Tracy, You can get a pretty good approximation by using a GlowFilter on a font, setting the quality to medium or high, the size to 2 or more and the strength to 1000.
HTH, Ian On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Tracy Spratt <tr...@nts3rd.com> wrote: > > > We need to display numbers on a screen with a busy background and the > designers want to use an “outline” font. By this they mean a character that > has an outline around it. > > > > Googling shows that the word “outline’ is used with font technical > description/formatting, but that is not the same as a visual outline around > the character. One post (from 2006) says that Flex/Flash does not directly > support outline fonts and that one should create the characters in Flash. > > > > Worst case, we can do that but it means a lot of work, especially to > support multiple sizes, and to provide runtime styling of the colors of the > outline, and the interior. > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Tracy Spratt, > > Lariat Services, development services available > > > >
