Font appearance and bullets

Question

When a line is formatted using a bullet, the font size
appears to change when viewed in the published or compiled modes.
I've checked the font and it is the same. Try it and see. Add a
text caption and type something with no bullets. Add another text
caption and type something with bullets. Ensure the font style and
size is the same. Press F10 to publish the next 5 slides and you'll
see the two caption boxes font look different. They also look
different when you compile and publish the presentation. The
program makes it look like you're using two different font
sizes---an inconsistency....Anyone know how to remedy this?

Answer 1

Hi there
Most of the time we see issues related to using Transparent Text Captions because the Transparent captions anti-alias the text that is superimposed. When this occurs, if you contrast a typical Transparent Text Caption with a regular Text Caption, you think the Transparent Text Captions look "odd" because of the anti-aliasing.
Fellow Adobe Community Professional Paul Dewhurst made the first discovery of how to prevent the Transparent Text Captions from anti-aliasing the text. And that was to apply a background highlight on a space using a specific color.
Later we discovered that the presence of a bullet on one or more lines of text would cause anti-aliasing not to occur. So a common trick we suggest is to place the insertion point at the end of all the text and press Enter once or twice. Then apply bullets to the last line of text. Once you have done this, size the caption so the empty bulleted line isn't visible.
Captivate 3 introduced a new setting you can use to control this behavior for the whole project. Captivate 4 continues to offer the setting. Click Edit > Preferences > Project > SWF Size and Quality.
Cheers... Rick
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