Henry, I just saw that text rotation is not working in the AS3 based runtime (SWF10). What is the reason for that? Flash 10 supports rotation of text without embedding fonts.
I've created an improvement request, with a demo attached. Flash Player 10 added a rotationZ property to a TextField. That means, saying someText.getDisplayObject().textfield.rotationZ = 30; will rotate the text. Works for Chinese/Korean/Asian languages as well, as long as the font is on your system. Depending on the font size, another approach is better (using a TextBlock object), as described here: http://www.yswfblog.com/blog/2009/05/21/the-knack-to-rotating-dynamic-text-in-flash-10/
