David Colletta mentioned to me on the Flexcomponents list that Microsoft Windows' ClearType sometimes gets turned off during component redraws. I've experienced this exact same thing you have. If you turn ClearType off (desktop, right click > properties, appearence tab, effects button) you can see the difference to normal fonts and embedded fonts; the ClearType does a 2nd run of anti-aliasing (sometimes).
My suggestion is, if you can, utilize a bitmap with the filter on it in an imaging program and utilize scale9 where applicable. If that is not an option, attempt to use your own cacheAsBitmap policy (since Containers have their own heuristic for that stuff, cacheBitmapPolicy). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Fitzpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <flexcoders@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 9:53 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Font mysteries Fonts are exhibiting some wacky behavior for me. I have a VBox that contains two simple label elements. I'm trying to add a filter to the VBox and have the fonts in the labels display properly. Before the filter is applied, the Label fonts display fine. When I add a glow filter to the VBox, the antialiasing on the Label fonts disappears. Strangely, when the Label text is long enough to force a scrollbar on the VBox, the Label fonts are suddenly antialiased correctly. Embedding the font (I'm using Verdana) and applying it using a stylename does apply some antialiasing in the VBox with the filter, but it doesn't look nearly as good as the unstyled text in the filtered VBox with forced scrollbars or the VBox with no filter. I haven't tried FlashType fonts - that's next on my list - but I thought maybe someone could explain what's going on here or point me to a solution. - Tom -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
