Over on the Adobe live docs page on embedding fonts and anti-aliasing there is plenty of help on how to go about getting elements looking good.

Firstly, is it really necessary to embed standard web fonts to do anti-aliasing? Seems a bit overkill, since 99.9% of users must have these fonts…thats why they are standard web fonts. It increases the size of each application and creates more work/processing. Lets just have an option to make text anti-aliased and be done with it.

Secondly, is it just me or do the examples on the Adobe page clearly show buttons with dreadfully pixelated text. Sure, the labels looks good. But try making the text of a button, or a tab or a progress bar label anti-aliased. It just doesn’t work. This is fine for applications that do not use any of these items. But for everything else, it seems like a bit of an irritating gap.

I ended up using images or simple labels to get round this.