heads-up on cross-platform text handling

[Steven Post]

A little idiosyncrasy I just discovered regarding how different
platforms handle fonts in an swf:

It seems that even if you embed your fonts, they are rendered slightly
differently -- not differently enough that you can look at an swf on two
different machines and see a difference, but ocassionally text will flow
differently on different machines (PC vs. Mac). This can cause problems
if you are concerned about the rag in left aligned text, and it can
cause orphans and widows now and then.

So, if you care what your text looks like, keep in mind that Flash ain't
Quark. Check your swf's on both platforms.

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[LOQUTUS]

You could always use the System.os info to set a version to Windos or Mac.


"Steven Post" <s.post@-SPAM-AWAY-number-10.gov.uk> wrote in message
news:s.post-4D73F4.01172908092003@netnews.attbi.com...

> A little idiosyncrasy I just discovered regarding how different
> platforms handle fonts in an swf:
>
> It seems that even if you embed your fonts, they are rendered slightly
> differently -- not differently enough that you can look at an swf on two
> different machines and see a difference, but ocassionally text will flow
> differently on different machines (PC vs. Mac). This can cause problems
> if you are concerned about the rag in left aligned text, and it can
> cause orphans and widows now and then.
>
> So, if you care what your text looks like, keep in mind that Flash ain't
> Quark. Check your swf's on both platforms.
>
> --
> S t e v e n P o s t
> s . p o s t @ n u m b e r - 1 0 . g o v . u k

[Steven Post]

Are you talking about Actionscript? I'm afraid I don't follow you...

In article <HcW6b.3282$PE6.608@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.n et>,
"LOQUTUS" <me@here.com> wrote:

>You could always use the System.os info to set a version to Windos or Mac.
>
>
>"Steven Post" <s.post@-SPAM-AWAY-number-10.gov.uk> wrote in message
>news:s.post-4D73F4.01172908092003@netnews.attbi.com...

>> A little idiosyncrasy I just discovered regarding how different
>> platforms handle fonts in an swf:
>>
>> It seems that even if you embed your fonts, they are rendered slightly
>> differently -- not differently enough that you can look at an swf on two
>> different machines and see a difference, but ocassionally text will flow
>> differently on different machines (PC vs. Mac). This can cause problems
>> if you are concerned about the rag in left aligned text, and it can
>> cause orphans and widows now and then.
>>
>> So, if you care what your text looks like, keep in mind that Flash ain't
>> Quark. Check your swf's on both platforms.
>>
>> --
>> S t e v e n P o s t
>> s . p o s t @ n u m b e r - 1 0 . g o v . u k

>
>

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