Typophile - Pixel (Flash) Fonts VS Illustrator CS - Comments

In Illustrator CS3, you

Landitus — Wed, 6 Aug 2008 12:02:10 -0700

In Illustrator CS3, you select the option View > Pixel preview. And everything placed in an exact o half pixel (,5) in the X an Y axis gets rendered sharp and crisp.

I would think that would

Thomas Phinney — Thu, 1 May 2008 12:37:13 -0700

I would think that would work - *if* your output resolution was a multiple of your grid resolution. So for example if your grid is point-based, and you export at 100 ppi, the grid won’t help. But if you export at 72 ppi, it would.

Regards,

Something else that may be

bert_vanderveen — Thu, 1 May 2008 08:51:31 -0700

Something else that may be useful: In Indy you should use a full point–grid & lock/place all elements on this. Makes for more consistent anti-aliasing when rendering to pixels.

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Bert Vanderveen BNO

No problem! Peace, and

krissserz — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:32:25 -0700

No problem!

Peace, and thanks again to all!

No problem! Peace to all!

krissserz — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:32:13 -0700

No problem!

Peace to all!

Please forgive me if I came

frode frank — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:25:00 -0700

Please forgive me if I came across harsh. Good luck with your work, Krissserz!

To be frank, I really

krissserz — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:06:49 -0700

To be frank, I really don’t think this is the matter of the subject here, but I’ll still take time to answer.

It’s simple: I’m used to Illustrator to design with. I don’t want to waste too much time having to get used to Flash’s tools. I work on a MAC, and my programmer works on a PC. So I have to break apart the fonts anyway when I give him the Flash docs. (Please don’t ask anymore questions relating to our/my method of work... It would be too long and not on the subject. Thanks. We all have our own ways of working for a lot of different reasons. That’s it, that’s all.)

Illustrator is vector-based, and so is Flash. I think it’s logical.

What wouldn’t be logical, would be to design the interior of a novel with Photoshop for obvious reasons.

Thanks.

I’m no evangelists on

frode frank — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:30:43 -0700

I’m no evangelists on these matters, but I find it good to take use of the internet’s possibilities. Flash is, btw, an amazing tool.

Frode, what’s all this

Eben Sorkin — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:24:48 -0700

Frode, what’s all this “if you care about usability, that is” stuff? Much as I venerate usability ( and I do you know...) the world is not made of usability alone. Not all individuals or business’ want or would even benefit from usability alone.

I don’t want to kill the

frode frank — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:15:40 -0700

I don’t want to kill the spirit, but if you’re using Illustrator to design your sites there’s a good chance you don’t really need Flash. One can remake any AI with just plain old html/css – if you care about usability, that is.

Great! I’ll try that! Much

krissserz — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:33:59 -0700

Great! I’ll try that!

Much appreciated. Thanks!

(I didn’t know about this

Mark Simonson — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:14:20 -0700

(I didn’t know about this rasterize effect, either, until now. Pretty neat.)

You can save a little time

Mark Simonson — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:13:39 -0700

You can save a little time by saving the effect as a graphic style, which is very simple to do: Select one of your already-rasterized text boxes and drag it to the graphic styles palette. This will create a blank white icon in the graphic styles palette. When you select a text box and click on the icon, the same rasterize effect settings will be applied. Since a blank white icon is not very identifiable, it helps to give it a name (double click on it) and set the graphic styles palette to one of the list views.

Thanks. This seems to be the

krissserz — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:33:35 -0700

Thanks.

This seems to be the solution.

I still find it weird that I’ll need to do that extra step everytime I’ll create another text box, but if it works, ok then! (It probably would’ve been better to have a “crisp/smooth” option in the Type palette like in Photoshop, but still...)

Seems like this is it! Peace!

Effect > Rasterize Here is a

Manlio Napoli — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:20:20 -0700

Effect > Rasterize
Here is a tutorial.

Pixel (Flash) Fonts VS Illustrator CS

krissserz — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:21:58 -0700

Hello!

Pixel fonts are blurry in all of the CS versions of Illustrator, even if placed at full x/y values. Seems like the only Illustrator versions that shows pixel fonts the crispy way are Illustrator 10 and below. (I wrote to Adobe about it last year [2007, or even 2006], and I still didn’t get an answer [surprise!].)

Does anyone know the trick for crispy looking pixel fonts in any of the CS versions? I’d like to design my Websites in Illustrator CS... I’m done with 10!

Thanks.