dynamic textfields show differently in MACs?

[brandao]

Whats up :beer:

I got a really strange issue for you guys. At least for me it was crazy to find out. I work with flash (in PCs) since 1999 and I just met this situation today.

I got some dynamic textfields in my flash movie loading html-formatted text. it works fine.

but my boss tried it out in a Macintosh and sent me a screenshot where I could see that there is a shorter distance between the lines and a shorter distance between the characters.

How can this be? Macromedia claims that Flash looks the same in all platforms.

thats the movie: http://www.antoniobrandao.com/mg/

Anyone of you guys know if there is a work-around?

thanks :s:

[jimhere]

This happened to me in reverse (work on Apple, viewed on Win). Turns out the "pixel" font I was using was not a true pixel font. PLUS it wasn't embedded. Therefore font substitution on the viewer's machine occurred and that's why the spacing was off. All was well when I used another typeface and embeded it.

[brandao]

I am using ARIAL.

I thought the whole world has the font so I wouldnt have to embed it. and it is not really a pixel font (I think), just I make that it displays that way.

I will try to embed the font, keeping it in pixel style. then I will place the updated swf in the page again. unfortunately I got no MAC to test it before I give it to my boss :puzzle:

if anyone wants to chekkit: www.antoniobrandao.com/mg (http://www.antoniobrandao.com/mg/)

cheers :bounce:

[The Brown Cow]

Hmmm... I'm on a Mac, and I can read the whole text block in English (up to "web design and PR.", right?) and in German ("Bereichen der Medienlandschaft"). The other sections seem to display fine.

Very nice, by the way. :)

[brandao]

Thankyou Brown Cow :)

But I knew that MAC users could see the whole text properly. The question was, if you guys see it *exactly* in the same way: with a pixel font and not smoothed as I saw in a MAC before.

I attach here a screenshot of how it looks in a PC. Have a look, if that's what you see when you view in the browser (www.antoniobrandao.com/mg/ (http://www.antoniobrandao.com/mg/)), than it means it is working fine now :D

[jimhere]

They're identical to me.

[brandao]

do you see the text looking exactly the same on your MAC's explorer?
--->www.antoniobrandao.com/mg/ (http://www.antoniobrandao.com/mg/)

[ScriptFlipper]

EDIT: This MIGHT be the cause of your problem:

http://azure.se/fontSmoothingProblem.jpg


I suppose that mac's have fontsmoothing on by default, while windows doesn't. As you can see, I, with my ClearType smoothing, get the same result that your boss on his mac.

It might be that because of the fact that your text is rendered as HTML, the webbrowser treats it like any other text, and not as a part of the flash movie. This makes the operating system to either smooth the text (if smoothing is on) or just to leave it as it is without smoothing (windows default).

[jimhere]

As seen in Safai AND Explorer (os 10.3.3). Interesting subtle differences.

[brandao]

thanks Kalliban your reply was very helpful :s:

but I guess the really concerning part of this issue is the spacing between the lines&characters that is presented differently in MACs and PCs.

Although the line spacing on yours (Kalliban) didnt seem to be any different(strange), in my boss's MAC it displays like in the following image:

In the following image you can see the screenshot of a MAC's display of the page in the browser, with a RED toned screenshot of how it displays in the PC made transparent so you can see that the line spacing (specially) is bigger in PC:

[ScriptFlipper]

I ran a search on Macromedias Flash Forum, and found this:
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=194&threadid=785437&highlight_key=y&keyword1=line%20spacing

So, maybe it is a Flash version issue? That would make sense, since some mac users sees the text correct, while some doesn't.