[flexcoders] Use Outline fonts in Flex AIR app?

2009-09-13 Thread Tracy Spratt
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

Re: [flexcoders] Use Outline fonts in Flex AIR app?

2009-09-13 Thread Ian Thomas
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

Re: [flexcoders] Use Outline fonts in Flex AIR app?

2009-09-13 Thread Ian Thomas
Sorry, setting the filter on a text display object of some sort, not on a font! Ian On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Ian Thomas i...@eirias.net wrote: 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