Re: [flexcoders] Scaling Fonts in Flex

2007-01-24 Thread Daniel Freiman
You can't scale a font, but you can scale the component that the font is in by using scaleX and scaleY. However, this might not work in all cases because it will also scale other visual attributes of the component (such as a border). If you have this problem you are going to need to create (or

Re: [flexcoders] Scaling Fonts in Flex

2007-01-24 Thread Daniel Freiman
I tried to send this email once and got a return to sender. Sorry if anyone sees it twice. You can't scale a font, but you can scale the component that the font is in by using scaleX and scaleY. However, this might not work in all cases because it will also scale other visual attributes of the

[flexcoders] Scaling Fonts in Flex

2007-01-23 Thread Jurgen Beck
This may be an odd one and I know that you guys are going to respond that you shouldn't really do this in Flex considering that Flex applications are something different than Flash movies. :-) So here it goes: Has anyone figured out a way to scale fonts (text, either with embedded fonts or