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Device fonts
Settings alternative fonts only work with device fonts. You can't use alternative fonts with an embeded font. by Jul 28
in StyleSheet
In the following example, when a user clicks on the text file, CSS styles, loaded from a file, are applied to the content. In the constructor, a multiline text field is created and its content is set to an HTML-formatted string. (The HTML heading and span tags are not rendered before CSS style is applied.) A URLRequest object is created to identify the location of the CSS file; for this example, the CSS file is in the same directory as the SWF file.
Really dumb 'workaround', and I'm sure it'll get downvoted, but since flash.text.TextField inherits flash.display.DisplayObject, you can use the built-in filters such as flash.filters.Blur to blur the text by half a pixel horizontally and vertically. This will consume a little more CPU. EDIT: After working a little bit with CS4, I found ther perfect way to do it without the extra CPU overhead!
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Anti-alias, sharpness & thickness
The following example shows you how to change an embedded font’s appearance by setting the fontAntiAliasType style, fontSharpness style, fontThickness style, and fontGridFitType style.
(FTE) Flash Text Engine
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