AS3 custom TextField text is being drawn outside its textWidth - actionscript-3

Question

So this one is a little hard to explain. I have a custom Text class that automatically resizes and sets the width of the text when you change its value. I then take that Text and draw it on a Bitmap to scale it up to make the text look pixelated.
I have a property called maxWidth that allows you to restrict the width of the text if you want it to maintain a certain width. By default the maxWidth is the width of the text's parent so that it doesn't get cut off or expand the parent's boundaries unexpectedly.
So unfortunately when I draw the text it sometimes gets cut off on the right side. Now I've checked all the values and the width and textWidth are showing up as within their maxWidth values, but when I take a look myself through screenshots I see the text is actually about 3 pixels wider than it should be.
Here's an image to better explain what I mean:
I turned on borders so you can easily see what I mean. The word "and" on the first line gets drawn outside its border. Here is the line of code that handles resizing text when you change its bounds.
override protected function checkResize(value:String):void {
var bufferWidth:uint = Math.floor(Number(defaultTextFormat.size) / bufferDivisor) + bufferMin;
var maxWidth:Number = this.maxWidth;
x = y = 0;
if (parent is Stage) {
var stageParent:Stage = Stage(parent);
super.width = stageParent.stageWidth;
super.height = stageParent.stageHeight;
if (maxWidth == 0) maxWidth = stageParent.stageWidth;
}
else {
super.width = parent.width;
super.height = parent.height;
if (maxWidth == 0) maxWidth = parent.width;
}
maxWidth = maxWidth / scale;
text = value;
if (textWidth + bufferWidth <= maxWidth) super.width = textWidth + bufferWidth;
else super.width = maxWidth;
super.height = textHeight + 4;
if (textSnapshot) updateSnapshot();
if (alignRelation) Align.alignTo(textSprite, alignRelation, alignDirection, alignXOffset, alignYOffest);
}
And for this text specifically the width value states it's 512, which is correct since that's the maxWidth. However if you notice the top line in the text, it goes beyond the 512 width border, it actually goes all the way to 515 even though it says its width is 512. Even more bizarre is the textWidth states it's 510.4 even though the first line goes well beyond that amount. I just want to know if I'm doing anything wrong or if there's a way to get a true textWidth value.

Answer 1

This seems to be related to embedding fonts, at least it was when I had the same problem. A workaround is to set the right margin of the text field, like so
var tf:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
tf.rightMargin = 10; // or whatever fixes your problem, e.g. relate it to font size
textField.setTextFormat(tf);