Comments on: Rendering text in AS3 using FTE (Flash Text Engine)

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Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:06:19 +0000

[...] Rendering text in AS3 using FTE (Flash Text Engine) [...]

By: Samuel Jonasson

Samuel Jonasson — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:28:36 +0000

Not having to embed Chinese glyphs to get to do simple alpha or get anti aliased text is a biggie. So anyone doing a multilingual site that requires huge character sets should investigate.

By: diiiimaaaa

diiiimaaaa — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:37:57 +0000

To see difference between FTE and old text, use smaller font size and you will see that FTE looks much better.

By: ramin

ramin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:35:05 +0000

Well,

This is all nice and the new APIs provide more functionality. The fact of the matter is that Adobe cannot provide, both a simple and complete solution. In our company, we started to use the new Engine on an application supporting 11 languages, CSS, dynamic fonts, etc. All these were doable with the old TextField but not perfect. With the new Engine, even though more powerful, managing text and specially supporting CSS and is not trivial. Hopefully one day we will get an Engine that provides an Engine working with standard CSS and easier APIs.

By: Tink

Tink — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:57:13 +0000

“The upper line is made using FTE, the lower one with normal text fields.
I have to say I don’t see noticeable improvements, anyway it will introduce you into FTE world.”

You would if you were adding images, creating complex text layouts, using rtl or ttb text, or complex styling.

… but on the flip side you would see performance degrade.