Jabby, I’ve actually talked with the buzzword guys on a couple occasions in the past.

One of the areas they spent a lot of time developing was a custom text layout engine. They actually lay out every word (or maybe every character I forget the detail they work at). Unless you’re making a kick ass word processor I’m betting that approach is cost prohibitive.

It only happens at my application when the font size is set to 10 pixels. If font size is set to 12 or more pixels, flash.text.TextField wraps the text correctly under different zoom levels.

I set xScale and yScale properties for the container too to achieve different zoom levels.

I will prepare a screencast for you tomorrow to illustrate my case.

Meanwhile, you can approach the developers of Buzzword application and ask them how do they deal with this situation, I am interested to find the best solution too as I had found out today )

package
{

import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.text.TextFormat;
import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;
import flash.text.AntiAliasType;
import flash.display.BitmapData;
import flash.display.Bitmap;
import flash.text.Font;
import FFFPhantom01;

public class StringToBitmap extends Sprite
{

private static var _sprite:Sprite;
private static var _textFormat:TextFormat;
private static var _textField:TextField;
private static var _bitmapData:BitmapData;
private static var _bitmap:Bitmap;

public static function textFormatter():void
{
_textFormat = new TextFormat();
_textFormat.font = “FFF Phantom 01″;
_textFormat.size = 12;
_textFormat.color = 0xFFFFFF;
};

public static function stringToBitmap(string:String):Bitmap
{
_sprite = new Sprite();
_textField = new TextField();
_textField.embedFonts = true;
_textField.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;
_textField.sharpness = 400;
_textField.thickness = -150;
_textField.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
_textField.text = string;
_textField.setTextFormat(_textFormat);
_sprite.addChild(_textField);
_bitmapData = new BitmapData(_sprite.width, _sprite.height, true, 0xFFFFFF);
_bitmapData.draw(_sprite);
_bitmap = new Bitmap(_bitmapData);

return _bitmap;
};

};
};