Fonts don't look good in Illustrator like they do in Flash

I have a pretty general question that I've been wondering about for some time now: for some reason, my text does not look great in Illustrator. It does not appear smooth and beautifully rendered like it does in flash; instead it looks a bit dull and somewhat pixelated at 100%. Theoretically, they should both look the same, considering they are both vector-based programs, correct? Or am I doing something wrong in Illustrator (a viewing setting perhaps) that is preventing my text from looking as smooth as it does in Flash?

Theoretically, they should both look the same, considering they are both vector-based programs, correct?
No. What for? You are confusing preview in AI with the final render for on-screen display in Flash. Think: When you work in a 300dpi doc, is there even a point in trying to get smooth display on a 96dpi computer monitor, when all it means is that in print it wil lagain look different? AI's preview is an approximation transposed to screen space, nothing more. Arguably, it would be possible to antialias it a bit better, but then performance also becomes an issue, and you wouldn't wanna trade interactive feedback for soem smooshed pixels, would you? I certainly wouldn't when even pretty standard illustrations have usually more lines, points and edges than a comparable Flash file. Screen update times could grow exponentially. Likewise, you would not want the AI team to even implement Flash's 7 different antialiasing methods, when 90% of users never would use them and just the opposite, even web designers long for creating better pixel-perfect content without any antialiasing. In addition, this highly optimised code may work on a web interface at 72dpi, but would go to its knees with 300 dpi and beyond.... It's really two completely different things we are talking about here.
Mylenium

Similar Messages

Fonts don't look as good (even on an imac)?

Is it just me or do the fonts look worse on snow leopard? I just installed it, and I first noticed it in Mail -- all the text for my mailboxes look a little harder to read. The text rendering just doesn't seem to look as good. Anyone else notice this?
I read some posts about how certain monitors don't report that they are LCD's, and so the font smoothing isn't used. But I am on a 24" imac and it says it is using the LCD font smoothing. It just looks worse.
Anyway it could be my imagination -- I might try to compare them side by side and see for sure.
Bob

There have been some reports to that, specifically for external (Dell) monitors. I can't vouch for the following, so proceed at your own risk:
http://rubenerd.com/font-smoothing-snow-leopard/
Joe

Fonts don't look like preview

Fireworks 8 -- PC
My text looks very unclear after export. However, they look
great in the 4-up preview windows in any of the export formats.
This is with a wide variety of fonts (including basics like
Ariel, Verdana, etc.) and with or without bold, italics, etc. My
font sizes are in the 16 to 30 size range. It also doesn't seem to
matter which anti-alias setting I use.
If I go all the way to 96 font size with anti-alias, then I
can get clear fonts.
This has happened with every graphic I have created since
buying this application about 1 month ago. For most of that time, I
thought it was either just part of the deal or I didn't know how to
tweak the settings. Then I realized that they looked great in the
preview window with various export formats, so it must be something
else.

Are you viewing the previews at 100%? As Alex said you can
also set
Selective Quality for jpegs, which can help preserve text
quality.
Jim Babbage - .:Community MX:. & .:Adobe Community
Expert:.
Extending Knowledge, Daily
http://www.communityMX.com/
CommunityMX - Free Resources:
http://www.communitymx.com/free.cfm
.:Adobe Community Expert for Fireworks:.
news://forums.macromedia.com/macromedia.fireworks
news://forums.macromedia.com/macromedia.dreamweaver
Andy -- Chicago wrote:
> Fireworks 8 -- PC
>
> My text looks very unclear after export. However, they
look great in the 4-up
> preview windows in any of the export formats.
>
> This is with a wide variety of fonts (including basics
like Ariel, Verdana,
> etc.) and with or without bold, italics, etc. My font
sizes are in the 16 to
> 30 size range. It also doesn't seem to matter which
anti-alias setting I use.
>
> If I go all the way to 96 font size with anti-alias,
then I can get clear
> fonts.
>
> This has happened with every graphic I have created
since buying this
> application about 1 month ago. For most of that time, I
thought it was either
> just part of the deal or I didn't know how to tweak the
settings. Then I
> realized that they looked great in the preview window
with various export
> formats, so it must be something else.
>
>
>

Fonts don't look the same when published...

why is it when i publish my site to a folder the fonts on some pages do not appear the same as they show in iweb...
i have 8 pages...
home page looks fine just as in iweb...
the remaining pages have a bolder font and doesn't look nice...
i have checked and double checked every page and all fonts are the same...
helvetica size 15...
why is this happening...?
what can i do...?

In iWeb click on +Help > iWeb Help+. In the pane that opens you'll see a search bar in the upper right corner. Copy & paste the following into it:
If text or a shape gets converted to a graphic
...and hit Enter. That same phrase should appear in the resulting list of +Help Topics+. Double-click it.
Follow the steps outlined under +"To identify items that will be converted to graphics when published:"+
...Do yellow badges appear on the text you're having problems with? If so, your text is being converted to graphics — to view the fonts least likely to be converted, click the Fonts button in the lower-right corner. In the Font panel under Collections, click Web.
On the other hand, if yellow badges don't appear then this may apply:
+"...my text boxes were too small, so a lot of my formatting got messed up when I published the site."+ — Quoted from this old thread:

Vector Art & Fonts Don't Look Crisp After Final Render

I'm using AE CS3.
I've imported a few Illustrator files that contain vector art & regular text into my After Effects project.
It's basically a NTSC 720 x 480 project (0.9).
My composition looks very crisp and great when I preview it at full resolution.
However, after I render my composition to NTSC DV 720 x 480 AVI - the vector art and text doesn't look as crisp anymore.
I'm wondering if there is a setting I should check on before rendering (I rendered it at the best quality). Perhaps I should render to an uncompressed AVI file?

>Perhaps I should render to an uncompressed AVI file?
Well, you better... DV AVI is evil. Unless you really cannot avoid DV, always render to some uncompressed or only mildly compressed format. Premiere and otehr editing suites handle the conversion to DV/HDV way better than you ever could hope to achieve in AE. Also make sure you adjusted your levels correctly. A lot of DV "blurriness" is simply caused by illegal colors which crap out the transcoder.
Mylenium

Why do Fonts need to be patched to look good?

Don't get me wrong, this should really not be a rant or so. I'm just curious: Obviously, there are some font configurations which look good and some which don't look so nice. For example, many users don't like default configurations (aliasing problems...) but do like alternative ones like infinality.
So why aren't the good-looking configurations set by default in many distributions? What is the advantage in the default configurations used instead?

flannelhead wrote:the Adobe rasterizer only works with CFF fonts (which TrueType fonts are not)
Yup, that's why it's of little interest
I didn't really like it...
look better on that than Infinality
You guys are forgetting, or never bothered to check in the first place, that Infinality is not just what bohoomil pre-packaged for you. It's got a ton of tweakability, so EXPERIMENT with it to see what you like, e.g.:
export INFINALITY_FT_FILTER_PARAMS="14 20 32 20 14"
export INFINALITY_FT_FRINGE_FILTER_STRENGTH="30"
export INFINALITY_FT_AUTOHINT_VERTICAL_STEM_DARKEN_STRENGTH="20"

Fonts don't print with Font Book

Hi,
Fonts I load in Font Book are looking fine on screen but they don't print - I have to put them directly in the Fonts folder (in the System folder) to do so. My printer is a Lexmark E120n is that matters.
What should I do to get them to print using Font Book?
Thanks for your help!

It turns out the problem was with that certain printer. The floor model and other models and makes works fine. the Brother support person was an idiot, and would not think outside the box. Luckily the guys at Apple and Office Depot did.

Fonts don't work correctly when opening illustrator 5 eps in illustrator 6

When I open an eps file in illustrator 6, which I received from our graphic designer (who is using 5), the fonts don't work correctly. We have purchased VistaSans and when I try to open file, it says fonts not found so they have been substituted, but when I open illustrator, the fonts are there. When I try to change text from VistaSansReg to VistaSansSCBold the bold doesn't apper in illustrator or when saving to PDF - however, when you click the changed text in illustrator, it does show the bold font has been selected.

HI,
It is an open type font so should work, but it looks like the problem is that it hasn't installed correctly in Illustrator. I am using Windows 7 so right-clicked fonts and clicked install. Fonts appear in fonts area of control panel and install in disabled when font is viewed. they work correctly in other apps, such as Word
When I vew the VistaSans fonts (in existing file) in Illustrator, they appear in the fonts drop-down, but have an asterisk beside them (i.e. not installed) so how do I get them to install correctly in Illustrator? Font isn't appearing in Photoshop either.

Working on my page, everything looks good in iweb, I publish, I go check on the internet, and the fonts on the page go crazy. iweb doesn't show it that way. Why is this happening?

Working on my page, everything looks good in iweb, I publish, I go check on the internet, and the fonts on the page go crazy. iweb doesn't show it that way. Why is this happening?

Looks OK to me - is this what it should look like?:
Try clearing your brower's cache, and/or using another browser.

How can I adjust the contrast of video on my MacBook Pro Retina so they don't look like they were filmed with an old sock over the lens?

I'd like to watch movies and TV shows, downloaded from iTunes or Amazon, on my MacBook Pro Retina, but they all look like they were filmed with an old sock over the lens. Daytime sequences look muddy, and night time sequences are incomprehensible with anything but the brightest objects rendered as black. I can watch the same files on my old MacBook Air and everything looks right, but no manner of tweaking seems to let me watch movies on my new machine.
I've tried adjusting the gamma. It's a bit better when gammas is set to 1.0, but I can't seem to set a gamma less than one. I tried using the Accessibility Contrast control, but it just lowers the contrast, swallowing my desktop into the dark abyss. I tried Applecare, but they don't have a clue. I tried the Apple Store. The "genius" confirmed that it is indeed impossible to watch movies shot anywhere but in the brightest sunlight on a MacBook Pro Retina, and it isn't just my machine, but every similar model in the store. He arranged for someone who really understands color profiles to give me a call, but Apple seems to have dropped the ball on this.
Is there some tool for stretching out the darker grays in Apple video? I don't want calibration. My impression is that my display, like the dozens I checked at the Apple Store are calibrated to make all dimmer grays appear completely black. I want uncalibration so I can actually see what is going on in the movies even if something is in a light shadow or shot at night. Hollywood has lots of trained technicians who can light and shoot night scenes that are quite comprehensible. I've watched a number of such scenes on my old MacBook Air. Now, I'd like to enjoy their artistry on my MacBook Pro Retina.

http://www.ifixit.com/ has directions for do it yourself. Also look at PRAM battery instructions, as sometimes this can fix optical drive issues.
You can get external or internal drives from http://www.macsales.com/
I also suggest in the future, take care of this problem while it is still under warranty. It may have cost you nothing.
See this FAQ* on what may be at issue:
http://www.macmaps.com/cdrfailure.html

I just bought a 13inch mac book with retina display. When Im using adobe illustrator or photoshop, the fonts and designs look pixelated! How can I fix this?

I just bought a 13inch mac book with retina display.
2.4GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor with 3MB shared L3 cache. Version 10.9.4 / OS X Mavericks
When Im using adobe illustrator or photoshop, the fonts and designs look pixelated!
How can I fix this?

WOW!!
That was great to hear.
I have just read this tread: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1626784?start=0&tstart=0
So therefore I was worry about Illustrator which I use most of all programs.
Thank you !!

Slideshow in iMovie - images w/movement don't look as good as in iPhoto

I love iPhoto with the Ken Burns effect, but I had problems that when an image would dissolve up, the position would be in an undesirable spot (image might be with a person's head cut off). I tried working around the problem by giving the images very very wide black borders. But this didn't help. Also, when I've burned an iPhoto slideshow to a DVD using iDVD, the image quality fell off (perhaps because TVs aren't as good as my monitor).
By going to iMovie it was great to get all the controls I wanted, BUT I find the image quality not as good, even on my HD Cinema Display. Is this too be expected? I tried changing the frame rate, but that hasn't helped. I was concerned that it might be because the image file size was too large, but I have ruled that out (I think).
I created a quicktime movie and still the images don't look nearly as good as they do in iPhoto with Ken Burns effect (so it's not about the movement and my screen resolution and refresh rate - unless iMovies is changing things).
I would so greatly appreciate any information on this. Whether it is to confirm that, yes - through I photo, slideshow images look better. Or, to say "iMovie slideshow images should look great - you need to change these settings....."
Thanks so much fo your help, Leo
Powermac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.1)

I'm not sure, but maybe you hit on something I'm
doing wrong. I've not taken any care in how I've
been getting images into iMovie. I've taken in
images through the clips section and I've taken it
through an ALBUM in iPhoto. Are you saying I need to
have the images in a slide show in iphoto so that I
can import them from there with Ken Burns on - that
does something to the images!? Wow.
Note that the Ken Burns Effect in iPhoto has nothing whatever to do with the Ken Burns Effect in iMovie. Configuring the KBE in iPhoto affects ONLY that iPhoto slideshow or one of its slide, not the iPhoto images you import to iMovie. (Actually, slides in iPhoto slideshow slides are never imported to iMovie, only the images in non-slideshow albums.)
As photos are imported into iMovie the iMovie KBE is applied to those images using the KBE settings you've configured in iMovie.
ALSO - I have to be honest - I never knew that Ken
Burns was customizable! If this is the case, doesn't
it mean that KB doesn't have too be random. Can't I
establish start and end points for the whole show and
it will be repeatable?!
Yes, making them all the same is possible, but variety is the spice of life, so you probably don't want all slides of the iPhoto slideshow to look the same. I find the random KBE in iPhoto surprisingly effective.
It's also surprisingly easy to spot the slides where it's probably going to point at someone's shoes or do something that looks ridiculous. Configure those manually.
I suppose the big draw back of so carefully
programming a slideshow in iPhoto is that you can't
save it to a disc.
Actually, you CAN save it to disk. Export the slideshow to iDVD and iDVD puts a copy of your slideshow — as a MOVIE — in the Movies folder. You can import that movie to iMovie if you want. Or use QuickTime Pro to export it in a compressed format to share with friends.
But before I give up on iMovie (and the hours and
hours I've spent in making this show), perhaps I'm
missing a good way of saving the project. I have
made an iMovie project which plays in iMovie and is
labeled as DV-NTSC and I've created a quicktime .mov.
Is there a better option? You say "The DV is better
than you see displayed in iMovie". So is there a
way I should play this DV project in another
application that would be better?
You can export the iMovie project to any kind of QuickTime movie you want, large, small or anything in between. High quality, low quality or whatever.
Thanks so much for your help. This has been great
help.
You're welcome. Good luck on your project.
Karl

Illustrator files don't look right in pdf

Hi! I created some pdfs from a Quark 7 file, using Acrobat 8. In the Quark file are eps files created in Illustrator CS3. I did this at work on a PC and everything looked great. When I tried to do the exact same thing at home... all programs are the same and it's the same file... the ONLY difference is that I'm on a Mac... the charts look wimpy and faded in the new pdf. The graphics are fine... it's the text in the eps that doesn't look good. Any thoughts as to what is going on and how to fix it? Thanks.
Julie
PS Some of the text in the Quark file looks wimpier too... but not too bad. Just thought I'd mention it...

Check your Acrobat Page Display settings in Preferences. They may be set different than the Windows computer. Look at the settings in the "Rendering" area.

Cyrillic font in google and some other sites like Wikipedia are looking different in Win XP and Win 7

Good day, gents.
Yesterday I installed 4 beta on my desktop after succesfull using it on laptop. But when i opened google (and some other sites) i found that fonts are looking different with the same settings. Here screens:
http://i52.tinypic.com/33x78eb.jpg - Laptop, Win XP Professional SP3 (Looks good)
http://i56.tinypic.com/5nw47l.jpg - Desktop, Win 7 Ultimate (Looks terrible, those Times New Roman makes me mad)
I tried reinstall, clearing cashe. In Firefox 3.6.9 on Desktop fonts was normal.
How to resolve this ? Thanks and sorry for my English.

Disable (remove the check-mark) in<br />
Tools > Options > Advanced : General: Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
See also this mozillaZine Forums threwad.
Direct2D & DirectWrite HW Acceleration For Minefield - Info: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1775755

Having trouble making a Facebook "Like Us" plugin look good.

Hello.
I'm having troulble getting a Facebook "Like Us" link to look good on a site I built. It seems that no matter where I insert the code for the plugin it just doesn't fit or look right.
Here's the site: http://friendsoflafayette.org/index.html
If I put the plugin in the rightside div it extends past the box. If I put in in the footer it isn't centered. As you can tell, I'm not a master with code and aren't sure how to make this fit properly. Ideally I'd like to put it in the rightside div but is there a way to line-break the text "American Friends of Lafayette" or somehow shorten the width to make it fit the div box? Alternately, how can I center the plugin in the footer so at least it looks presentable?
Any suggestions welcome.
Best Regards,
John

In code view, try changing this:
<div class="fb-like-box fb_iframe_widget" data-href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-American-Friends-of-Lafayette/168772073195787" data-width="292" data-height="200" data-show-faces="false" data-stream="false" data-header="false">
to this with an inline style noted in red:
<div class="fb-like-box fb_iframe_widget" style="margin-left: 35%" data-href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-American-Friends-of-Lafayette/168772073195787" data-width="292" data-height="200" data-show-faces="false" data-stream="false" data-header="false">
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
http://alt-web.com/
http://twitter.com/altweb

Fonts don't look good in Illustrator like they do in Flash

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for