Yep - same problem here. I'm getting designs with speicifc fonts and spacing and finding it infuriating to try to replicate it. I have to put it on the stage, have it look ugly, test it (where it renders correctly), find out how far off I was with my tracking or whatever, and re-doing it. TLFTextfields are kind of important for us!

CS5.5 never had this problem, so it's doubly frustrating. CS6 so far hasn't offered improvements for my workflow at all.

Hello,

I am having a similar issue with Arial Regular. When it is larger than say 14pt it becomes obvious that the font is being stretched. Here's two comparative images.

TLF:-

Classic:-

To be clear, I am embedding DF4 Arial as an external font swf for the TLF example. The TLFTextField is generated dynamically at runtime for player 10.2 in a pure actionscript project.

Did any of you guys make any progress on figuring out why the rendering is strange?

Thanks,

Sam

Here you go,

Classic

TLF

Photoshop

I would still say the TLF render looks wider and stretched. The Classic render is actually slightly thinner that the Photoshop version.

So, all this is interesting but how do I find out if this is just how it is with TLF or if there is something that can be done?

Much thanks,

Sam

Edit__________

I just saw your images. They are sooo similar to each other compared to what I am getting. I am using Mac OS X Lion and Arial Regular (not bold).

i can confirm this as well.  in both mac os 10.7 and 10.8.  this works fine in cs5.5.   in cs6 authoring tool, fonts seem confused as to what to display when tlf:

rockwell font, against color and blank white (upper line in each group = classic, lower = tlf: regular, bold, extra bold)

screenshot from flash authoring canvas:

screenshot from swf (still in the flash authoring tool, just testing movie)

looks like in authoring tool canvas, tlf bold version is defaulting to the extra bold face, and they all look a bit bolder than the classic.