Tag: fonts
Anti-aliased Device Fonts in Astro
by Josh on May.20, 2008, under ActionScript, Flash
By now you’ve seen and heard plenty about Flash Player 10. One feature that I’m in love with right now is the new text rendering provided by Saffron 3.1. Among other things, this provides better anti-aliasing for fonts, including device fonts.
Why does this matter? Because now you can use device fonts in your TextFields, and do things like adjust their opacity, or rotate them without needing to embed the font. How sexy is that? Obviously, if you’re using a custom font, you’ll need to embed that, but for device fonts, it’s no longer a requirement just to adjust the alpha value of a TextField.
Check this out (You’ll need Flash Player 10 installed).
Download the source: AstroTest.as.
This is a really simple demo, but it’s enough to get the point across.
