Flash :: Polish Fonts With Dynamic Text

Polish Fonts In Flash MX
Hi!

I need some help here.....i have a Word.doc with polish characters (in Times Roman), and i need to copy the Text from the Word.doc into my Flash Animation. The problem is, Flash seems to be unable to display some polish characters properly. i have tried zo save the .doc as Unicode but it doesnt help too. Can anyone help?

Thanks a billion,
faulhaber

Alt-Gr A For Polish Text Input
I have a Polish user who needs to enter text into a Flash input text field.. and AltGr-A (right Alt key plus A)pulls up the Internet Explorer "Add to Favorites" menu. Is there a work around for this? Or a setting he can change??

Static Text (device Fonts) Vs. Dynamic Text (anti-alias Non-embedded)
Any thoughts on which is better to use?

When i use static text and device fonts (arial) the text looks great. The text doesn't change so no need to be dynamic.

Or

I use dynamic text (arial) non-embedded and it looks good too. The text doesn't change but leaving it as dynamic makes it render better.

How Can I Get As Nice And Smooth Fonts In Dynamic Text As In The Static Text?
I have movie clip with dynamic text and static text. I am using same font, size and color. The static texts looks great but the dynamic one is not. How can I get smoot fonts within dynamic text???
Thanx....

Fonts Of Dynamic Text
Hi,
I am using Flash MX. I have a few dynamic texts arranged horizontally in a movieclip. The database table fileds that are used to populate these textx thru ASP are of varying length (like int of length 4, char of length 50)... I have kept teh following settings for all the dynamic text fields:

Font: 16, Times New Roman,
Render Text as HTMl : checked.
Normal and Single line.
Character: none

The widths of all the text are same. When i dispaly it thru web page, the font size is not uniform, basically it decreases from left to right....

I made the dynamic texts property to multiline. tried font _sans but still no difference....

any help!!. I want all of tehm to look unifirm with teh same font irrespective of what the database field format is....

Thanks
shilps

Dynamic Text Fonts
I know that if the user doesn't have the font on their computer, then it downloads I guess and shows anyways, but it doesn't seem to be the same for dynamic fonts and inputs. How can I make sure they'll show with the font I want in a dynamic text box? An input box?

Dynamic Text - Fonts?
I have made a couple of websites with my new found Flash knowledge and thought that Flash embedded the fonts in some way shape or form so that it didn't matter if the person reading the site had the font or not. I have just had a client complain that the dynamic text on their website is times new roman and not Frutiger as on the home page. ( http://www.celect.biz ) As they wanted a lot of text on their site I have used dynamic text and a scroll bar, so I can't even outline the text. I have another site where I have used the same method so that it probably suffering the same problem, as the type face I have used on that is even less mainstream. ( http://www.annagooch.co.uk )

Any help with this embarrassing problem would be most appreciated.

Regards

Ralph Ferrand

Dynamic Text Fonts...
hi, does anybody know if i have to use regular fonts that exist on every computer for dynamic text, because i saw a page that had dynamic text on a computer that didnt have that font and it looked pretty crap...
is there a way to still use the font i want and that it will look the same on other computers???
appreciate the help

Dynamic Text/ Fonts
When I download new font and use them in my movies as dynamic text, they don't seem to appear as the original text when I publish it on the server. Instead the text shows on other computers as a default Times new roman. On my computer, the movie shows the downloaded text in movies just fine, but on other computers, the movies uses times new roman. How may I tackle this?

Tks
Ken

Dynamic Text And Fonts
Tried to create a dynamic text field but then realized I cant embed the font the usual way (i.e. the properties panel). Anyone know how this is done? Here's what I got so far....

this.createEmptyMovieClip("btn", 1);
btn.createTextField("txt", 10, 0, 0, 100, 50);
txt.autoSize = true;
btn.txt.embedFonts;
btn.txt.text = "Press";

btn.txt.setNewTextFormat(myFormat);

myFormat ????

Fonts (dynamic Text)
hy!

I have a litte problem with fonts. I am using Dynamic text, verdana 12...it works perfectly but when I change the resolution screen to 800x600 i can't read the text.....

Help me please!!

Dynamic Text Field Fonts Etc
Hi

Can I assign the Dynamic Text Field to a Style Sheet???

I am importing text in the dynamic text field using a text file, with the font set as TAHOMA.

Works great in PC, not in the MAC.

Does anyone have any suggestions how I get around this, as, it seems the client wants TAHOMA as the font.

Thanks,

Sam

Fonts In Dynamic Text Fields
Can you specify font, font size and color in a a dynamic text field?

If so, how?

Thanks-

Coffeeld

Can I Embed Fonts For Dynamic Text?
I noticed my web page looks fine on my computer. I just looked at it on another computer for the first time. Any place that has dynamic text, the other computer substituted some really bad alternatives. How can I get around this?

Using Embedded Fonts For Dynamic Text
I'm obviously missing something, but how do you use embedded fonts in text fields that are generated dynamically? Thanks in advance for any help.

Embedded Fonts In Dynamic Text Box
I have a movie clip, and inside the clip is a dynamic text box and some arrows. I have action scrip on the movie clip allowing the text box to scroll.

I have an arrow in my text (in a Web Dings font). Even with the embedded fonts outline turned on I'm still not seeing the correct Web Dings arrow (it reverts back to the letter "u")

Does anyone know how to get the embedded fouts outline to work when using this technique?

On this URL, you can see the "u" which should be a Web Ding:
http://www.delinea.com/layouts/solutions/arrow.html

Sources files:
http://www.delinea.com/layouts/solutions/arrow.fla
http://www.delinea.com/layouts/solutions/arrow_text.fla

Thanks.
Michelle

Dynamic Text + Fonts Question
Hi there.

I'm trying to get a variable to load into an array from a text file. I assume that the syntax is like any other array:

variable[x]=stuff

so i make a text file that is :

&variable[0]=firstitem
&variable[1]=seconditem

etc.

after that action, i want to set it up so that when my array is displayed in flash, it should be in a specific font. how is that done?? can it be done?

thanks in advance.

Pixel Fonts And Dynamic Text
I use these great fonts that I downloaded from miniml.com and they work fine static. However, for dynamic text they don't appear correctly when the font isn't installed on the user's machine. I know the font is embeded because i checked the report. And the miniml.com site has no problem doing it for their preloaders. I don't know what to do.
Any one ever deal with this issue?

Dynamic Text / Fonts Issue
Hi,
I'm using a pixel font in my site called Nokia cellphone, which unsuprisingly looks like text on a Nokia cellphone. Or at least it does when I use static text boxes. As soon as I use dynamic text boxes pulling in text files, the font does not show up on a PC that doesn't have it installed. What's the deal? I thought Flash embedded fonts in the swf by default, unless you specify that you want it to use device fonts?
Why does it show the font on PCs (without it installed) for static text, but not dynamic?
Am I missing something??

Thanks in advance

Dynamic Text Fonts At Runtime
I hope that someone can help me with this question:

In a site that I am currently working on, the text for the menu will be dynamic text that will be bound from external XML data at load time.

My question is: that when the site is being served on the internet from a web server, will any special fonts used have to be installed on the client machines in order to see them or will they be viewable if the fonts are on the server?

I hope that makes some sense!

Dynamic Text Fonts And Colours
When you are using a dynamic scrolling text box to show an external .txt file, can you create the file in Word or something else so that fonts/colours can be changed. At the moment the .txt file is in notepad, and you can't seem to change the text features.

Changing Fonts With Dynamic Text
I'm having a heck of a time trying to figure out how to change fonts of some text in a dynamic text field with a button. The end goal: users can click on different font names to see the text in different fonts. I got it to work one way but the file size is huge! any help?

-B. Thorne
bthorne@drawingboardad.com

i can post the .swf for viewing

Dynamic Text But Embedded Fonts? [MX]
Ok so I have these external HTML files with loads of text. And all the pages are rendered with actionscript.

But I'd like to embed proprietary fonts (fonts that will not be available on clients computer).

How do I go about this - I know that FMX can embed the font outlines in an .fla file, but since the text in this case is dynamic (ie. loaded, textField is created at runtime etc etc), how can I make flash embed these more exotic fonts?!?

Pixel Fonts In Dynamic Text
I have a dynamic text field that I am importing a .txt into using the loadVars method.
For the life of me I cant get the damn text to appear clear, its still blurry. I have made sure that the textfield is on whole X-Y numbers, and I have even made sure that the empty MC that is calling the .swf that loads the .txt is even on whole X-Y numbers.

For now I am just using _sans font, as it looks the clearest. But I want to use the pixel font that I have been using thoughout the site to keep the continuity. Any one have any better ideas.

Jagged Fonts When Using Dynamic Text>>?
Hi Flash holics.
Does anybody how what to do when you publish a beautiful flash file containing dynamic text and that the HTML file looks crappy.
How can I get some clean and sharp fonts ?

Thks

Dynamic Text And Embedding Fonts
Hi,

I got a dynamic text field that displays text from a database linked to the swf with asp and a load of database crap. It works fine and all but it stops working all together once i've embedded the font. Its a bit bizarre but thats the only thing i'm changing, just embedding all the standard letters. Am using mx 2004.

Any help would be good and appreciated.

Steven.

Embedding Dynamic Text Fonts
I have a flash game that reads the questions and their answers from an external text field. The game takes a question from the text file and puts in a String object. The game displays that String in a dynamic text field. When I do not embed all font outlines for the dynamic text field, the font I chose does not display when the user is on a computer that doesn't have the font preinstalled. When I do embed the font outlines, nothing shows up on any computer.

What am I doing wrong?

I made a zip file which contains my fla, swf, txt, and font files. You can access it at http://members.cox.net/twlip/gameshow.zip if you would like to take a look.

Pixel Fonts In Dynamic Text.
I am using dynamic text with pixel font (html/action script)
When I look at the site from a different computer, the font appears in a different way, how can I embed the font to look the same on every platform.

Dynamic Text And Embebbed Fonts
Hi, I've made a movie which has a mixture of 'static text' and 'dynamic text' on the same timeline. However the font is not a system font - it is an LCD style font. They both appear on my PC with the font installed, but on other machines without the font installed, the dynamic text defaults to 'Times'....

Why does static text show the LCD font, and the dynamic doesn't?

Is there a way to get the dynamic text to use my font?

Cheers

Rob

Ugly Dynamic Text Fonts
Relatively new Flash MX 2004 user. Please look at the
link to my swf.

Trying to pass the Flash banner text from action script to the dynamic text box on the right, and I can't seem to get this font clear (like with static text). I've tried using a font symbol from the library, and I've specified the ranges for the font outlines. As it stands, it looks very ugly.

Is there any way I can pull this off, or does this happen whenever you embed font outlines (required to do an alpha fade on the text)? Works fine when I don't embed font outlines, but of course I have to scrap the alpha fade. Thanks.

Fonts In Dynamic Text Mode :P
alright, i got this site that im working on and i prefer to use dynamic text rather then static text because it just looks so much cleaner. so my problem is, when ever i export my swf and open the movie up using an html file, the font that i've used in the movie doesn't show up on pc's that don't have that font in the windowsfonts directory. is there a way to keep the clean look of dynamic text in a flash movie without getting that default times roman font with viewers who don't have that font?

pls help, thx always and in advance

Embedding Fonts For Dynamic Text?
Hello,
if i have 20 dynamic text feilds in separate movie clips, do i need to embed the fonts for each textbox, or if i do it once will it effect all of the textboxes, since they are calling the same font?

thanks,
q

Embedding Fonts In Dynamic Text
could somebody cler something up for me please -I thought that if I include a font outline for some dynamic text then the user at the other end wont have to have the same font on their computer?

the reason I ask is because ive got a dynamic text field that Ive embeded the font for. At work it looks one way - when i come home and view it here the text is sightlly different and the text is longer! (as if its using the font from my computer)?!

I thought if I embedded fonts it would have a universal look on all computers

thanks or your help

Embedding Fonts For Dynamic Text.
Hi,

I am having a problem embedding the fonts for text which i have created dynamically. I am creating the text format and text field in a class file, then using a create Text function. I pass the create Text function all the attributes related to the text. In the the create Text function i also define other attributes such as selectable.
I have tried using embedFonts = true; However this then causes none of the text to appear.

Does anyone know of a solution to this problem?

Thanks

Dynamic Text Embeding Fonts 8(
I am rebuilding our site so that people who don't know anything about flash can update any text on the site via xml files. So the text has to be dynamic. I am currently creating all the text fields in action script and populating them dynamically. That part works fine. Where I am having a hard time is getting the fonts in these text fields to embed.

I have tried a few things. First thing I tried was just creating a text box off stage in the actual authoring environment (drawing environment) with the font and setting that text box to embed all the capitol, lowercase and puncuation sets for the font. That didn't do the trick (though it seems like it should). So the next thing I have tried is using the textField.embedFonts=true; statement.

tween_MC.createTextField("news",1,0,0,200,200);
tween_MC.news.multiline=true;
tween_MC.news.wordWrap=true;
tween_MC.news.html=true;
tween_MC.embedFonts=true;
//tween_MC.news.setTextFormat(style_ticker);
tween_MC.news.htmlText="Looking for a strange font";
tween_MC.news.setTextFormat(style);

Here is the stub code that I test with. Of course on my computer it looks fine because I have the font that is described in style. However, if I view the online version on a different computer the text box has a default system font.

Anybody who knows how to fix this would be my new best friend 8). Thanks in advance to any who take the time to read this and reply.

Danny

Formatting Fonts To Fit In Dynamic Text
Hi all.

Got some dynamic text fields set up on my flash movie that show
company names and stuff. However some of the names of the companies are too long to display properly. and i was wondering if anyone had a formula to change font size based on how long the string is. Either px or characters. I basically want the font in the textbox to autosize so it always fits within the constraints outlined by the box.

Any help?

THANKS

Fonts Huge In Dynamic Text Box
I have a dynamic text box reading a text file for content. The box itself is set for _sans font.

On the machine I created it on, everything works fine. Bring it to work, everything looks fine.

Duplicate the efforts....in a different file and now the actual font inside of the dynamic text box is HUGE.

The new file is reading the exact same text file as the other.

I thought it was a font issue, but on three different machines, the results are the same.

Without getting into a bunch of other code, has anyone had this problem and discovered what the problem was?

Obviously, if it's syntax, that needs code examples, but I wanted to ask first in case someone thought "Oh, yeah, that happened and it was because of.."

I learned you can't put a conditional inside an event handler unless you call that conditional as a function. No code needed to learn that one!

Thanks for any ideas.

Dynamic Text- Fonts Look Wierd In Swf
When I create dynamic text, (selectable, multiline, render for HTML), they look squished and "bitmapped" in the swf. Even if they look like they are supposed to, in Flash itself. The same happens for any font i put in, even bitmap fonts. How do I get the fonts to show up the way they're supposed to look- WITHOUT making them static?

this is an example of a static textbox (the way it should look) vs. dynamic:
http://www.music.neu.edu/new/test.swf

Thanks!

Dynamic Text Box With Multiple Fonts
This is what I have read so far:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mortimer Jazz

Here you go...
If you specify a font-family in your CSS file ensure that it only has a single value - which must be the name of the font you have embedded.

If you do want to list more than one font for any reason (for example: font-family: Arial, Verdana then you must *not* embed the font in your main text box[es], but instead create separate textboxes, one for each font, and embed one font in each of those.

Cheers,
N

Here is my question:
I have a dynamic text box that I am "populating" using a quasi xml file (saved as .html). I also use CSS to to format the text. The problem is one of the fonts I am using is a pixel font which I'm sure most users dont have. So I have to embed it. Now when I do this my other fonts dissappear. Is the only work-around (as I think mortimer suggested) to make several text boxes and embed each font seperately? This would be a nightmare for formatting.

Here is a sample of my files:

HTML Code:
<body>
<name>Harry Potter</name>
<category>Education</category>
<year>2004</year><t> Dumble dorf</t>
<year>2003</year><t> Wiches R US</t>
<year>2002</year><t> School for wizards</t>
 
</body>

Code:
name {
font-size: 14px;
color: #FFFFFF;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
year {
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
display: inline;
font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
color: #FFFFCC;
}
t {
// this is my pixel font code
color: #FFFF99;
}

Embedding Two Fonts In One Dynamic Text Box
okay anybody out there? i really need this question answered...i have a dynamic text box that i need to have two different fonts embedded in...it's dynamic because it needs to scroll, and therefore i have to use font embedding, but i cannot figure out how to embed two fonts in one text box....HELP

2 Fonts In 1 Dynamic Text Field
I have html text being pulled in from an XML file, and sometimes they want to use symbols (which are available in Arial Greek) but don't show up in the text (html) field (flash doens't know what the & rho; is).

We have another font that is strictly for the symbols. So what I'd like to do is have the Arial as the base font, and use css and spans to tell Flash to use another font... is this possible? and if so, I have NO idea how to do it LOL (embed both fonts in one text field);

Dynamic Text Fonts Problem
(flash mx 2004 professional educational edition)

I am dynamically creating textfields and am wanting to apply a certain font depending on various types of data that I load in from xml. I am currently using a chinese font PMingLiU. It is a good type font, but I am trying to load "AR PL KaitiM Big5", which is a great handwritten font. This is for a flash card program I am working on to help with Chinese, and I think it would be a little more useful for people if it used the handwritten font instead of the type font.

Problem: The text field doesn't seam to apply the "AR PL KaitiM Big5" font, but it does the "PMingLiU" font just fine. PMingLiU: .ttc ; AR PL KaitiM Big5: ttf

I think it is because of the space, but I tried renaming the font with fontNamer, (I changed it to ARPLKaitiMBig5), but that didn't seam to make a difference. Any ideas?

Here is the code, and if you need the font I can send it, (I think). I don't quite know where I got the pmingliu font.

(the characters show up in flash but wont work here. They are just wo shi, and zhong. Any character will do for the test though)

//‰ä¥
//AR PL KaitiM Big5
var tempTF:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
tempTF.size = 36;
//tempTF.font = "AR PL KaitiM Big5";
//tempTF.font = "ARPLKaitiMBig5";
//tempTF.font = "PMingLiU";
_root.createTextField("chin_txt",_root.getNextHigh estDepth(),0,0,400,400);
_root.chin_txt.setNewTextFormat(tempTF);
_root.chin_txt.text += "’†";

--BackBayChef

Fonts Problems In Dynamic Text
Hi,

i´m having some problems with some characters in a dynamic text field in a projector CD. they are working in a rollover action for buttons, like:

ActionScript Code:
on (rollover) textfield=épic;

In my Pc and MAC, the fonts are all Ok, but the cliente said that some characters like é, ç , á... are showing like $, #, /.
I tryed making the fonts embed, but they are not showing anymore in the text field. i´m not sure if this could be the solution either.

How do I solve this?

thanks for any help

Embedded Fonts And Dynamic Text
I've noticed that Flash embeds fonts for buttons and movies, but I have a couple of text boxes that dont have the correct font. (if you want to know what I'm talking about, check out http://web.mit.edu/lavaboy/www/newsite.html)
The text were it says Welcome to Raf's page, and the scroll thing at the bottom doesnt have the correct font..
Is there a way to fix this? The scroll is a dynamic textbox inside a movie clip.

Thanks

Embedding Fonts For Dynamic Text
I can't seem to get the font I want embedded into my file working right. I have a few text boxes that I using the dynamic text option and the using the HTML tags to format it the way I want it to look. I only use one font, but I can't seem to get it to embedded into my flash file, every time i have someone else look at the font it just substitutes something in there for it. How do i prevent this from happening, I thought I knew but I guess I don't
Thanks

Pixel Fonts For Dynamic Text
Im having trouble getting my pixel fonts to work in Flash. They appear, however, they tend to get blurry. Visit www.dougseidman.com to view the fonts on the bottom left in the scroll bar to see what I mean. Does anyone know how to make them sharper? Also, has anyone ever had any problems with viewing their Flash movie? It takes about a half hour to view the SWF file, and my file is very small. I am also working on a very fast computer. It has been very frustrating. If anyone knows how to fix these problems, that wold be great! Thank you.

Doug

Dynamic Text, CSS And Embedded Fonts.
So I've been trolling for too long and am finally going to post.

Is it actually possible to use embedded fonts (non system pixel fonts) with dynamically loaded text and change the font using an external CSS file!??! I've been searching and can't find a thing.

Html + Dynamic Text + Fonts
Is there a way of use like this bellow

Code:
font = "Della Robia ";
font += "Decker ";
font += "Docu";
in a dynamic text box?
It works if you have the font installed on your system but if you dont i dont work is there a way to embed 3 fonts in one text box?