[FLEX-25166] Using textDecoration = underline and textAlign = center on a Text control with Arial as an embedded font yields inconsistent underline lengths

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: Adobe Flex SDK 3.5 (Release)
• Component/s: mx: Text
• Environment: Affected OS(s): Windows; Affected OS(s): Windows XP; Browser: Internet Explorer 7.x; Language Found: English
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Adobe JIRA
• Created: 01/Sep/10 10:47
• Updated: 01/Sep/10 10:49

Description

Steps to reproduce:

1. Compile the attached MXML file.

Actual Results:

The underline length falls short for the embedded Arial font when the font size is 12 or less.

Expected Results:

The underline is the same length as the textWidth, that is to say, the line length.

Workaround (if any):

This appears to be a consistent bug across all systems I've tried, granted these are all running XP Pro SP3. Using a font size larger than 12 solves this problem, as shown in the attached image, but this may not be desirable in some (okay a lot) of cases. Ditto with using a different font. Arial is pretty ubiquitous, so one would expect to see this issue pop up more often.