Text aliasing

[ksirul]

I'm getting aliasing on diagonal lines of text built with Smoke 2015 text editor.  I've tried different filtering and samples but nothing seems to really work.  If I bring in Photoshop files, they look fine.  Is there anything else I can do so smooth my text edges?

[mpixls]

Use a frame of (for example 90%) white as a fill using the text created as a matte. Adjust your anti-aliasing as necessary in Action or CFX.

You'll get very clean text.

[davidtindale]

Another way to get nice text is to do it double size in CFX (just use Auto softness in Text), then Lanczos resize to required res. You can save the oversize text node & resize as a custom node.

[ksirul]

Good suggestions but I'm not sure why I can't get nice clean anti-aliased text straight out of the text editor.

[ManChicken]

Everyone's antialiasing comes out a bit differently, and Photoshop has 4 different ways to rasterize type to boot so good luck matching it exactly anywhere else.

That said I've not found Smoke/Flame's text to be ugly on its own.  It's hard to say without seeing a examples of what you're getting versus what you want.