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Flash Text Fades: The Alpha Property and Device Fonts

Posted by Nick Wiggill  Published in ActionScipt 2, Flash Authoring Tool

The other day I was working on a quick prelim Flash web layout for one of our clients and was disgusted to note (not for the first time!) that if I wanted the crispness and convenience of using a device font, I would not be able to fade said font using the _alpha property.
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