Text looks anti aliased -- bad

I created a menu in Photoshop CS. The text created using Photoshop looks jagged. Also looks bad when imported into Encore. Any ideas?

Guessing that the text you are talking about is in the highlight/subpicture layer, please have a look at
Must subpictures always be on top?

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this Anti-Aliasing or I think it is called text smoothing in English is really ugly and is driving me nuts. I cant turn it off. Even with TinkerTool up to size 144 it just doesnt help. Especially Safari loks horrible. Can it be turned off? Does anyone know if Leopard will be able to turn it off?
Cheers
Axel

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it happen on yahoo and may other sites It is the first time using the support forum any help would be great I included to screen captures to show what I am dealing with

Hello Cyphon224, try '''disabling graphics hardware acceleration'''.
You might need to restart Firefox in order for this to take effect, so save all work first (e.g., mail you are composing, online documents you're editing, etc.).
Then perform these steps:
#Open Firefox ''Options'' window (''Preferences'' on Mac or Linux) as follows:
#* In Firefox 29.0 and above, click the menu button [[Image:New Fx Menu]] and select ''Options'' for Windows or ''Preferences'' on Mac or Linux.
#* In Firefox 28.0 and previous versions, click the orange Firefox button at the top left, then select the "Options" button, or, if there is no Firefox button at the top, go to Tools > Options.
#In the Firefox Options (or Preferences) window, click the ''Advanced'' tab, then select ''General''.
#In the settings list, you should find the ''Use hardware acceleration when available'' checkbox. Uncheck this checkbox.
#Now, restart Firefox and see if the problems persist.
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Hi!
We recently bought catalyst and at first it seemed like a nice software, but the more I use it the more I get the feeling that this version should really have been called ver. 0.2 BETA or something similar There are so many problems and restrictions.. Now I come to my latest prob. Can I get text anti aliased? My client thinks the text looks really bad and I have to agree.
thanks!
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Hey guys, not sure if anyone else has experienced this problem, but today I turned on my machine and starting layout out some type and noticed that it looked alot chunkier than before. I had my anti-aliasing set to Mac LCD, which is usually spot on, but this particular text field looked terrible. I opened an old document and sure enough, I was right, the same type of anti-aliasing looked vastly different, even when both of the typfaces were exactly the same. I've had others open the file on their machines and have gotten the same problem. Now every time I create a new text field, I get chunky, terrible looking anti-aliasing, no matter what font I'm using. The only way I can get good looking type is by copying and pasting from old files. I've included an example file of what I mean. On the left is Trade Gothic, and on the right is Trajan (just to show it's not any particular font). The top versions of the fonts look beautiful clean, and anti-aliased properly. The bottom versions look chunky and blurry. Any help would be much appreciated!
Download the file here: http://cl.ly/3I2L2f163q3z

Same problem here.
This fixed it for me. Though, only temporarily:
1. Select all layers of your PSD file.
2. Select the type drop down > Anti-Aliasing > None
3. Save your file
4. Quit Photoshop
5. Re-open the file
6. Select all layers of your PSD again
7. Select the type drop down > Mac LCD (or desired aliasing)
8. Save the file
9. Continue working
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Some people may say "sure, Illustrator is not really meant for intensive bitmap work". However, with features like 'pixel preview' and 'snap to pixel', Illustrator has (generally) become a very viable tool for web design, and personally I much prefer it to Photoshop. It is also clear that Adobe intends it to be usable in this manner. So the anti-aliasing render bug is definitely a problem. Just surprised they didn't address it when CS5 was born.
I put up some example images on http://www.thesheep.co.uk/2011/06/24/illustrator-save-for-web-anti-aliasing-problems/ to illustrate the problem.
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Hi,
I am experiencing this same problem of pixelated gifs when I use the "save for web" dialog from Illustrator, but this solution has not worked for me. I have tried the trick of using type-optimized anti-aliasing, but it doesn't change the output at all. I've done this from within the "Image size" tab as well as through Effect>Rasterize>Options)Anti-aliasing: Type Optimized. My image is a logo made entirely from text, although for some of it I used "outline path", so I'm not sure if it still qualifies as text...I'm a newbie at this stuff, so the technical details are still quite opaque to me.
Does anyone know of a solution to this that does not require me to add Photoshop to my workflow?
I'm using Illustrator in CS5, version 15.0.2.
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Hello all,
This could be a bug... if so, I'd be happy to add it to Wade's bug list a few messages down the stream.
Here's what's happening: when I create small text using a very thin font (in this case, Helvetica Neue Light), the Pixel Preview gives a noticeably different anti-aliasing solution to the actual output from Save for Web & Devices. I'm attaching an original .AI file as well as a screenshots of what I'm getting in both situations.
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In the Svae for Web and Device under the image tab where it says art Optimize that is a drop down menu select Type Optimize as such
htis is what it lloks like in AI and a browser when you choose Type Optimize
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i have an issue with preview not anti aliasing text in pdf files. to elaborate, take a pdf with text which is selectable and it appears jagged, not anti aliased as in pdfs with text which is treated as an image, i.e. not selectable.
also, sometimes, when scrolling through pages in full screen, the following page has the text anti-aliased as the scroll animation is taking place, i.e. while the previous page is being moved away through the gesture, but once the previous page has disappeared and the new page 'settled in' the smoothing is gone.
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s.

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Hmm, that's odd. My type is looking pretty decent out of Illustrator. Can you try a different font or the same font in a new sequence?
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I'm working with the webkit browser in an AIR project and running into a big hurdle. The fonts displayed in my webkit HTML are blocky and jaggy due to AIR not supporting -webkit-font-smoothing or text-rendering, and this is making my really great AIR app look a bit shoddy.
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Hi Chris,
Thanks for your reply. I'm using Flash CS6 targetting Air 3.4 for Desktop (on Win7). I tried switching my app to using StageWebView as suggested but it yields the same results, and so am a bit stumped as to what to do. I've checked my html css to make sure the correct font styling is in place and it appears smooth and anti-aliased in Chrome and IE (but not Firefox), so I'm not entirely sure what to do now.
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I need to be able to batch-convert multi-page PDFs to individual bitmap images (one image for each page) with anti-aliased text.
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What is correct anti-aliasing setting for text for web use?

The text in question will not be html, just text, mainly Times Roman and black. The graphics I produce should look clear online and I don't know which is best - sharp/crisp/strong - can I get some clarification on this?

I don't think any of the answers provided thus far are the ones you are looking for.
There are many places to change anti-alias options in Illustrator and they all pertain to different objects or different times at which the anti-aliasing happens, at least to my understanding anyway...
The anti-alias options you are referring to specifically define how the respective text is rendered within your document once it is rasterized. As you mentioned, the choices are None, Crisp, Sharp and Strong. Don't quote me on this specifically, but additional anti-alias options you set afterwards (i.e. when you're saving for web) will further modify the image as a whole (or within the scope of whatever you are editing) while the text is rendered first.
Now, to your question, which one is best?
I honestly don't know for sure, however, I don't think there is a 'best' option in a general sense. Usually Crisp works best for me, but it will depend on whether you are designing for the web or for print, then on other variables beyond that i.e. headlines versus paragraph text. I change mine for different things rarely-usually when I'm dealing with anything containing really small text or extreme variations of text sizes, or anything similar.
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If that doesn't quite tickle your fancy, save an instance of each as its own image. Make sure to name them accordingly though-it's very easy to forget which is which if you don't. (i.e. "image-crisp.png", "image-sharp.png" and "image-strong.png")
Then, simply compare them within the Windows folder you saved them to-I usually use the default image preview and cycle back and forth with my arrow keys.
* Also, I recommend you use 'Save for Web' and the PNG-24 preset and keep the size close to, or the same as, your intended output.
I really hope that all makes sense.
Good luck!

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