Anti-aliasing with non-embedded text?

Is there any way to enable type smoothing on non-embedded fonts?
I don't seem to find any way.
The AntiAliasType prop of the TextField class is settable only when font is embedded... this makes me worried.. :yikes:

I'm having the same trouble. I've just got back into AS3 (after checking it out in the beginning), and i can't seem to get my text smooth.

a size of 40 and a font of Georgia actually looks smoother to me in html than flash! Now that cannot be true..

So what are we missing... Anyone? Flash 8 had a little option to smooth none embedded text out, but that was in the IDE.. argh :/

I dunno, looks like device fonts are not rendered by the OS anymore, but all within flash.
(I'm just guessing)

Basically what I see is that you HAVE to embed fonts to get aliasing. It is actually stated in the AS3 preview documentation. You get all those pretty useless (in my opinion) fine-tuning, but it's limited to embedded fonts.

:(

Wow.. how crazy is that?

Now you say the fine tuning is useless, howso?

I couldn't see much difference in type rendering with the advanced anti-aliasing settings.
On the other side, the font rendering looks still pretty heavy on the graphics.
Still can't use flash for heavy data loads to display.

I don't have much to display, i just want lovely smooth text :/