Why is the text so yucky?

Jul 17, 2012

Hi all, I am doing a project that has a fair bit of text - sad but true.

I might have a couple of text boxes on a slide - both the text boxes have the same font, same size, same everything. They look the same when I am viewing them in storyline, but when I preview or publish, one text box will look fine and the other one will look fuzzy.

I am using Arial at the request of my client.

I can't describe it any other way but it is driving me nuts. I know other people have had issues with fonts so was wondering if anyone has found a solution.

I thought it might have something to do with pasting text in from a document vs typing it directly into SL. I am hoping this is not the case because I don't want to have to retype every bit of text.

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David Anderson
Staff

almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 2:38 pm (UTC)

Hi Nancy - What zoom level are you using? The best way to evaluate text quality is to ensure zoom level is 100%.

Steve Flowers

almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 2:42 pm (UTC)

What font size you using, Nancy? I've seen this with some font sizes. Not so much fuzzy, but just not crisp and clear.

Nancy Woinoski
Author

almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 2:57 pm (UTC)

Hi David, I am working at 100% zoom.

Hi Steve - Mostly 12 point, but have it with 18 point as well) I guess you are right it is not really fuzzy - just not crisp and clear. I would not even mind that much except that some text boxes are clear and some are not (on the same slide you really notice it).

Steve Flowers

almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 3:00 pm (UTC)

Sounds almost like a whole pixel placement problem, which would be a bug since SL only allows whole value placement.

David Anderson
Staff

almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 3:11 pm (UTC)

Steve Flowers said:

Sounds almost like a whole pixel placement problem, which would be a bug since SL only allows whole value placement.

Steve, I sure hope it's not a case of WPPP.

Nancy, how does the text look when you publish or preview? Same? Better? Is there any chance you can post a screenshot of your text or submit it as a bug?

Nancy Woinoski
Author

almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 3:26 pm (UTC)

It looks bad when published as shown here and in preview. Looks fine when just working in SL.

Nancy Woinoski
Author

almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 3:30 pm (UTC)

Interesting... I was displaying text using a variable in the column on the left (this is the one that looks different) and when I removed it all of the text boxes look the same.

Steve Flowers

almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 3:45 pm (UTC)

A clue! I'd report that I can't think of what they're doing with the generation of output that might cause some fields to look different when there's a variable in the house.

Nancy Woinoski
Author

almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 3:51 pm (UTC)

Thanks Steve. I will. Got to keep these guys busy some how

Bill Harnage

almost 12 years ago07/17/12 at 10:20 pm (UTC)

Nancy Woinoski said:

I thought it might have something to do with pasting text in from a document vs typing it directly into SL. I am hoping this is not the case because I don't want to have to retype every bit of text.

Copy & paste the text into a text file, then into SL. This will strip out any funky formatting Word (or any other editor) will notoriously add. It's an extra step, but only takes a few seconds.

Why is the text so yucky?

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