When using an italic system font, such as BrushScriptStd.otf (pretty standard on Windows PCs ), it renders a capital "B" correctly in the textarea:
public var letB:String = '<TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="BrushScriptStd" SIZE="72" COLOR="#000000" LETTERSPACING="0" KERNING="0">B</FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT>'; myTextArea.htmlText = letB; Looks like this in the flash player in Firefox: [B.jpg] <http://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/16926/B.jpg> When I try to create a bitmap image of the TextArea, the edge of the italic "B" that "overhangs" the next character position gets clipped off in the rendered bitmap: [Bclipped.jpg] <http://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/16927/Bclipped.jp\ g> I used the BitmapData.draw method to generate the bitmap. I have also tried ImageSnapShot with the same result. myTextArea.setStyle("backgroundAlpha", 0.0); var myBitmap:BitmapData = new BitmapData(myTextArea.width*1, myTextArea.height*1, true, 0x00000000); var m:Matrix = new Matrix(); m.scale(1, 1); myBitmap.draw(myTextArea, m); BitmapImageOfB.source = new Bitmap(myBitmap); BTW - I need to use system fonts (allow the user to be able to create text with any fonts they have on their hard drive.) However, I have tried this with embedding the BrushScriptStd font just to see if that was the problem, but embedding did not change anything. Is this a bug? Or am I doing something really wrong?
