BitmapFont is a cross-platform bitmap font implementation. It allows you to create text fields and customize several graphical aspects, such as background color, shadow, alignment, scale, padding and color.

The set of classes is heavily based on classes from Pixelizer.

Sample

package
{
	import flash.display.Sprite;
	import flash.events.Event;
	import flash.events.MouseEvent;

	import pxBitmapFont.PxBitmapFont;
	import pxBitmapFont.PxTextAlign;
	import pxBitmapFont.PxTextField;

	/**
	 * ...
	 * @author Zaphod
	 */
	public class Main extends Sprite
	{

		[Embed(source = "../assets/fontData10pt.png")]
		private var FontImage:Class;

		private var fontString:String;

		private var tf:PxTextField;
		private var tf2:PxTextField;

		public function Main():void
		{
			if (stage) init();
			else addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
		}

		private function init(e:Event = null):void
		{
			removeEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
			// entry point

			fontString = " !\"#$%&'()*+,-./" + "0123456789:;?" + "@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO" + "PQRSTUVWXYZ[]^_" + "abcdefghijklmno" + "pqrstuvwxyz{|}~\\";
			var font:PxBitmapFont = new PxBitmapFont((new FontImage()).bitmapData, fontString);

			tf = new PxTextField();
			addChild(tf);
			tf.color = 0x0000ff;
			tf.background = true;
			tf.backgroundColor = 0x00ff00;
			tf.text = "Hello World!\nand this is\nmultiline!!!";
			tf.shadow = true;
		//	tf.outlineColor = 0x0000ff;
			tf.width = 250;
			tf.alignment = PxTextAlign.CENTER;
			tf.multiLine = true;
			tf.lineSpacing = 5;
			tf.fontScale = 2.5;
			tf.padding = 5;
			tf.scaleX = tf.scaleY = 2.5;
		//	tf.alpha(0.5);

			tf2 = new PxTextField(font);
			tf2.y = 100;
			addChild(tf2);
			tf2.color = 0x0000ff;
			tf2.background = true;
			tf2.backgroundColor = 0x00ff00;
			tf2.text = "Hello World!\nand this is\nmultiline!!!";
			tf2.shadow = true;
		//	tf2.shadowColor = 0xff0000;
			tf2.outlineColor = 0xff0000;
			tf2.width = 610;
			tf2.alignment = PxTextAlign.RIGHT;
			tf2.lineSpacing = 5;
			tf2.fontScale = 2.5;
			tf2.padding = 20;
			tf2.letterSpacing = 25;
			tf2.autoUpperCase = true;
			tf2.multiLine = true;
			tf2.wordWrap = true;
			tf2.fixedWidth = false;
			tf2.text = "Hello!" + "\n\n" + "world!";
		//	tf2.scaleX = tf2.scaleY = 2.5;
		//	tf2.alpha(0.5);

			stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, onMouseMove);
		}

		private function onMouseMove(e:MouseEvent):void
		{
			tf.text = "mouseX = " + Math.floor(e.localX);
		//	tf2.text = "mouseY = " + Math.floor(e.localY) + "; mouseX = " + Math.floor(e.localX) + ";\n" + "mouseY = " + Math.floor(e.localY) + "\n" + "mouseY = " + Math.floor(e.localY);
		}

	}

}