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Foundation Flash CS4 for Designers- P10

Foundation Flash CS4 for Designers- P10: I can remember the day as clear as if it were just yesterday. I was walking by my boss’s office late one winter afternoon at the college where I teach, and he called me into his office. Sitting on his desk was a thin, white box with some sort of weird swirl on it. He slid the box across to me and asked, “You know anything about Flash?” | TEXT applications seemed to be lagging in this important area. So font rendering and management in Flash have always been a sore point with designers. Flash CS4 may have just put that one to rest with the inclusion of CoolType. A little screen type history To understand how big a deal CoolType is you have to go back into the gray mists of time to around 1984 and the introduction of the Macintosh. For many of you 1984 is a murky year in your childhood. For some of us especially one of the authors it was the year that graphic layout started its move from art boards waxers and X-Acto knives to the computer screen. Two companies Apple and Adobe made this possible. Apple supplied the computer and the LaserWriter printer while Adobe supplied PostScript. Up to that point layout on a computer was interesting but the problem was that stuff called type. A letter would show up on the computer screen but it would be blocky. There was essentially no way to differentiate a capital letter A set in Garamond from its Times counterpart. This was due to the way computers rendered on-screen type. Essentially the letters were constructed in a grid of pixels which gave them the rather blocky pixelated look we have come to call the jaggies. PostScript developed by Adobe somewhat solved this problem by creating a language PostScript that in very simple terms drew the letter over the pixels and gave designers what they wanted Garamond A characters that actually looked like Garamond As on the screen. The fact that they looked even crisper when run through the LaserWriter was also a huge factor in moving the graphics industry to computers. Still designers spent a lot of time whining about on-screen resolution and font crispness. As the Web took hold and Flash took off designers continued to notice the fonts they used didn t look quite right. Pixels were still being lit up to create letters so they were subject to the lingering problems inherent in on-screen text. As we have stated the .