First Timer & Couple questions

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Hi All! First timer here. I started using Flash/AS3 about 6 months ago and have been developing with it pretty much non-stop ever since. Ive never used AS2 or any other Flash technologies. Half the time when I google a Flash question, I end up at Kirupa forums, so I figured its about time I joined :slight_smile:

So Ive got a few questions to get started:

  1. When I run my flash program within the CS3 authoring tool, it runs at a decent speed. But when I publish the program and run it from a browser (either FF or IE), it runs much much slower. Is it not the same Flash runtime? I dont understand why its slower, or how to speed it up.

  2. I needed a TextField to be semi-transparent so I embedded the font. Now the text is screwed up. Specifically, the text actually appears outside of the TextField border, which makes no sense at all. The wierdest thing is if I zoom in, and then zoom back out, the text fixes itself and looks normal. The ONLY difference between the text being messed up and not being messed up is that I have the font embedded (embedFonts = true; ).