#Fonts in Animator Pro
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The fonts provided with Animator Pro Ver 1.3 almost all look very jagged with
the exception of the CLEAN 8 and CLEAN 11 fonts but they are too small for most
of my applications.
I tried loading the font ALPS from the 3dStudio World Creating Toolkit and
compared it to the FONTA.GIF file that was created by Autodesk displaying this
font with others. The difference was very noticeable.
I tried using the UNZAG and SMOOTH and SOFTEN functions in Animator Pro
but that proved to be very unsatisfatory.
When I change the screen resolution to 1024 * 768 the fonts look better but
that is not a satisfactory fix and the contrast between the example provided in
the FONTA.GIF file and the loaded font naturally remained the same.
Do you have any suggestions?
Finally, is there a new version of Animator Pro to be released in the near
future?
Thanks for your help.
<<I tried loading the font ALPS from the 3dStudio World Creating Toolkit and
compared it to the FONTA.GIF file that was created by Autodesk displaying this
font with others. The difference was very noticeable.>>
I agree! It seems obvious that the GIF font examples on the 3DS CD were not
created in Animator Pro. I've found the only way to get acceptable results is
to use PShop for the fonts and bring them into Animator Pro.
I think that the fonts in Animator Pro are mostly unusable… I'm hoping that
there will be an option in the future to allow anti aliased fonts in APro.
Tom
The current version of AAP (1.3a) does render antialiased fonts. Nik Grant will
be able to give you the details about it and how to get it.
– G
Thanks for taking the trouble to respond
Thanks for responding.
I realized that the fonts in the GIF file were created by 3d Studio and your
solution to "import" the fonts from 3d Studio to Animator PRO is certainly a
solution. However, this makes editing/changes very awkward in anything other
than main titles. I have found that using unzag on a large bold font just OK
but that does not work well in the smaller sizes as some of the thinner lines
just disappear.
Best wishes
AAPRO 1.3a is actually the international version. However you can get
it by sending in the bug report at the back of the AAPRO installation
manual. As the bug you are reporting, state you want the antialiased
fonts and the ability to run in a DOS shell under Windows. Request to
be sent 1.3a.
Cyrus,
Have you tried reusing the text with soften ink? Many people try to apply
soften to the entire image or with a box surrounding the text. That almost
always produces an unacceptable result.
After placing your text, make soften the active ink and then choose
text/reuse and place the text right back in the same spot. This technique
applies the soften ink only to the text and produces a decent antialiased
effect.
Of course, from now on my preference will be Gary's suggestion to upgrade to
1.3a wich does real antialiased text. Now where did I put that bug report
form?
Steven
"Now where did I put that bug report form?"
The bug report forum is in the back of the Installation Guide.
Nik
Steven,
<< Now where did I put that bug report form? >>
Last page of the AniPro installation manual.
jonas[adesk]
I'm a typographer by trade (20+ years) and I agree that Anipro's fonts are
poor, to say the least. I've gotten around it by making .GIFs of type I create
with Pixar Typestry. It works very well, and I can apply various materials and
lighting to create the effects I want. I've also used Photoshop for type in
Anipro, but sometimes that comes out blurry.
Regards, Maura