Published by Sam Creel on 19 Mar 2007 at 09:16 am
Captivate Tip - Improving Transparent Text
From Paul Dewhurst’s site:
One of the Problems Captivate used to have was that if you used transparent captions then the text in the published movie would look blurred, In captivate 2 you can fix this problem and have nice crisp text all you need to do is select #C0C0C0 as the highlight colour and highlight part of the text (you can select just one character) this makes the text in the published movie display nice and crisp and the highlight is transparent
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Bryan Peters on 22 Mar 2007 at 8:57 am #
Works great for light backgrounds - on dark backgrounds you may need to use the background color as the highlight color.
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Bryan Peters on 29 Mar 2007 at 1:12 pm #
Captivate 2 users - Use the above tip with caution if you export captions to Word for editing, as highlights will be altered to use Word’s default highlight colors. When you re-import, the highlight color is changed in Captivate to match Word. This makes transparent captions that used this trick look worse until you find all your transparent captions and reset the highlight color.
Townes on 13 Mar 2008 at 1:21 am #
Hi,
Im completely new to the forum, so I have a question concerning this rather old posting:
Getting crisp text works well for me (using the “trick” above), as long as I don’t rescale the html file to 100% widt and height. As soon as I do this, the text gets even worse than it does when not changing highlight colour. Any ideas how the fix this?
Magus on 22 May 2008 at 10:24 am #
Hi all
While fellow Adobe Community Expert Paul Dewhurst’s trick is neat and was among the first offered for this, I’ve found what may be a slightly easier way to handle this.
Edit the caption and place the cursor at the end of the last bit of text.
Press the Enter key a couple of times to add a couple of lines.
On the bottom line, add a bullet. The presence of the bullet should prevent the entire caption from using anti-aliasing and looking fuzzy.
After that, you simply adjust the size of the caption so that the bullet is hidden.