I created a Slideshow using Slideshow Pro and Director. Because of the setup I used I put the type I wanted to have with the Freeway page in my Flash file.
Since Flash uses point sizes and renders text a bit differently than Freeway (pixel sizes), I had a hard time trying to match up the type with the rest of the type in my site. While I got pretty close, I was curious if there is an easier way to do this.
Also, what would happen if I wanted to put an html box with type over my swf file. Would this present browser problems?
If you look at my page at the link below, the area I’m talking about is to the right of the Gallery (Striders Gallery with the descriptive text. Right now this text is set as Static text in Flash).
Well you can change your Flash settings to use pixel font sizes. This setting is found probably in the Preferences. It might help with the rendering issues. I know I changed mine easily in Photoshop.
Also, I think that Flash items has a high z-index within a web page which means that the browser always places Flash content above anything else. Kind of like how if you placed a Flash item and a CSS Menu (w/drop-down’s) that the Flash item always sits over the CSS Menu drop-down’s no matter which item get’s placed first.
I would think that if you placed an HTML item or text over your chosen Flash item that it would cause browser problems.
Sometime around 6/4/09 (at 02:45 -0400) Dan J said:
Well you can change your Flash settings to use pixel font sizes.
This setting is found probably in the Preferences. It might help
with the rendering issues.
That would be the first thing to try. But watch out for the size of
the Flash content; you can specify something’s size, but it is
relative to the stage area. Change that in the web page design and
the content will scale with it. (Come to think of it, this could be a
way to fine-tune the type size…)
Also, I think that Flash items has a high z-index within a web page
which means that the browser always places Flash content above
anything else.
Actually, it is because plugins own the space in the web page that
they use and in most browsers (possibly all Windows ones) the browser
simply isn’t able to draw regular content over the top.
You don’t get any problems - you just don’t see the overlapping
browser-drawn content!
Well you can change your Flash settings to use pixel font sizes. This setting is found probably in the Preferences. It might help with the rendering issues. I know I changed mine easily in Photoshop.
Thanks for info, but I’ve looked in Flash preferences and unless I’m missing something, don’t see anything that gives me the choice of changing points to pixels. Using CS4.
K, well I couldn’t find it either. I did a little looking into it and couldn’t find anything other than creating a separate file for Flash and importing it into the package contents of the application folders. More of a long-drawn out hack, but I’ve usually just gone ahead and entered the PX amount in the text-entry area and it looked the same.
Course, I don’t use Flash that much and it may have just been blind luck.