On Dec 14, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Ashim D'Silva wrote:

Right. I recreated everything slowly in a new file, introducing things one by one and here's the culprit - Advanced Anti-Aliasing.Now I really would like to use advanced, because text looks dramatically better, but there has
to be a solution, doesn't there?

The issue affects more than just static fields (with hovers). It dramatically affects applications where users are allowed to rotate and scale dynamic text fields. In that instance, the kerning, leading and character positions are offset and randomly jump around in value. The kerning is the worst - as a field is scaled the kerning will jump anywhere between 0-2 em on the characters ... randomly between each.

The only work around is to have the text field rotated by a small amount (0.01, for example). I submitted this bug to Adobe quite while back, along with the 'workaround.'

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. At least you can give the rotation of the field a shot. You may need to use AS to set the rotation via a Matrix.

var m:Matrix = new Matrix();
m.rotate(0.01);
myTextfield.transform = m;

The rotaion might need to be tweaked a tad - I don't have my bug app open right now to check out the exact value that I ended up using.

- jon
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