--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Laurent Cozic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually it doesn't really matter what the defautl font is or if it's installed on the user's system or not. If you want to change the alpha, rotation or, in general, use any effect on a text component, you have to embed the font. > > This is actually a limitation of the Flash Player, not Flex, so there's not much we can do about it. If I'm not mistaken, this limitation will be gone in Flash 10 though.
I think you can get around this by setting the blendMode http://flexdiary.blogspot.com/2008/07/musings-on-advanceddatagrid-part- 3.html
