I can’t reply to this older topic:
https://forums.coronalabs.com/topic/70969-stylized-text-lua-only-works-first-time-loaded/
so I had to start a new topic.
It took a while for Corona engineering to get back to me, and then a longer time for me to fix my code. I had to change the approach quite a bit since I was misunderstanding how display.capture() worked and at what time it could work.
If you download all the code from GitHub, the sample project now runs in both the Windows and Mac simulators:
https://github.com/prairiewest/corona_text_shadow
Todd