Flash :: Device Font Alignment

Device Font Vs Pixel Font
I didn't use device fonts before but i am really satisfied with them now, they look almost good as pixel at smaller sizes(some letters r not perfect) and they r free :-). Ofcourse there is only 3 type and only _sans is really good for job :-). So i am wondering is there some special reason i should use some Miniml standard font if i can use device font _sans which is really similar (or the same) as Arial used in HTML. What is this device font anyway? why didn't MM make more of this device fonts? Anyway i am pretty satisfied with them, do you use them?

p.s.
still this font cannot be animated(put at some angles other then 0 )

>>> [Not] Device Font <<<
Hi!
i put devicefont VALUE=true on mu html page...but nothin'...

but if i open directly the swf file the fonts are there...and i can c 'em!!!

why???warum???

www.managementonline.it/start.html
www.managementonline.it/start.swf

Device Font Question
I have static text that is underlined...when I test movie, it's fine...but then, when I change the text to "device fonts" & test movie, the length of the text changes & the underline moves up or down...what's up? It actually only seems to happen with smaller font sizes...like pt size 10

Mask Device Font
i have latest flash 6.0.r79..

im using... mrmask.setMask(mrtext);

mask works....
the graphics under mask appearing but no device text?

??

Device Font Problem
I am using a very uncommon font in designing a movie. It is a pixel font so I want it to be used as device font. But I know this font will change while anyone else views the movie in his/her system and the same font is not available in his/her system.

Is there any way to solve this problem.

Salim

Device Font Problem
I want to write text using pixel fonts. I have used device font to make the text appear sharp. But the problem arises when different users view the page in their system and don't have that pixel font.

The font changes in their system. Is there any way I can use uncomon font and use device font.

I have an example of a flash movie where the designer has used device font and the font and the font is uncommon. Even then I can view the text in that font.

Please see the attachment

Accents & Device Font
Hey,

the following is really getting on my nervs although it is not thaaat important.

I am loading text from an external UTF-8 textfile into a dynamic text field (no font embedded - arial). This part works perfectly. The text, however, contains spanish characters such as áéí and so on. And yes, i can see them and everything seems perfect, but...

if a line contains a word with a accented character the whole line appears jagged.

if a line does not contain an accented character it appears smooth and nice.

Anyone?

thanks

[F8] Use Device Font With CreateTextField?
Hi everyone,

I'm having a little fontproblem with this type effect script which uses the createTextField:

PHP Code:

stop();
//
var nTxt;
var format = new TextFormat();
format.color = 0x000000;
format.align = "left";
format.font = "Verdana";
format.size = 9;
format.leading = 0;
this.createTextField("myTxt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 124, 60, 710, 0);
myTxt.embedFonts = false;
myTxt.selectable = false;
myTxt.wordWrap = true;
myTxt.multiline = true;
myTxt.autoSize = true;
myTxt.setNewTextFormat(format);
//
var format2 = new TextFormat();
format2.color = 0x000000;
format2.size = format.size;
//
myTxt.text = "_";
myTxt.setTextFormat(myTxt.text.length - 1, myTxt.text.length, format2);
var intID = setInterval(doBlink, 500);
//
function doBlink() {
    format2.size = (format2.size != format.size) ? format.size : 2;
    myTxt.setTextFormat(myTxt.text.length - 1, myTxt.text.length, format2);
}
function doTxt() {
    myTxt.text = myTxt.text.slice(0, -1) + nTxt.slice(0, 1) + "_";
    myTxt.setTextFormat(myTxt.text.length - 1, myTxt.text.length, format2);
    nTxt = nTxt.slice(1);
    if (nTxt.length == 0) {
        clearInterval(intID);
        intID = setInterval(doBlink, 500);
    }
}
//
intID = setInterval(doTxt, 20);
//

I want to use the verdana device font in this TextField so it stays crispy and will look the same on a mac.
Somehow the font turns into the Times on a mac. Which parameter do I have to use to format the font into a device font?

First I thought I had to create a font (named: font1) in the library and set it to the verdana and make it a bitmap text
and then point format.font to that font like this: format.font = font1;
But then it even turns into the times on my pc!

So I read somewhere that that doesn't work because you have to assign format.font to the actual name of the font on how it appears in your fontlist,
so I did that like this: format.font = "Verdana";
But then it turns into the times on a mac, probably because on a mac the fontname of the verdana is slightly different?

Any ideas anyone? Any suggestions are welcome!
Thanks!

Device Font Problem
I'm having trouble getting the Device Font to work on my flash. i publish it, export it and save it & still nothing. is there any other way to do this?

http://d7.bz/cool/new.html <-- see what i mean?!

Problem With Device Font.
Hi,

I create a Movie Clip in my Flash document, put some text in that Movie Clip with "Use device fonts" option. But I don't know why my text doesn't appear when I test my movie.

If I put the text on the _root, device font is OK.
Any comment? Thank you.

Problem With Non-device Font On Mac OSX
The problem i'm having is that when i load up one of my .fla file in flash on my mac system it always displays that the non-device font i'm using is not available and ask me to replace it.

does anyone have a solution...
thanks for your time

Noir

AS3: How To Get Device Fonts From A *.ttf Font?
Hiya,

There are a few examples out there on how to embed fonts into your AS3 file, like here. This ensures that the user get teh correct font.

However, (like i ask in the post in the link), i can only get this to work with aliased fonts. I need device-fonts, and after alot of testing, i still cant figure out how i can do that.

Anyone

Device Font And Mask
Is it true that when u use device font that you cannot mask that text, i used dynamic mask and it doesn't work.

Flash 5 : How To Mask Device Font
does anyone know how to mask Device font in F5

Device Font><dynamic Tekst
hellow fellow flashers

i'm working on a portfolio for somebody , now this my problem

ive made a working dynamic tekstfield (loads txt from a txtfile on the server ) you can watch it here
sophie noles make-up artist (enter the site>>menu>>about next the picture of the girl you see tekst , on youre screen its gonna be a standard font)

now i want that all visitors see the need fond i've choosen ...

i've allready tried to put device font mode on but still doesn't work

note:this is one flashmovie embed in the index (frame content) the swf about (where the dynamic txtfield is situated) is loaded into the main swf on level 10.

any ideas??
r3sp3ct

++sector zero++

How To Make Device Font Show Up?
im currently trying to create a page with device font. however, after i published it i realized device font will not show up on others' computers if they dont have the font installed. is there any way to solve this problem???

thx in advance.

Embedded Font Not As Crsip As Device?
Okay, I stumbling through this first site creation. It's done (except for some style tweaks and an continuous image scroller).

I notice the the 'aopsterophe' character is coming up as a square block.... (look at the work client's second question in the FAQ section).

Clarity Healthworks

I figured, no worries, I'll just embed a font set. Thing is, when I do the font doesn't look nearly as crisp and clean as the _sans. I could really use some help.

The FAQ txt, is an external .txt file being loadined into a Dynamic text field. HTML render is off, as is antialiasing.

Thanks and have a great weekend all!

Brendang

Weird Device Font Problem On A Mac
I have a text field. This is set to static text, pt. 9, arial, use device fonts.

On a PC this is shown with no problems, but on a mac, this happens:

http://www.scandesigns.dk/pagne/macpic.gif

It is very weird. It is one textfield, and some of the text is antialiased, some is not. I don't get it.

My textfield is in a movieclip. Both the textfield and the movieclip is placed on rounded numbers like x: 0.0, y: 0,0 on my scene.

Has anyone experienced this before?

Use Device Font // Movie Clips
I have been checking the "use Device Fonts” in the text properties box and noticing how tight and clean your text looks when rendered.

I then put my text inside of a movie clip so I can scroll it, and the text looks as if I am not using "use Device Fonts", even thou I am.

Anyone else see this happening?

Device Font Masking Problem
Hi trhere!
Here's a ****ty issue that's giving quite a headache since 3 days ago.
I just changed the computer I work on at the Office to a PIV, 128MB RAM, nVidia and there's a *****y problem. When I Compile my applications, all the device font texts under masks do not show. As far as I know, since 6,0,79,0 this thing is supported. It works on (about) any other system than mine.
I know the problem is at compile time because other, already compiled, movies work properly.

Can anyone tell me how to fix this? Or can anyone help me tell Macromedia about this?

Thanks.

PS: When I say compile-time I mean export-time.

Alpha Tween Device Font
any idea how to alpha tween a device font? or a movieclip with a device font on it... thanks!

Not Including Font Outlines And Using Device Fonts
Hello,

I have a flash file that has a lot of text links, which is making the file size a bit bigger than I'd hoped.

I'm considering not including the font outlines and instead using Device Fonts, which would decrease the file size. The Device Font will give me some control, I'll at least be certain that all users will see sans text, but I'm concerned that the text size may vary slightly depending on the browser and platform the viewer has.

Does anyone know what will happen to the text if the outlines are not included? Will the text appear slightly different on a PC in IE versus on a Mac in Netscape for example.

Any input would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Janet

Device Font><dynamic Tekst<>character
hellow fellow flashers

i'm working on a portfolio for somebody , now this my problem

ive made a working dynamic tekstfield (loads txt from a txtfile on the server ) you can watch it here sophie nolens make-up artist
(enter the site>>menu>>about next the picture of the girl you see tekst , on youre screen its gonna be a standard font)

now i want that all visitors see the need fond i've choosen ...

i've allready tried to put device font mode on but still doesn't work

note:this is one flashmovie embed in the index (frame content) the swf about (where the dynamic txtfield is situated) is loaded into the main swf on level 10.

any ideas??
r3sp3ct

++sector zero++

Device Font><dynamic Tekst<>character
Location:
Posts: 37
device font><dynamic tekst<>character
hellow fellow flashers

i'm working on a portfolio for somebody , now this my problem

ive made a working dynamic tekstfield (loads txt from a txtfile on the server ) you can watch it here sophie nolens make-up art
(enter the site>>menu>>about next the picture of the girl you see tekst , on youre screen its gonna be a standard font)

now i want that all visitors see the need fond i've choosen ...

i've allready tried to put device font mode on but still doesn't work

i've also tried to chanche the character of the dynamic tekst in the properties pannel to all characters

still no luck for me

note:this is one flashmovie embed in the index (frame content) the swf about (where the dynamic txtfield is situated) is loaded into the main swf on level 10.

any ideas??
r3sp3ct

Non Latin Characters/problem With Device Font
Publishing my .swf from Flash MX (Windows)
and when I looking at it on Mac (OSX) the text looks weird. Using device font (Verdana) with nonlatin characters as åäö.
Ok in Windows but not on a Mac.

When I removing the nonlatin characters the text looks ok.

Squooshed Device Font With Special Characters
I'm loading utf-8 encoded xml formatted with css into an html enabled dynamic text box. Everything seems fine except when I use a special character like a thorn (Icelandic), then all the text on that line renders oddly. The spacing between the words becomes inconsistent and some of the words run together. If you select the text with your mouse it will snap back to what it should look like.

So the problem is not with getting the characters to show up, but that when they show up they're freaking out the line of text that they're on. For an example of what I'm talking about see the "shows" section of http://www.scottmclemore.com/ and select the names of the musicians listed.

Thanks

Masking A Dynamic Textfield With A Device Font
Hi everybody,

I want to be sure that I have the right info:

Is there any way to mask a dynamic textfield that uses a device font?

Thanks

_alpha 0 Doesn't Work For Arial As Device Font
In a movieclip with an instance called 'textbox', I have created a text box that uses the Arial font. I want it to display as alias text, so I've checked 'Use Device Fonts' to achieve that style.

However, in the _root of my movieclip, when I set 'textbox._alpha = 0;' the text still appears as solid.

What gives? Is there a solution around this? (Also, ._visible works to make the text disappear, but I need to do an ._alpha animation).

Any pointers would be great.

Font Alignment Changes
I will line up a block of text with graphics/bullets, it looks perfect in my FLA but when I view it in my SWF, the text is out of alignment. When I go back to the FLA and it is out of alignment there too.

The only font I use is Sans and this usually happens when I have 2+ paragraphs of text that are separated by double returns.

I am working in Flash MX 2004, on a Mac running 10.4.8. My colleague has recently been having the same problems when he opens my files on his Windows PC.

For a while I thought it was a conflict w/ Extensis Suitcase, my font mgmt program, because it seemed to NOT happen when Suitcase was closed. But recently I noticed it happening sometimes even when Suitcase IS closed.

I think it may actually be a line spacing thing, not a font issue, but not sure exactly what the problem is, or how to fix it.

Does anyone have a fix to this????

Font Alignment Weird In FlashMX 2004
Hey guys

I am using flashmx 2004 on a G5.

I opened up the exact same fla on FlashMX 2004 on my titanium and the font alignment is all off. Not sure why! The font is the same but the alignment is weird. I don't know what's going on!

Can anyone help? It's really stressing me out! Even if I fix the alignment on my titanium, I am only going to have to fix it up again on the G5...

It's not even cross platform! It's weird...

Help is much appreciated!

Cheers in advance....

Is "Use Device Fonts" With The "Tahoma" Font Selected A BAD Practice?
I’ve been working with flash lately for the first time. I purchased a flash-site template to get me started.

Quick question: on the template that I purchased, most of the static text blocks use the Tahoma font with “Use Device Fonts” selected. This looks great in my browser, especially since a lot of the text is pretty small – from 9-11 px. I checked and it seems that Tahoma is a factory install on both windows and mac. My concern with this “Use Device Fonts” is cross-platform compatibility. Should I use this selection when building a flash site, or should I always use either "anti-alias for readibality" or "anti-alias for animation"?

I’ve also seen where some people only recommend “use device fonts” with “_sans”, “_serif”, and “_typewriter” fonts. But this template was designed with it using “Tahoma”, and tahoma seems to be pretty widely supported.

None of the anti-aliasing options look as good as “use device fonts”. But I want to design this the “right” way, whatever that is. What would everyone suggest?

Thanks for the feedback!
Jeff

USB Device
Hi -

How can you get data from a USB device ?

Things like vendor and product ID.

Also the bit values the device sends or
what ever I can do to get the data the device sends.

Thanks

*note it can be AS2 or AS3

Device Fonts
hello all,

i have a question regarding device fonts. my current situation is:

1) main movie (main stage)
2) on this main stage, a movieclip which is a sliding navbar.
3) in this movie clip, i have another movieclip. If i use hooge and choose device fonts, it doesn't appear in the movie but if i uncheck device fonts, it apprears but is blurred.

Does anyone know why it disappears?

Thanks in advance,
kusaDJ

USING DEVICE FONTS....WHY CANT I AS IT?
When I apply text using the Use Device Fonts property...

...Why is it when I try to adjust, animate or add AS to the MC it is contained in...It just dissapears.....

is there any way to keep fonts clear.... Im just trying to fade in some text to look really clear and readable...

thanks..
mannyme80

USE DEVICE FONTS
guys i was wondering, whats the USE DEVICE FONT checkbox in the text panel for?

Device Fonts
you might want to try using device fonts, if you are not already using them

Use Device Fonts
Ok people here is my problem
if I make some text and if I make flash to use device fonts,
they are nice and without AA, but if I put mask over it it`ll, the user can`t see it, is there a way to do it on a similar way, cause I realy need to make that mask over it.

Device Fonts
How to export a Dinamic text with the original font used on fla???...or the fonts exportex like dinamic text will be renderizing like html?.....

Icaro

Device Fonts
All the text that I have having on a new site that i am designing, i have set to use device fonts!

I use "_san" font while in designing, but when I preview the movie, the device font is in a slightly different position than I designed it to be.

Why cant I use the device font when designing?

HELP!!

USe Device Fonts
im sure you guys have noticed that using the "USE DEVICE FONTS" options for your static texts can be a problem as their display differ from the Authoring Enviroment display, and the actual runtine display.. One common problem is, using device fonts makes your static texts longer than they are in authoring enviroment.

Is there a way to fix this?

What Happens When I Use Device Fonts?
Can someone tell me what happens when I use device fonts?
What exactly is this?

From a previous reply to a posting, I found out that if you use device fonts, then this won't slow down any animations you have.

What I'm afraid of is the fact that my work will look different on different systems.

(I'm using Arial, if that's relevant.)

Can someone please put my mind at rest.

Thanks.

Jam

Device Fonts
I have tried to put text inside my movie that uses device fonts. I set the font to _sans and clicked the "use device fonts box" but when I test or even publish the movie, the text disappears. I can see it on the stage when I am editing the .fla file, but as soon as i publish/test the movie, it is as if there was not text there!

What's going on?

Use Device Fonts
dudes,

my prob is i cant display the text i wrote in flash, if the text is inside a movie. and this movie is in layer mask.

the text is "use device fonts" mode.

how ?

the output is none.

ahmadzombie

Device Fonts
hi!

is it possible to use device fonts with layer mask?
i`ve created text scroll with mask. when i change font to use device font nothing is displayed.

Is it possible to do it some other way?

Rok

Using Device Fonts
Why can't you assign a device font for a MAC? Just curious if you can ... how?

Using Device Fonts
Hi

I am trying to use the _sans font so that it will access the device font on the system, can anyone give me any tips on doing this?

I have laid my text out just how I want it, but when I export it moves and gets bigger.

I have Use Device Fonts selected (I don't want the font embedded and used but for the system to use the default sans font).

Any ideas on why it moves? Surely if I am using the _sans font in my drop down i am using my sans system font so therefore it should look the same when exported? no?

I have tried it with selectable on and off, auto kern on and off, the only way i can get what i'm looking at is to uncheck the use device fonts, defeating what I want to accomplish.

I see so many sites that are created this way, I just can't work out how it is done, any help appreciated.

Thanks

Frankie.