[thelist] Flash & Gif

Chris Houston. chris at nabumedia.com
Fri Aug 3 05:44:36 CDT 2001


Sharon said that Mark Ottenberg said:
> a) avoid "blending" (that is, make your text pixels as "one-color solid"
> as possible, either using the background color or the text color to fill
> in any pixels that are anti-aliased). This makes them "blocky" which
> reduces file size. Space between the letters compresses better if the
> characters are solid (blocky).

This has got to be wrong. Flash stores the vector outline of each letter
from each font it's going to be using, then renders it on the clients
machine. Whether the file says "write these letters and antialias them" or
"write these letters and don't antialias them" isn't going to make any
difference to the file size, per se. It might make the rendering speed
higher, though.

The current trend towards little, aliased fonts isn't technologically based,
it's fashion based.

Chris Houston.

Creative Director
Nabu Media






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