Interesting... I suspect that this is a limit with TextField the Flash Player. I didn't check whether embedding the font gets around the problem. However, TextField is on its way to becoming obsolete and the limit doesn't seem to apply to FTE, the new Flash Text Engine in Player 10. As a demonstration of this, the following Flex 4 app
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <FxApplication xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009";> <layout><VerticalLayout/></layout> <TextBox text="Hello" fontFamily="Verdana" fontSize="1000"/> </FxApplication> renders properly because TextBox uses FTE rather than TextField. Gordon Smith Adobe Flex SDK Team From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen More Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 7:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Displaying Extremely large fonts Is there a way to display extremely large fonts in Flash ? I have tried: var format:TextFormat = new TextFormat(); format.font = "Verdana"; format.color = 0x000000; format.size = 72; [TextLineMetrics ascent:72, descent:16, leading:0, width:40, height:88, x:2] format.size = 144; [TextLineMetrics ascent:127, descent:27, leading:0, width:71, height:154, x:77] format.size = 288; [TextLineMetrics ascent:127, descent:27, leading:0, width:71, height:154, x:77] But the height never gets larger than 154. textfield.width = stage.stageWidth; textfield.height = stage.stageHeight; I am looking to display text almost as large as the stage, do I need to use a different font or an embedded font ? -Thanks
