Text in Flash Player looks crap only on my computer

[tu meke]

Hi there, i have a news section on my website (not yet live) that has been
designed in flash. The rest of the text on the site is in HTML. The text in the
flash section looks really bad on my screen. Some of the text is thick and
blurry and some is thin and none of it looks like the HTML text (although it is
all arial). After some testing on both Mac and PC i have discovered it only
looks like this on my computer! Flash Player works fine on other websites. Does
anyone know if there are some local Flash Player settings i can change or if
there is anything else i am missing?
Obviously this is only a problem when i am showing my website to someone on my
computer (a possible scenario as i am a designer and it contains my portfolio).

My computer is a Mac Powerbook G4 1.67 GHz PowerPC 1GB DDR SDRAM
Browser is Safari and i have Flash Player 9 installed (i have tried
uninstalling and reinstalling)

Thanks

[Darren McNally - Adobe]

Hi tu meke,

With Flash you can embed the fonts using the Property Inspector. For example,
select Arial and choose Embed and Auto Fill. This will guarantee that the fonts
look the same on all systems, however it will add to the file size.

If you would prefer not to embed the fonts for some reason, here is another
thought. The difference that you are noticing may be due to the Fonts Smoothing
Style selected on your Macintosh. Open System Preferences and select
Appearance. At the bottom, you can change the Font smoothing style. Try
changing this setting and see if it helps.