Flash :: Chinese Font Problem

Font Usage Question (Hoping For Advice And Recommendation On Chinese Font)
Hello guys,

1st of all, thank you for reading this post.

I've been assigned to develop my first flash chinese website (Translating it from the english version which is also flash) Technically using back 100% of fla files of eng ver.

Im loading text into dynamic textbox from .xml files. I understand .xml needs to set to UTF-8 etc and technically it's showing up.

On my 1st attempt, i went for _sans / _serif and paste in the text from microsoft word. I notice _sans _serif font cant use bitmap text option and the font appears really blurry.

I took my friend advice in going for Mingliu font, as he told me that anyone that can view chinese font on a pc should have Mingliu font (somehow universal)

Embedding anything is totally out of the question, as you know embeding chinese font will skyrocket the swf filesize.

So I was hoping for some advice. Objective will be get the file size as normal, font looks sharp and crisp.

Thank you all for reading again

Cheers

Font Usage Question (Chinese Font Advice)
Hello guys,

1st of all, thank you for reading this post.

I've been assigned to develop my first flash chinese website (Translating it from the english version which is also flash) Technically using back 100% of fla files of eng ver.

Im loading text into dynamic textbox from .xml files. I understand .xml needs to set to UTF-8 etc and technically it's showing up.

On my 1st attempt, i went for _sans / _serif and paste in the text from microsoft word. I notice _sans _serif font cant use bitmap text option and the font appears really blurry.

I took my friend advice in going for Mingliu font, as he told me that anyone that can view chinese font on a pc should have Mingliu font (somehow universal)

Embedding anything is totally out of the question, as you know embeding chinese font will skyrocket the swf filesize.

So I was hoping for some advice. Objective will be get the file size as normal, font looks sharp and crisp.

Thank you all for reading again

Cheers

Chinese Font? Which Font To Used? *confused*
Hello guys,

Pardon me if this question is really newbie like, but you prolly have expected since it's posted on "Flash Newbies" category hehe

I've been assign to develop a fully flash based website in chinese. (1st time)

So I'm really confused on which font to use, i've searched for help on several forums (ultrashock, actionscript, kirupa, etc.) but none is related to my topic.

I've followed advice from other members in copy pasting the chinese wording from microsoft word to flash (which works) and its displaying chinese words in the flash. My question is, which font should I use so that the font isn't blurry and looks crisp sharp (easier to read).

I've tried googling chinese pixel font, chinese font download etc.

Example font's i've downloaded and tried to use (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/ed...nese_fonts.htm) , i downloaded the font but it's not showing up in my flash 8. I tried using _sans & _serif , Both is okay lookin but still is blurry.

Putting it into photoshop and save it as an image and put it in flash isn't an option (I know it can be done, and prolly better). But due to how the fla is construct , i'm not allowed to do so..

For all of the above, the font is merely used on static text mode.

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2nd question.

A certain part of the flash site uses dynamic textbox and load .xml file into it. I understand that .xml needs to set to UTF-8 etc and it's showing up on the .swf. Also a question of which font to use for the dynamic textbox? I do not want to embed the fonts as it will increase the file size alot. So same question, how do I make it clean,sharp & crisp.

I'll be looking forward in hearing from you guys

Cheers

Chinese Font? Which Font To Used? *confused*
Hello guys,

I've been assign to develop a fully flash based website in chinese. (1st time)

So I'm really confused on which font to use, i've searched for help on several forums (ultrashock, flashkit, kirupa, etc.) but none is related to my topic.

I've followed advice from other members in copy pasting the chinese wording from microsoft word to flash (which works) and its displaying chinese words in the flash. My question is, which font should I use so that the font isn't blurry and looks crisp sharp (easier to read).

I've tried googling chinese pixel font, chinese font download etc.

Example font's i've downloaded and tried to use (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/e...inese_fonts.htm) , i downloaded the font but it's not showing up in my flash 8. I tried using _sans & _serif , Both is okay lookin but still is blurry.

Putting it into photoshop and save it as an image and put it in flash isn't an option (I know it can be done, and prolly better). But due to how the fla is construct , i'm not allowed to do so..

For all of the above, the font is merely used on static text mode.

-------

2nd question.

A certain part of the flash site uses dynamic textbox and load .xml file into it. I understand that .xml needs to set to UTF-8 etc and it's showing up on the .swf. Also a question of which font to use for the dynamic textbox? I do not want to embed the fonts as it will increase the file size alot. So same question, how do I make it clean,sharp & crisp.

I'll be looking forward in hearing from you guys

Cheers

Chinese Font
Hi, I've a Flash-Movi with german text. Now I've to exchange the german for chinese text, because the Flash-Movi should be send to china. I've no idea, what I've to attend. Do I need a chinese language-font, or is it enough to find a european font which supports chinese signs? Can chinese people read this?

It would be great, if there is someone who can help me.

Thank you very much.

Gretli

How To Change To Chinese Font?
I have this fla file that is dymanic text. Can anyone change it to chinese font instead of english?

Can I Embed Chinese Font?
Does anyone know how I can embed font outlines for Chinese? I have loaded teh text and it works great using system fonts but I need to embed the fonts so it will display on non-Chinese systems.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Chinese Font In Flash
how to embed chinese font in flash

List Tag In Chinese Font
Hi,

I am trying to display a list tag ("<li>") with "MS Mincho". But the
bullet is displayed wrong (the rect that appears when a character isn't
found). I tried to add all characters but it did not work.

TIA

Embedding Chinese Font (Please Help)
Hello guys,

Previously i posted a chinese font question, but no one answered. I'm still having alot of problems developing my 1st chinese flash website.

I notice http://www.ovalpartnership.com/ also has a chinese version, which i think they uses dynamic textbox and loads chinese text from .xml files.

I wonder how they keep their file size soo small and yet able to display crisp and nice chinese font. Did they embed the fonts? Whats their method of embeding?

Currently my swf is like 250kb. Having several dynamic textbox which loads the text from .xml file. After embeding the dynamic boxes with Traditional Chinese level 1 (5609 glyphs) it shot up to 1mb which is still acceptable. But i still have another dynamic box to embed, After embeding this box the file size shot up to 2.2mb. Then I notice certain specific word (chinese) weren't displaying at all (few missing words when displaying at swf)

Therefore I tried embeding Chinese (ALL) for 1st box which shot up to 2.5mb , after embeding 2nd box, the file size went 3.6mb which is totally not acceptable.

May I know what step can be taken to keep file size low, embedding the fonts smartly, displaying the font crisp and sharp.

I'm using Mingliu and PMingliu chinese font. I really dont care which font as long it keep file size low and look sharp and crisp.

Hope to hear from you guys..

I'm desperate for help =(

Help With Publishing Flash With Chinese Font
Help!

I am now working on a Flash that contains Chinese Fonts. It looks okay until i published it. Some of the chinese words became very ugly with shaded gaps in-between but some don't~ anyone has the same problem or is willing to help me?

Embedding Chinese Font (a Smarter Way?) Please Help
Hello guys,

'm still having alot of problems developing my 1st chinese flash website.

I notice http://www.ovalpartnership.com/ also has a chinese version, which i think they uses dynamic textbox and loads chinese text from .xml files.

I wonder how they keep their file size soo small and yet able to display crisp and nice chinese font. Did they embed the fonts? Whats their method of embeding?

Currently my swf is like 250kb. Having several dynamic textbox which loads the text from .xml file. After embeding the dynamic boxes with Traditional Chinese level 1 (5609 glyphs) it shot up to 1mb which is still acceptable. But i still have another dynamic box to embed, After embeding this box the file size shot up to 2.2mb. Then I notice certain specific word (chinese) weren't displaying at all (few missing words when displaying at swf)

Therefore I tried embeding Chinese (ALL) for 1st box which shot up to 2.5mb , after embeding 2nd box, the file size went 3.6mb which is totally not acceptable.

May I know what step can be taken to keep file size low, embedding the fonts smartly, displaying the font crisp and sharp.

I'm using Mingliu and PMingliu chinese font. I really dont care which font as long it keep file size low and look sharp and crisp.

Hope to hear from you guys..

I'm desperate for help =(

Problem With Chinese Font Display, Plz Help
Hi everyone, my friend want me to help him make a flash movie with chinese font in it. I donno Chinese but he gave me all the words and I just copy and paste them to the flash, first I found out flash doesn't seems to support chinese font cus whatever I paste in the text box in flash only appeared to be some weird symbols, then I read through the help section in flash and found out I can enable them by going to adjust some options in windows, so I did. Now that I can see the chinese fonts display correctly in the flash work space, but HUGE problems comes when I publish it! If I set all chinese font to static text they will all get stuffed like an "0" character will turn out as a solid circle with color filled inside o_O. If I use dynamic text they looked fine but the font size will go crazy on different computer, Iike I use size 12 font in my work space and when published it will look like size 24 and that makes all words go off position or even off screen cus the words are too big. I've been suffering for a week now trying to fix it but no luck, can someone please give me a hand and tell me what could went wrong?? I'm using Flash MX and the flash movie is projector file.

Chinese & Japanese Embed Font
Hi,

I've a big problem of showing asian fonts. Somes of them appeared like squares. I've used an embedded font and It doesn't work.

Someone could help me ?

Here is the code.

public static function createAreaText (
param_clip:MovieClip,
param_text:String,
param_font:String,
param_size:Number,
param_color:Number,
param_depth:Number,
param_x:Number,
param_y:Number,
param_width:Number,
param_height:Number,
param_name:String,
param_align:String,
param_letterSpacing:Number,
param_leading:Number):TextField {
if (param_depth == undefined) param_depth = param_clip.getNextHighestDepth();
if (param_x == undefined) param_x = 0;
if (param_y == undefined) param_y = 0;
if (param_width == undefined) param_width = 250;
if (param_color == undefined) param_color = 0x000000;
if (param_font == undefined) param_font = "mainFont";
if (param_name == undefined) param_name = "textObject";
if (param_align == undefined) param_align = "left";

if (_root.lang == "ch") {
param_font = "MS Mincho";
}

var my_textField = param_clip.createTextField(param_name, param_depth, param_x, param_y, param_width, 100);
my_textField.html = true;
my_textField.embedFonts = true;
my_textField.multiline = true;
my_textField.wordWrap = true;
my_textField.selectable = false;

my_textField.htmlText = param_text;
my_textField.htmlText = my_textField.text;

var my_textFormat = new TextFormat(param_font, param_size, param_color);
my_textFormat.align = param_align;
my_textFormat.letterSpacing = param_letterSpacing;
my_textFormat.leading = param_leading;
my_textField.setTextFormat(my_textFormat);

if (param_height != undefined) my_textField._height = param_height;
else my_textField._height = my_textField.textHeight + 5;

return my_textField;
}

Thanks,
Lotfe

How To Embed Chinese Font In Flash
hai to all..

hai am working a music site which has 3 languges(eng, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese). All the contents Loading from XML.. Every thing working Properly.. Here my Problem is am using one Chinese Font(Simsun). Which should be Embed in Flash, if i give embedFonts=true Nothing show in swf . Please help me any one.. using Flash 8 as 2.

I have to embedfonts then only i can use some Property like _rotation ,_alpha etc..

Thanks ..

Jasil K M (india)

Using Japanese And Chinese Fonts Without Font Symbols.
Hi there,

Using japanese and chinese fonts without font symbols.
I use a V2 textArea component

fontSymbols in flash library + xml loading + css applying.
Works great, text is displayed correctly with the correct font and formating, bitmap fonts or anti-aliased.

But as you know if you dealt already with such a situation each font symbols adds a lot to the swf files (more than 1 meg +/ font symbol).

Instead of using font symbols, which embed the complete font, I've decided to test a workaround. The good classic method of using a dummy text field to which you define selected embed options.

So I have the following:
a dynamic text field with "abcJapanese font" with embed option japanese kana and kenji. Named : dummy_txt
a textarea component named test_cpn editable turned off and html turned off through Flash Gui.
code on frame 5:

ActionScript Code:
test_cpn.setStyle("embedFonts",true);
test_cpn.setStyle("fontFamily","イワタ中ゴシック");
test_cpn.setStyle("fontSize","13");
test_cpn.text="<u>test</u> あなたのブランドの雰囲気をあなたの独自性を尊重しながら作り出します。";

What I've tested:

A: dummy_txt with antialias for animation
---> works japanese font displays correctly in textarea component.
this works with japanese fonts which displays correctly in flash font selector or with unrecognized characters like those desplayed with squares.
B: dummy_txt with no antialias
---> nothing appears in textarea component.
C: dummy_txt with antialias for animation + test_cpn.html=true
---> nothing appears in textarea component.
D: dummy_txt with antialias for animation + test_cpn.editable=true
---> nothing appears in textarea component.

C et D seems to produce same results with regular occidental fonts. As soon as a modification is done to the text area nothing appears anymore...

Thank you in advance for your help.

Chinese Font Support In Dynamic Fields In CS3
Hi
I understand that in pre-CS3 Flash you had to embed the entire Chinese character set in EACH dynamic text field you wanted to use it in, blowing out the size of the FLA. I have a site where I want Chinese or English text to appear in dynamic fields based on a user's region - is CS3 better at this?

cheers

Dymanic Text Support Chinese Font?
I have this fla file that is dymanic text which download from this site. Can anyone change it to chinese font instead of english?
Thank alots

How To Change From Traditional Chinese To Simplifed Chinese In Flash Mx?
dear experts...

i have encouter a huge challenge by trying to converting my tranditional chinese flash work into simplified flash work.

Can anyone help me at this point!!!!

i will be deeply appreciated.

thanks! love ya guys with all the help and support

A Bit Of Chinese, Anyone? LOL
Imagine you need to make a file that uses Chinese characters. And you don't speak Chinese, so you ask a friend of yours who is Chinese (or speaks and writes fluently Chinese, like Mira Sorvino) and you ask him or her to write the Chinese letters you need.

So here is a list of all the Chinese characters that Flash Unicode System can output on the screen. With its code.

If you download the file, try changing the "4" in the left combo box by another number, and then change the value of the right combo box and hit "GO". It will automatically give you the list of the next 256 characters in Chinese and their Unicode value, so you don't need to check it out any further...

For safety, I wrote the minimum and the maximum values you are supposed to enter in order to get Chinese, but you ca neve nget Arabic, Greek or Hebrew with this little program.

I will place it as a movie for the actionscript.org site...

And here is the file...

Enjoy, and thanks for the interest...

How Can I Do And See The Chinese Words?
I can type the Chinese words in the sample_guestbook.swf but I cann't recive that.
I opened the the entries_so file(SharedObject) that was saved in FlashCom Server and it's unregulated.

I know Unicode support in Macromedia Flash MX,but the entries_so file was saved in ANSI.
How can I do and see the Chinese words?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

softip

Chinese In Flash MX
I've heard Flash MX has great multi-lingual support, but evrytime I input or copy-paste Chinese into it, it gives me question marks.

EG:

‹âs turns into ?? [Note, those without Chinese fonts may not see the text]

I even use Chinese fonts, but it only gives me the question marks in that Chinese fonts' English typeface. Macromedia's website has a screenshot of MX going with multiple languages working at the same time. I just need Flash to allow both input with Chinese and English.

I've done it before with Flash 5.

Is there anyway without script?
I use Flash MX and Windows XP Pro.

Thanks

View Chinese In MX
I'm having trouble using chinese fonts in MX; I can view them fine in MS Word, but on flash mx, I get question marks. Can anyone help me with this? Do I need something installed on my pc (window 2000) in order to see the chinese characters?? TIA

Chinese Characters
Hi. I'm working on a project where I need to use chinese characters.
I'm currently using the #include-command to load a text-file that is UTF-8 encoded... that's how Macromedia suggests you do it.

However: Making all textfields dynamic, and load text into them externally is kind of frustrating(takes long time), so I wonder if there is a way for you to copy-paste chinese characters into your FLA...
Or do they have another version of flash in China??

I read in the manual that comes with flashMX that maybe you could change your settings in windows (in win2000 and later):
In the Control Panel, select Regional Options and with the General tab selected, under Setting for the current user, choose a language.

I'm not very good at windows, and I need files from the Service Pack 3 cd to install new languages, but if I made this, would it be possible to copy-paste chinese characters into the fla?????

Thanks for reading this rather long message

Chinese Characters From Xml ...
I have been using flash and it's new feature of the unicode (chinese
characters mostly). I am having a problem though. When I am making an xml
file with both chinese and english, flash only reads the value of '?'
instead of my charaters.

The encoding I am using is "iso-8859-1" and "Big5", but neither seam to
work. Any ideas?

--backbaychef

Chinese Fonts
I have a presentation in the form of an swf (not exe) that is used on a CD rom.. all the important text is loaded dynamically via xml.

I have just been asked to make a Chinese version. Although I have no idea about Chinese I was thinking to just get the xml files translated. And have a link to load the chinese xmls instead of the english ones.

So my question is does anyone have any experience with this kind of thing? Anyone know any pitfalls I should avoid or might have trouble with? especially regarding chinese fonts...

Thanks

Chinese Text
Hi,

I was wondering what I need to do to get Flash MX 2004 to support chinese text? Currently when I try to copy/paste chinese text into a textbox it will show up as ?'s.

Do I need to use a localized version of it or what?

Anyone Know How To Get Chinese Characters In MX?
I've done a site for a client, but now they want a copy in Chinese (simsun) characters. I don't know what's needed to allow for foreign characters within MX. ANyone have any ideas on how I could do that? I'd really prefer not to have to do the gif thing.

Thanks in advance.

V.

Chinese Fonts
Hi,
I basically need to be able to use chinese fonts in my application which needs to support several different languages. I currently store the fonts I need in a separate swf file and import this which works fine. However I have had no luck doing this with chinese fonts, does anyone know how to go about this?
I haven't really been able to find much useful information about how it is achieved, especially in as3.

Thanks in advance for any ideas

Chinese Characters?
hey,

so i have been banging my head against a wall trying to get flash to export chinese characters. the fields work to handle the characters, but when i send them to php, it comes out as question marks... any ideas?

kris

Chinese Chahracters
Hi, how can I display Chinese characters in a dynamic field which is controlled by a script I purchased, its a drop down menu scroller (sorry if that sounds confusing).

I have tried embedding Chinese but still no luck I only get unrecognized square boxes just like when i try to copy paste it into AS inside flash. Also same situation with XML.

Cheers!

Chinese Fonts
i'm doing a site in simplified chinese and english, and i'm looking for a suitable chinese font. i'm using miniml fonts in english and am trying - with little success - to find something that will keep the visual style. any suggestions? thanks

supernaut

Using Chinese Characters
I need to add chinese characters (fonts) to my flash project, is there a tutorial on this or can someone outline the steps required to display chinese fonts?

Thanks

Chinese Localization
Hi

I've been charged with internationalizing a Flash RIA, and unluckily for me one of the locales is China. Having spent fruitless hours trying to get just one Chinese character to display, my only chances of an ongoing career in IT are 1) resign and 2) beg for some help on here :-)

Text mainly comes from XML, but also from text files. There is text in button labels, in html fields, in datagrids, in scrolling displays. There are both input fields and static fields. The input fields also sometimes have exclude characters. These are all issues I anticipate, but so far I can't even get one measly character to show up.

Here's what I'm doing:-

XML file starts with:-
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
and is saved as utf-8.
I've replaced a Latin string in the working English version with a 'æ˜¯' character (may not display on this webpage, I copied and pasted from a Chinese website).
I've imported the MingLiU font and embedded it in the swf.
I've set the universal fontFamily (affecting all fields) for the app to MingLiU.

All I see is nothing.

I've searched the internet and this question comes up occasionally, the advise is normally pretty simple, and Ive tried everything.

Grateful for any ideass/pointers

Chinese Characters
I am working on an app with a textfield created with code. The app has a chinese language option so the user needs to be able to enter text in an input text field with chinese characters. When i enable chinese (PRC) in Windows, and i start typing and get the little character entry box. Everything seems normal, but when i have finished the entry no character displays in the box. I can enter roman characters no problem, i can paste chinese characters, i just cant write them directly in the input.

Chinese Word
how to insert others word
example: chinese , japan ,korea
language to Flash MX 2004??

Chinese Words
can flash include chinese character??

How To Use Chinese In Flash?
im a newbie here. just wondering how do we use chinese language in flash? or any other language?

Chinese Word
how to insert others word
example: chinese , japan ,korea
language to Flash MX 2004??

Flash / XML / Chinese
I'm reading XML content into Flash8. Works all great, but it just doesn't work with Chinese Characters. The XML encoding is GB2312, the output in Flash is just random strange stuff. I tried to with embedded fonts, doesn't help but makes the file from 10kb to more 10mb

Any help appreciated

Flash : Chinese
Hi there,

I wrote a file upload application for a client, using the FileReference class in Flash. This application uses a PHP backend with the move_uploaded_file() function to process the file uploading to the server. When the client uploads a file with Chinese characters, it doesn't work as expected. See the image below :

How can I provide support for different encoding or different languages?
Is there some way to include language files or something?
Please post your comments. Appreciated!

Anyone Can Speak Chinese?
???

Chinese/Japanese In Flash
Hey,
I'm trying input some chinese and japanese characters into a flash mx presentation.
I have NJStar which lets me input the characters into most programs. however, in flash, they show up in the text box as im typing but once i choose the arrow tool the characters turn into jibberish.
Anyone know if I'm missing something? Or a better way to go about this?
Thanks.