fonts in jpeg images in my xml gallery are distorted

[ozzie123]

I've set up some xml galleries for the portfolio section of my website http://www.clearlygreendesign.com. My problem is with the jpeg images within the xml files. I have created the jpeg files so that each portfolio image has a short description below in a simple font (Verdana). The fonts are fine in the original jpeg files but as soon as the jpegs are part of the xml gallery, they become distorted and hard to read. I have no clue how to solve this. I've tried other fonts within Photoshop (including Pixel fonts) and I've tried outlining the fonts before I save as jpegs and nothing works. It seems that the xml file is distorting the look of the fonts within each jpeg file. The images look fine, it's only the fonts. The problem can be viewed in the "folio" section of my site.

Help!

[Medyman]

Is that the original size of the image? My only guess could be that it's being resized and that causes some distortion.

I've never seen or heard of anything like that happening because of Flash.

Can you link to one of the images within the XML (outside of flash) so I can see what kind of distortion is happening from the original image.

One solution to this would be to also bring the text into your flash via XML. Bascially, you'd just add a "client" and "project" node to your XML and then dynamically call that from the same function that you're using for the slideshow.

[BLiZZaRD]

I assume you are speaking of the "Project: and Client: " info section just under the picture?

The problem here is bit-mapped fonts turned into vector based outputs. The best way to overcome this is to not have them together. You can create a dynamic text box with embedded fonts and put the same info in there and have it change as the picture changes.

The other option is to use a less oblique font color, remove the bold and up the pixel size 1 to 2 points. Export your pictures as png instead of jpg and it should clear up a bunch.