Wow. Thanks. I wouldn't have thought rotating a text field would make it better. Whenever I need to rotate text I usually render it to a bitmap and rotate that. Help is much appreciated.
Ashim 2008/12/17 Jon Bradley <[email protected]> > > On Dec 14, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Ashim D'Silva wrote: > > Right. I recreated everything slowly in a new file, introducing things one >> by one and here's the culprit - Advanced Anti-Aliasing.Now I really would >> like to use advanced, because text looks dramatically better, but there >> has >> to be a solution, doesn't there? >> > > The issue affects more than just static fields (with hovers). It > dramatically affects applications where users are allowed to rotate and > scale dynamic text fields. In that instance, the kerning, leading and > character positions are offset and randomly jump around in value. The > kerning is the worst - as a field is scaled the kerning will jump anywhere > between 0-2 em on the characters ... randomly between each. > > The only work around is to have the text field rotated by a small amount > (0.01, for example). I submitted this bug to Adobe quite while back, along > with the 'workaround.' > > Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. At least you can give the rotation of > the field a shot. You may need to use AS to set the rotation via a Matrix. > > var m:Matrix = new Matrix(); > m.rotate(0.01); > myTextfield.transform = m; > > The rotaion might need to be tweaked a tad - I don't have my bug app open > right now to check out the exact value that I ended up using. > > - jon > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > -- The Random Lines My online portfolio www.therandomlines.com _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
