Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 14:24:00 -0700 From: Alex Zavatone <azavatone@MACROMEDIA.COM> Subject: Tip: Anti-aliased fonts in the paint window
** Top Secret **
So, we know that director is, to be polite, not the best with antialiasing 'stuff'. The score antialiasing is lethargic and only antialiases quickdraw things. Where's that antialias text option in the paint window? Well, there is no antialias text option in the paint window, but there is a way to get antialiased text in the paint window without going through photoshop. Antialiasing is done in the transform bitmap dialog and you can see it by taking an object and transforming it by 50% then zooming in on it. Check out the edge areas between colors, there is now antialiasing there. By now, you have probably guessed my secret. When creating a font, create it at 2x size and place the desired background behind it. Then select transform bitmap from the cast menu and scale it by 50%. That's all there is to it. The results are pretty decent too.