# Anti-alias - Why must you hate me so?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anti-alias-why-must-you-hate-me-so/281663
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [February 11, 2009, 10:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anti-alias-why-must-you-hate-me-so/281663 "2009-02-11T22:55:47Z")
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### Author: ![nikomax](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/nikomax/32/3664_2.png) [@nikomax](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nikomax)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2009, 10:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anti-alias-why-must-you-hate-me-so/281663/1 "2009-02-11T22:55:47Z")

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Hi there,

So I posted here and sorted of figured my own problem out.

But then something went wrong and now I am almost back at square one and no matter what I read or what tutorials I check or ANYTHING, I just cant get anti-aliased text any more.  
And I’m talking about normal latin-1 whatever, English.

So how are you meant to set text as anti-aliased text?

I have been doing it this way:[FONT=monospace]

```auto

            var example:TextField = new TextField();
            example.embedFonts = true;
            example.antiAliasType = 'advanced';
            example.defaultTextFormat = new TextFormat('Arial','30');
            example.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
            example.selectable = false;
            example.x = 200;
            example.y = 200;

            example.text = 'This is some example text';
            addChild(example);

```

But whenever I have the embedFonts on true, the text disappears. No I remember reading that I need embedFonts for the Anti-aliasing to work =S

Can someone Please help me before I go insane? [/FONT][COLOR=#000000]**[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000FF][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]**[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000FF][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][/COLOR][COLOR=#0000FF][/COLOR]