Smoothing animatinon of cacheAsBitmap objects

[tehfailsafe]

Working on a few slow and small distance tweens where I need to have a blur effect on some text. Doing so forces flash to cache the text as a bitmap and as such it cannot display on in-between whole pixels, like x=1.25 etc. So there is a very noticeable jagged stepping to the motion as it slides from whole pixel to whole pixel.

 

The blur effect is necessary to the client and it is a banner so I'm running into filesize limitations which prevent me from blurring it in Photoshop and bringing in the asset as a bitmap...

Is there a work around for this?

[GreenSock]

The only thing I can think of is to use BitmapData to draw() things on each frame and apply the filter to the BitmapData. Basically do blitting. It is cumbersome, though. If you Google blitting in AS3, it should get you lots of results.

[tehfailsafe]

Unfortunately it's also limited to flash8 and AS2.

[GreenSock]

If my memory serves me correctly, BitmapData is available in FP8/AS2