Dynamic Text Looks Crooked

I am loading text from xml file into dynamic text field .
xml file use the cdata e.g.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<section><description><![CDATA[<li>Gender</li><li>Male</li><textFormat leftmargin="20">History<li>Eye</li>]]></description></section>
but the fonts appeares crooked even If I embed them in fla.
In anti-alias I used Anti-alias for readability. Select Render text as HTML.
(crooked means the display is bad)
How to fix this problem?

you're probably not embedding your font or the font family/size isn't sharp.
to test, apply a rotation of 3 to your textfield and check if the font is visible.

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<[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Franz for all your help, sorry I wish I knew
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