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
http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009";>
renders properly because TextBox uses FTE rather than TextField.
Gordon Smith
Adobe Flex SDK Team
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Stephen More
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 7:58 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
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 = 0x00;
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
