Flash text does not align

I ran into another weird issue again in flash.  Here is what the text looks like in the flash authoring environment

authoring text

and here is what it looks like when it is published

Very odd.  I took it upon myself to find the solution and it actually came pretty quick, and with further investigation I found the actual problem as well.

The fix that I found to align the text back up with itself was to set the text anti-aliasing to be “anti-aliasing for animation” rather than “anti-aliasing for readability”.

The reason that the text was not aligning was because I had inadvertently set a -.3 degree rotation to the text box.  It wasn’t enough that it was noticable in flash authoring, but when flash rendered the text for readability, it became noticiable when I published the file.

So my advice, when you have text alignment issues, first check that you haven’t added a rotation to it, and if you haven’t you can at least set the text to anti-aliasing for animation and that should fix it, otherwise set your rotation back to zero and you will be good to go.