Simpleviewer Flash Gallery - text looks weird in Firefox & Safari?

[leilanimunter]

Hi there,

I am a new convert and I am not sure what is going on here, but for some reason on my Apple in Firefox and Safari my text displays in a strange way on my simpleviewer flash gallleries -

Pick any gallery here:
http://leilanimunter.com/photogallery.htm

The spacing is weird, I don't get it. It looks normal in IE and Firefox from a PC. Any tips would be very helpful, thanks.

Leilani

 

[angelwatt]

Can you provide some snapshots of the difference? Nothing looks "weird" to me so not sure how to advise you.

 

[leilanimunter]

screenshot from a PC in either IE or Firefox:

screenshot from my Mac in either Safari or Firefox:

For some reason the spacing looks strange on my Apple and I don't know why...

 

[angelwatt]

Part of that is the difference between the way Windows and Mac displays fonts. Mac uses anti-aliased style, whereas Windows uses aliased (by default anyways).

Beyond that though, I do see a couple spots where the letter spacing is a little off, like the word "presenting" at the bottom, there's a larger gap between the 'p' and 'r' letters. This is something I see from time-to-time. I don't think it has anything to do with your code unless maybe you're using an odd font. You could try changing it to see if it has any effect.

 

[adamfishercox]

Yeah the character spacing there is really weird. What font?

 

[leilanimunter]

Thanks for your replies...

I am just using a simpleviewer gallery so the code is already done, the only part that I edit is this file, where I don't see any font code:

http://leilanimunter.com/Galleries/EventsRedCarpet/gallery.xml

But there is also this file which I never edit, as the instructions from simpleviewer were to leave it as is:

http://leilanimunter.com/Galleries/EventsRedCarpet/swfobject.js

I've looked through it for font coding but it is greek to me as I only know how to write simple html and don't do flash. I am hoping you can see what I don't. Thanks for the help!

Leilani

 

[angelwatt]

Ah, the font is set inside the Flash file. Well, if the font is the issue, then you wouldn't be able to do anything about it.