Dynamic and Input text

Device fonts in Flash

You have been working before with Text in Flash and have seen many advantages of using fonts in Flash environments. Texts written in Flash are much more versatile if compare to traditional HTML because they are vectorized when compiled to SWF file and don't depend on font set on client's computer.

However by the same reason Flash fonts are more difficult to read from screen especially small sizes. It's happen because fonts in traditional HTML are rendered by client's browser to optimize them for the screen resolution. They are truly fonts, and Flash texts are still good picture that is having no idea about client's settings.

But this problem is very easy to overcome. If you need to display a sharp text you may check a box in Properties inspector for Fonts called Device Font. It will use fonts from clients computer.

Compare text on the example below. You will see that Arial device looks almost like vectorized Flash text but much sharper. Quite rare Floridan Cyr font may be rendered by your computer unexpectedly – if you don't have this font on your computer.

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