Change the width of a character to match the size of a TextField

Question

I've read tons of posts about setting the size of a TextField to match the width of the string containing it. I'm looking for a way to do it the other way around. The TextField in my application should have a fixed with and I want to squeeze the text in it by changing the width of a single character.

The solution I'm working width now decreases the size of the font until it fits into the TextField, but I want to squeeze the text (so decreasing just width, not height) until it fits in the TextField. Any ideas how to achieve this?

Answer 1

I don't think it's possible to scale font on a single axis.

The only thing i could think of is to bake the text field and scale the resulting bitmap:

var tf:TextField = new TextField();
tf.text = "bitmap text";
var myBitmapData:BitmapData = new BitmapData(80, 20);
myBitmapData.draw(tf);
var bmp:Bitmap = new Bitmap(myBitmapData);
this.addChild(bmp);

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