Arial.ttf is not bold, so it is thrown off when you set fontWeight to bold.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute"> <mx:Style> @font-face { fontFamily:myfont; src:url("arial.ttf"); } .myStyle { fontFamily:myfont; } </mx:Style> <mx:Label text="TEST TEXT" fontSize="14" x="200" width="200" rotation="70" styleName="myStyle" textAlign="center"/> </mx:Application> On 1/5/07 12:57 PM, "tinkiknit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all... > > Ok, I searched all afternoon on this group for the solution to this > to no avail. Here is what I have (when I set the rotation property > to anything the text disappears)... > > <mx:VBox xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" maxWidth="19" > verticalScrollPolicy="off" horizontalScrollPolicy="off" > paddingTop="130" paddingRight="3" paddingLeft="3"> > > <mx:Style> > @font-face { fontFamily:myfont; src:url("arial.ttf"); } > .myStyle { fontFamily:myfont; fontWeight:bold;} > </mx:Style> > > <mx:Label text="TEST TEXT" fontWeight="bold" fontSize="14" > styleName="myStyle" textAlign="center" fontFamily="myfont"/> > > </mx:VBox> > > thanks for any help... > > Christine > > >