Macromedia flash 8-developing flash lite 2.x applications User Manual

Flash Lite rendering quality and anti-aliased text

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To select a font rendering method for a text field:

1.

Select a text field on the Stage.

2.

In the Property inspector, select one of the following options from the Font Rendering 
Method pop-up menu:

■

Select Use Device Fonts to have Flash Lite use a font that is available on the device. No 
font data is embedded in the published SWF file.

■

Select Bitmap text (no Anti-Alias) to have Flash Lite align font outlines along pixel 
boundaries, which makes small text appear crisp and clear. This option requires that 
Flash embed font outlines in the published SWF file (for more information, see 

■

Select Anti-Alias for Animation to have Flash Lite anti-alias the text field’s font 
according to the current rendering quality setting (for more information, see 

). This option requires that 

Flash embed font outlines in the published SWF file (for more information, see 

).

Flash Lite 1.0 and 1.1 do not support the Anti-Alias for Readability or Custom Anti-Alias 
font rendering options. Those rendering options are available only in Flash Player 8 and later 
on desktop computers.

Flash Lite rendering quality and 
anti-aliased text

Flash Lite has three rendering quality settings: low, medium, and high. The higher the 
rendering quality setting, the more smoothly and accurately Flash Lite renders vector outlines; 
a lower quality setting results in less smoothly drawn outlines. By default, Flash Lite rendering 
outlines using medium quality. You can control the rendering quality using the 

SetQuality

 

command (for more information, see 

 in Flash Lite 1.x ActionScript 

Language Reference).