title: Flash: Antialiasing characters on dynamic textfields without embedding fonts, in japanese
body: <p>I'm trying to achieve antialiasing on dynamic textfields in flash on a Japanese site. The content of these textfields is not fixed data.</p>
  
  <p>I don't have the option to embed the fonts, since embeddeding all characters will result in a very heavy swf file(3000kb+ just for the fonts). This is due to the fact that there's a large number of unique characters in japanese(literally thousands). </p>
  
  <p>Basically, any flash site using dynamic textfields faces the same choice:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>keep the filesize down and use
  only Device Fonts (without
  antialiasing)</li>
  <li>force a 3mb+ font download to the user
  to display smooth antialiased fonts.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>I've asked around to some japanese friends, and they said "Shoganai!" (translation: "can't be helped"). Anybody have ideas?</p>
  
  <p>ps: unfortunately, silverlight is not an option either.</p>