ever used 
swfmill will pixel fonts? It's 7 years I use pixel fonts in Flash and 
never had so many problems. I thought it was a well known issue 
considering the different posts related that I found, for istance:

http://www.osflash.org/pipermail/swfmill_osflash.org/2006-January/000387.html

> BTW, consider using FlashType with swf8 :
> tf.antiAliasType
> tf.gridFitType

I will consider it, despite we wanted to be also flash7 compatible. If 
this is really a swfmill bug, I'm suprised that it hasn't been fixed yet.

Thanks, chr

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