Question

Any ideas about how to emulate Smooth font rendering option from Photoshop in Flash/Flex? I’ve tried different settings for advanced rendering (antiAliasType, gridFitType and friends) but not much luck so far. Any ideas?..

Answer 1

TextField class has a properties for sharpness and thickness.

sharpness: can be set from -400 to 400
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS3LCR/Flash_10.0/flash/text/TextField.html#sharpness

myField.sharpness = 400;

thickness: can be set from -200 to 200
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS3LCR/Flash_10.0/flash/text/TextField.html#thickness

myField.thickness = -200

In general it is a good idea to set your TextField instances on a whole pixel. I sometimes sub-class TextField and override the setters for x and y with something like this.

override public function set x( value:Number ):void
{
     super.x = Math.round( value );
}

I’ve also found that if you are using pixel fonts that it is a good idea to set TextField.antiAliasType to AntiAliasType.ADVANCED.