scrunch text with actionscript

[brentW505]

OK, I have a font, that looks better scrunched, because it's a little too tall. So in flash I press Q and scrunch it. How do I do that in actionscript?

it's a textfield. I tried scaleX.. but it seems to scale x and y.

[neznein9]

Make sure the font is embedded and then trace both scaleX and scaleY to make sure they are scaling independently.

[brentW505]

How do you embed it in actionscript?

[mlecho]

var tf:TextFormat= new TextFormat()
tf.font=new Arial().fontName;
textFieldName.embedFonts= true;
textFieldName.defaultTextFormat=tf
but you will have to add a font & export it with a class name (in this case Arial)