I can't find the email thread, but the answer I got was that there is no equivalent of gridFitType because the new font rendering algorithm is "better". IIRC, it is "better" because it employs some anti-aliasing algorithm on all edges, not just one ones that are unlucky enough to not fall on pixel boundaries, and doesn't mess with inter-character spacing.
That said, several folks are unhappy with this algorithm. One experiment for you to try now that we have more version flexibility in Apache Flex is to set your player/air versions back to whatever it was in 4.1 or even 4.0. That might cause the player to select an older rendering algorithm. HTH, -Alex On 10/3/13 7:24 AM, "modjkl...@comcast.net" <modjkl...@comcast.net> wrote: >I've always had problems with embedded fonts in 4.5.1 SDK. I've tried so >much to overcome it. Seems no matter which version of Arial or Helvetica >I embed, the spark text always looks shorter and fat (e.g. blurry), and >the mx text looks tall and skinny. The hinting options, while having an >effect, don't seem to correct this. If anyone has settings that make an >embedded font (Arial or Helvetica) look normal, I'd really like to try >them. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Tom Chiverton" <t...@extravision.com> >To: users@flex.apache.org >Sent: Thursday, October 3, 2013 6:59:30 AM >Subject: Re: blurry fonts > >On 03/10/2013 14:54, Miguel Ferreira wrote: >> I am finalizing a updated to my costumer from flex 4.1.0 to flex 4.10.0 >>and the fonts really look horrible. >We had the same issue when migrating up from Adobe Flex 4.1 to Apache >4.x - it took some experimenting with the various hinting options for >the font, as well as embedding a few different fonts before we found a >combination that worked well. >I'd start by stripping out any relevant styles, then add in a specific >embeded font, then have a look at the various hinting options available. > >Tom
