Rotate Effect and Non Embedded Fonts in Flex 4

September 25th, 2008 by Greg Jastrab

One big improvement in Flash Player 10 is that fonts no longer need to be embedded in order to rotate text or alter it’s alpha. Below is a simple example demonstrating both of these features by using the Rotate and Fade effects in Flex 4.

[flash /wp-content/uploads/2008/09/rotate_and_fade.swf]

Check out how simple the code is below!

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