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Great-Looking Text: All You Ever Wanted to Know About Anti-Aliasing


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Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Anti-Aliasing Capabilities
  3. Anti-Aliasing Options

Before I get into the details of creating great looking text graphics with the improved text anti-aliasing capabilities in Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004, I wanted to first define anti-aliasing. A quick search on dictionary.com brings up the following:

  • an•ti: Opposed to; against.
  • a•li•as•ing: The appearance of jagged distortions in curves and diagonal lines in computer graphics because the resolution is limited or diminished.

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