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Switching back to 2D from 3D

In Flash 10 display objects can be transformed in the 3D space. That’s very nice, but due to the implementation the appearence of an objects can become a little bit different (blurry) after transforming it in 3D (changing its z, rotationX/Y/Z property, etc.), even if the object is reverted exactly in the same position as it was before the 3D transformation. Actually when an object is transformed in 3D space Flash takes a bitmap snapshot of its content and this bitmap is what transformed and displayed in real. In order to raise the bitmap’s quality a smoothing is applied to it, and this smoothing causes the difference and the blur. It is noticable especially on textfields.
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