Problems with Text and .gifs

[ahref]

hi, whenever I include text in a flash document and export as an animated gif i get this really weird squiggle where the text should be:

http://ahref.awardspace.com/e/test.gif

I have no idea what is going on here the publishing settings do not seem to have any effect on the outcome. you can however see them:

http://ahref.awardspace.com/e/flash.png here

does anyone know what is going on?

sorry my hose appears to be down at the moment of posting :(

thanks

[rafiki]

hi, whenever I include text in a flash document and export as an animated gif i get this really weird squiggle where the text should be:

http://ahref.awardspace.com/e/test.gif

I have no idea what is going on here the publishing settings do not seem to have any effect on the outcome. you can however see them:

http://ahref.awardspace.com/e/flash.png here

does anyone know what is going on?

sorry my hose appears to be down at the moment of posting :(

thanks
i just tried the links, both take me to awardspace, which is not the pages you were pointing at

[ahref]

i just tried the links, both take me to awardspace, which is not the pages you were pointing at

och there rubbish hosts lol. ill upload to photobucket hold on

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c69/iframe/test.gif

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c69/iframe/flash.png

thanks

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

Hmm I've never seen that behavior before. Can you link us to your .fla file?

[ahref]

http://www.sendspace.com/file/zahc89

there you go thanks

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

Hmm I was only able to recreate the problem by doing a publish preview. It opened in Fireworks and looked like your original image. When I went to publish the final version it was fine.

[ahref]

hmm if i make the text's anti alias options set to use device fonts it works fine

[akastar]

The issue is that flash it trying to apply some mathmatical rounding off using the anti alias procedure but gif doesn't support this. It attempts to start this but gets confused part way through. if you look at the sqiggle, you can identify some of the letters, the top part of the T in the top left where the text was first placed on screen (before any transformation matrix was applied)

Another option is to break the font apart twice (CTRL + B) and then turn it into a symbol. This way flash no longer see this as font but just paint however this method in early tests ends up copying the background too when its tweened. So yea your best bet is to use device fonts for a gif.

[ahref]

thanks for the info :)