Fonts rendering badly
January 2, 2010 12:00 AM
When you select text to be rendered as an image, it converts to a transparent .gif during publishing. The jagged edges are a side effect the nature of .gif transparency. If you were to change the text to another color like black, you'd see that the jagged edges are extra white pixels called a matte. Since your text is white these extra pixels blend into one blocky mess.
Lectora doesn't allow you to change the matte color. For this reason, I try to avoid converting text into images on anything other than white backgrounds.
liandor said:What would cause a font to start rendering badly after looking fine in previous "save as" versions? The font I'm using is Verdana, 9pt white on a blue background and it looks very jaggy and chewed up after publishing and uploading. I have the text box rendering as an image because the text has bullets and they don't align correctly in some browsers if I don't save the text as an image. It almost looks like a .gif that is being squeezed into a smaller size.
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