Better font readability Flash technology already enables the use of any font for text, and does not require that font to be installed on the user’s machine to display properly. It accomplishes this by converting fonts into vector graphics, which enables designers to use their choice of fonts. However, since Flash turns them into vector graphics it no longer knows they are letter shapes — this results in small fonts appearing blurry in Flash Player. Maelstrom solves this issue by including a great new font-rendering engine that enables arbitrary fonts to display crisply even at small sizes. Additional control for text layout and display has also been added, including full justification and fine adjustment of kerning.
(from:
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/maelstrom/)
Looks like it’s broken on the last release (8.0.0.447).
Look at this example here:
http://caseyc.com/fp8/texttuner.html Of course you’ll need the new
FP8 (8.0.0.447) for that. But beware! Before installing this one over previous one (8.0.0.443) you should run
Kewbees Flash Plugin Switcher, so you can safely restore the *original*
I filed a bug to flashcoders, since this is not related to existing code, which we should carefully test.
[update: August, 9, 2005; 16:12]
As a new Plugin is out ( 8,0,5,0) i tested tthis again, and it seems still broken, so my guess is, they’ve changed the API.
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