Flash Site Design - Why are my graphics & text blurry?

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Why are my graphics & text blurry?

cstanton

2004-05-18, 7:38 pm

I made this website to client's specs and it looked fine on my machine - res
set @ 1280x1024. On other monitors mostly set @ 1024x768, the graphics and
text look blurred. Zooming in reveals nice crisp borders on the fonts and
lines, but at the normal size, the resolution seems to be a problem. This
isn't acceptable and I'm looking for advice to fix it. The movie's dimensions
are 1000px X 750px, is this a problem? I thought I'd need to reduce the
dimensions of the movie, but this involves rebuilding all the movie's
elements... and what I might end up with could still be blurry. Any advice?

Here's a link to my struggles: http://www.tstinc.com

Sincere thanks,

cstanton

fasterthanlight

2004-05-18, 11:29 pm

resizing my page reveals that the site sizes with the browser window... a big
no-no.
go to Publish Settings (via File) and click the HTML tab. underneath
dimensions it may have "percent" selected... change that to "Match Movie"

also... maybe the site URL is directed to the .swf.... not an html page. this
could aslo be causing problems

acutally, now that i think of it, im 90% sure that this is the problem. i can
see the text off stage as it enters the stage of the movie... and there seems
to be no page

cstanton

2004-05-18, 11:29 pm

Okay, thanks for the tips - I checked, and the swf is an embeded object on
index.html

<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"

codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve
rsion=5,0,0,0"
WIDTH=100% HEIGHT=100%>
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="tst.swf"> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=best> <PARAM
NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF> <EMBED src="tst.swf" quality=best bgcolor=#FFFFFF
WIDTH=100% HEIGHT=100% TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Vers
ion=ShockwaveFlash"></EMBED>

- so I've changed the dimensions to reflect instead of 100%, the actual size
of the movie. However, then it's too large for many screens - so we have to
display the smallest one for all? If so, then is there an easy way to resize
the entire movie - without having to start over or change every element?

Thanks again!

cstanton