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  • text in subpicture highlight

    Posted by Enginn Heima on August 8, 2009 at 9:29 am

    I’m trying to do the simplest thing. Having a text in button subpicture highlight, so that once the button is highlighted a text appears below.

    Ok, it work, but the text is really ugly. Read on the forum that it’s because of the lack of anti-alias and that the subpicures can only handle unicolors.

    STILL, IS THERE NO WAY OF DOING THIS WITHOUT HAVING THE TEXT APPEARING LOOKING LIKE HELL?

    Enginn Heima replied 17 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Jon Geddes

    August 8, 2009 at 4:08 pm

    Use a font that looks good, typically this will be a sans-serif font. Button highlights are only 2 bit. So the pixels are either 100% opaque or 0% opaque, there is no smooth edge. Of course you can always make the entire button semi transparent in Encore, but that still doesn’t change the edge smoothness. It is a limitation of the DVD spec, not encore.

    Jon Geddes
    http://www.precomposed.com

  • Enginn Heima

    August 8, 2009 at 7:46 pm

    Thanks Jon.

    Tried the Sans Serif, but it doesn´t look good enough. I guess, as a general rule, YOU SHOULD NOT USE TEXT IN SUBPICTURE. Not cool.

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