Faux bold doesn't work in CS4

In CS3, I can create a clip with 2 dynamic text fields - fld1
is say, Myriad Pro and fld2 is Myriad Pro with faux bold turned on
from the properties panel. I can then do...
fld1.htmlText = <b>Bold text</b>
and fld1 text appears in bold text because the faux bold font
was embedded in fld2.
CS4 doesn't have a faux bold, and when I go to the text menu
and choose bold, it doesn't faux bold fld2, it actually changes the
text to Myriad Pro Bold. The bold tag no longer works, neither does
the strong tag. I can, however, use font face tag and set it to
Myriad Pro Bold, and now fld1 will show up bold.
Now let's say I want to put all my text content in an
external XML file so the client can update it and I don't want to
have to explain the inner workings of Flash and tell them that they
can't use the bold tag, they have to use the font face tag and set
it to some random name that I come up with for the bold font
library symbol (in case we don't want to use Myriad in the future).
Do I really have to set up a function to examine strings for
the bold tag and replace it with the font face tag? Is there really
no way to get the bold tag to work?

Hi monkeeboy
Wow, this has had me really thinking hard and doing a lot of testing and I think I have the answer.
Believe it or not my posted example is actually working. That said, there is an issue.
The way Flash renders the bold version of the font is almost imperceptible. You can see this if you zoom in on the Flash file in the Flash Player.
I also tested it with the italic face and it works fine and is much clearer to see. In the images you posted it is also working but looks more like the font is a slightly different color, as I said almost imperceptible.
I have added 2 screen grabs below (both taken with the font turned off in the system), one with the swf at its normal size and the other zoomed in by control clicking on the swf and selecting zoom in. It is quite clear in the zoomed in one that Flash is using the corect versions of the font and they are being correctly accessed in HTMLtext using <b> and <i>. However, I agree, the way Flash renders the bold face is not bold enough and also not consistent.
So the problem really is the way Flash renders embedded fonts, especially bold faces. I have realised this is more of a problem than I thought as I did a test and found it varies a lot.
If you create a static text field using the embedded bold font, a static text field using the bold face without embedding the font, and using the method I described earlier, the rendered weight is different every time. This is something I am going back to the team with to look at.
One thing that might help you int the future is that with Flash Player 10 we have included a seperate and new text engine that is based on the Adobe text engine found in apps like InDesign. This is finally a trully high end text engine that supports a huge list of features and renders beautifully. To access it currently in Flash CS4 you have to use ActinScript, however on Labs, we have added a beta version of the Text Layout Framework component - http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/textlayout/ This provides an interface in Flash to implement the new feature.
Cheers

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