Fireworks Text and Vectors Blurring

I always have this issue to think about text and vector handling of adobe fireworks....Look at these images
this text on the left has beeen compressed at jpeg settings of 80...and the other one at 90...text in the first image looks blurry and if zoomed in ,,one see some dark blurry shades or something....same is the case with the borders on the red rectange ....With the 90 compression...result is much better but image size increases a lot...Also there are times when the same shades appear around the edges of rectangles etc also...
I read this article
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/217/d6f2172a.html.... so is it of any help in this regard?
and text in photoshop at even 70 compression look better than in fireworks...Adobe claims to be using photoshop like text engine in fireworks cs4 but i am having this problem in cs4 version as well...I hope some gurus out here will help me out.

What you're seeing has nothing to do with the article you linked to.
JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group. The file format was designed for photographs or images where the luminance and color information varies slowly from one pixel to another. The compression technique represents the luminance and color information as a mathematical function, but it throws out the detail terms, according to the level of compression. The more compression/lower quality, the more detail representation is thrown out. This is why the format is called "lossy." You lose information when you save to this format. The less you compress an image (higher quality), the less information is lost, but the larger the file is. There's no one optimal compression level, each image must be optimized according to its own content.
In CS4, Fireworks is using the Photoshop text engine, but this is not the same as the export engine.
The design you have is not a photograph and the information does not vary slowly from one pixel to another in the essential areas. In fact, you have hard edges - around the text and at the borders. The JPEG compression scheme is not good at edges, unless you set the compression low/quality high.
In general, a graphic (non-photographic) image, is better off as a .gif or .png. Given that you have a gradient background behind your text, you might try a PNG24. Be careful when you export that you don't use the same name as your Fireworks source file. (One tip I picked up from this forum is to name my working Fireworks documents with.fw.png and then use the plain .png for the flattened, exported files.)

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http://www.aaronpenton.net/mask.html
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Inaccurate description. You are using the text as a clipping mask for the image. That's a lot of text, which means a very complex compound path with tens of thousands of points. No wonder this is slowing things down.
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metadata but I'm not sure what to look for. So far I've found that
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hang. It's especially bad since when AGS goes down a dependent
public web application hangs too.
The file works as expected in Photoshop, Acrobat, browsers,
and other apps. I'm pretty sure it's not infected since it passed
my virus scanner.
Could someone take a look at the JPEG and let me know if you
find anything? You can download it from my webserver.
Download
problem image

Well, my NOD32 antivirus says it's okay.
I opened the file in my text editor's binary mode, and
there's a "copyright (c) 1998 Hewlett-Packard Company" that I don't
see anywhere in the file info in Photoshop (
screen
capture). I wonder if the header is just messed up, somehow.
Maybe missing some delimiters so some records are larger than
expected. Can you re-save from the original?
I did a quick search for apps that would display the header
info, and found
a developer's
demo code project, but I think it's just source code.
Sorry I'm not very helpful.

HP Photo Creations - where's the text and graphics tabs?

I downloaded V 3.5 HOwever I can't seem to find the tabs for text, graphics, etc. All I can find is touchup, crop, red eye, and one or two others. But where is the text and graphics, and the other cool ones.? I'm sure I downloaded 3.5.
melodee007

Hi Melodee.
The additional editing tools appear with collage projects. When you choose basic prints, you'll see only the touchup tools (crop, image adjustments, red-eye, airbrush, tint).
In other words, to add text, borders, and graphics, choose Collage Prints instead of Prints. This link will take you there:
Collage Prints
There are quite a few cool effects in the touchup section, though.
Under Image Adjustments, click Advanced Controls at the bottom of the screen to try the Posterize effect.
Under Airbrush Effects, try the Rub Through, Blur, and Monochrome brushes.
Rub Through loads a photo in the background that's slowly revealed as you paint over the original photo. Blur is good for toning down distracting elements in your picture, making a snapshot look like a photo taken with a fancy lens. The photo below uses both those plus the Monochrome Brush.
Hope this helps,
RocketLife
RocketLife, developer of HP Photo Creations
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Soft/Haze text and grapics on LED LCDs with Firefox 4

Hello,
Ever since I started using Firefox 4 I had this problem. The text and are kind of very soft and blurred when viewed from a LED LCD. I initially thought this must be an isolated problem until I checked it with another brand new laptop.
It too had the same problem. And it really irritates me. And I can clearly see the difference when viewing the same web page from different browsers on the same PC.
You can even eliminate a graphic card issue as both of the laptops I tested use different graphics (vendor and models).
I don't know how many others faced this issue, but I would suggest looking into this.

I don't know how successful the images are but they show the difference I mean. One is taken from Chrome and the other from Firefox 4.
Edit:
Just previewed the images from FF, the difference is even more. Check this same page from another browser or an older version of FF.

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