TextRotation: How to rotate a textSymbol or graphic?

[PaulRichards]

Hi,
     Is it possible to rotate a textSymbol ' using the "angle" property?  I am unable to rotate the textSymbol by specifying the angle property.  I'd already tried using the rotation property of graphic but end up with font embedding issues. Is it possible to rotate the text graphics w/o embedding the fonts viz...

Thanks...
Paul

[SarthakDatt]

In the 1.x version of the Flex api (built on flex 3 sdk), rotation(angle) and transparency(alpha) worked only with embedded fonts.

But with a new text engine in Flex 4, it allows us to do integrated rendering on device fonts(both rotation and alpha supported). The current version of the api, does not take advantage of it. But it would be there in the next release.

-- Sarthak Datt