When you make graphic text, you are creating a bitmap graphic that looks like text, not actually text. Because that bitmap has only one way of presenting itself, it will look the same on all devices. (Well, it will look really crappy on high-dpi devices like Retina screens, but that’s a separate issue.) When you create HTML text, you provide a set of instructions to the browser to display a certain font, size, and text. But the browser takes a lot of initiative, and has various environmental factors (whether it is suffering under Windows, for example) also contribute to the way that the final bit of text will appear. When you design for the Web, you realize that this will happen, and you build flexibility into your design so that the precise number of lines of text or inter-line spacing is not critical to the overall display of your page. What you get for this effort is a page that looks great on Retina screens, takes up a microscopic fraction of the file size of the equivalent bitmap graphic, and is searchable, highlightable, dictionary-able, etc. Perhaps most importantly, you get a page that can be zoomed up so a person with limited vision can still read it, or read aloud by a screen reader application to a completely blind visitor.
If things are overlapping on your page, that’s a clear sign that you need to either simplify your design (fewer boxes) or rationalize your design with inline construction. When you just draw boxes on the page, you get a real hash when the font size is enlarged. When you design the flow of text and use inline construction to reinforce your layout, you get perfection on any screen, at any font size.
Walter
On Jan 8, 2014, at 9:33 PM, Hoffkids wrote:
Hi all,
I had quite a bit of graphic text boxes that I changed to HTML text.
As soon as I did this, I noticed that the way it looks sometimes in FW is NOT how it looks on the page on the internet once it is uploaded.
I have a box of HTML text and all is good, but then once uploaded the box sometimes gets longer, runs into other items, text is larger than I thought, etc.
I actually went back to graphic text for some because what I saw in FW was what I saw on the internet page.
Can someone tell me why html text in FW (and even in preview) is not always exactly the same on the web page?
Thanks,
Barry
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