Embedfonts - Embedding More Than One Font (2) On 1 Textfield

Using Multiple Font Styles In CSS To Format A TextField Using EmbedFonts - Possible?
I want to apply CSS to a dynamic TextField on my stage so that the xml read into it will be formatted according to the multiple FONT styles specified in my .css. I know how to do this. This is simple enough.

I also want to use EMBEDDED FONTS because I cannot assume the fonts in my .css will be installed on the target machine. I know how to do this also, so this too is simple.

The problem I am having is how to get the TextField to display multiple fonts based soely on my .css/.xml declarations.

Any clues??????????????

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Setting And Embedding A Font To A TextField
Hi,
I want to create a text field and write in it using a certain font from my font library.
This is the code I use to create the textField:

PHP Code:



import flash.display.*;import flash.text.TextField;    var myText1:TextField = new TextField();    myText1.text = "something";    this.addChild(myText1);    myText1.x = 110;    myText1.y = 40; 




I embedded the font in the library and gave it the linkage name: "font"

What code to I need to add in order to write this in this certain font?

Thanks

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TextField/TexFormat Font Not Embedding
for some reason i cannot embed a font in the textfield and textformat objects

the TextFormat.getFontList displays the font.., it embeded or available... but when using the font in TextFormat , if i set embedfont in the TextField instance to true i do not see any text, if i do not embed i see text with the system font.

heres my code.. am i missing something?

// A contains the font i try to use
A = TextField.getFontList();
myText = new TextFormat();
myText.color = 0x280000;
myText.font = "Verdana";
myText.size = 9;
//
this.createTextField( "loginField", 1000, 248.0, 101.0, 115, 16.0);
loginField.setTextFormat(myText);
loginField.background = true;
loginField.backgroundColor = 0xCAD4C7;
loginField.border = true;
loginField.borderColor = 0xACB4A9;

// make this false and i see the system font, when true i cannot write
// any text to the text field, not does anything
// get written to the associated variable
loginField.embedFonts = true;
loginField.type = "input";
loginField.selectable = true;
loginField.variable = login;

any help would be appreciated... is this a bug or am i wrong somewhere?

thanks
nik

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Flash Font Embedding For Displaying All Styles On A TextField - Bold, Italic …
this is something you should probably know, so I am posting this to help Flash beginners

blogpost


Flash can’t display by default all font style in a TextField. To be able to do that you need to embedd font with every style you plan to use in library separate. In a library menu (you get it when you click icon in Library title top right corner) and click on New Font option. Then you select font, and style you want to embedd and do it for every style you plan to use I am repeating myself but that’s good for beginners.
SWF Example
FLA file

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Difference Between EmbedFonts=true And Manual Glyph Embedding?
Exactly what the title says? What is the difference? My logic tells me that embedFonts=true would just embed the glyphs it needs automatically, but clearly this is not the case and you often need to embed glyphs manually on top of that. What's the logic?

Heh, sorry to bother you with all these font-related questions. I just have great difficulty getting my head around what clearly is Flash's disaster-area, text handling.

Thank you

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Help: TextField.embedFonts
As soon as I change the text field properties to embedFonts by action script like:

myTextField.embedFonts=true;

All of my text disappears, any suggestions?

Thanks,
Kamran.

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Textfield.embedFonts Not Working
Hi,

I'm unable to see my dynamic textfields when i use myTextField.embedFonts=true;
Why does this happens?
I need to have my fonts embbebed because i want to mask my textfileds.

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StyleSheet And TextField.embedFonts
Hi,

I'm on a problem since two days and no solution in sight.
I try to use an external StyleSheet with an embedFont. But as soon as I switch embedFonts to true, nothing happens anymore.

The font is embedded in an dynamic TextField on the library (so I can embed parts of the font and doen't have to import the whole font), it's definitively there, I can find it width enumerateFonts and use it with TextFormat. But if you click here, you see the un-embedded TextFields most likely in an alternative Font (wich both are shown correctly on my system), the correct embedded-font TextField with TextFormat but nothing on StyleSheet with embedded font.

Does anyone sees the error?

Here's the code and the files are attached.
thanks.


PHP Code:



import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.text.StyleSheet;
import flash.text.TextFormat;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;

var cssLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();

var myStyleSheet:StyleSheet;
var myTextFormat:TextFormat;

var text1:TextField;
var text2:TextField;
var text3:TextField;
var text4:TextField;

function init() {
    traceFonts();
    initTextFormat();
    cssLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler);
    cssLoader.load(new URLRequest("css/textfeld.css"));
}

function initTextFormat():void {
    myTextFormat = new TextFormat();
    myTextFormat.font = "Christopherhand";
    myTextFormat.size = 40;
    myTextFormat.color = 0xFFFFFF;
}

function initStyleSheet(cssString:String):void {
    myStyleSheet = new StyleSheet();
    myStyleSheet.parseCSS(cssString);
    traceStyles(myStyleSheet);
}

function initTextFields():void {
    text1 = setTextfield(myStyleSheet, "StyleSheet", false, 0,0);
    text2 = setTextfield(myStyleSheet, "StyleSheet", true, 0,188);
    text3 = setTextfield(myTextFormat, "TextFormat", false, 250,0);
    text4 = setTextfield(myTextFormat, "TextFormat", true, 250,188);

    for (var i:int = 1; i<=4; i++) {
        addChild(this["text"+i]);
    }
}


function completeHandler(event:Event):void {
    var cssString:String = event.currentTarget.data;
    initStyleSheet(cssString);

    initTextFields();
    for (var i:int = 1; i<=4; i++) {
        TextField(this["text"+i]).htmlText = "<span class='header'>| Dorem ipsum |</span>";
    }
    trace("******** TextField-Content:String *********");
    for (var i:int = 1; i<=4; i++) {
        trace(TextField(this["text"+i]).htmlText);
    }
    trace("******************************************");
    trace("");
}


function setTextfield(defaultFormat:*, type:String = "TextFormat", embed:Boolean = true, x:int = 0, y:int = 0 ):TextField {
    var t:TextField = new TextField();
    t.x = x;
    t.y = y;
    t.width = 250;
    if (embed) {
        t.embedFonts = true;
    } else {
        t.embedFonts = false;
    }
    if (type == "TextFormat") {
        t.defaultTextFormat = TextFormat(defaultFormat);
        //trace(t.getStyle);
    } else {
        t.styleSheet = StyleSheet(defaultFormat);
        //trace(t.styleSheet.getStyle("text1"));
    }
    t.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.NORMAL;
    t.wordWrap = true;
    t.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
    t.multiline = true;
    return t;
}



function traceStyles(style:StyleSheet):void {
    trace("****** CSS Data Content ********");
    var styleNames_array:Array = style.styleNames;
    for (var i = 0; i<styleNames_array.length; i++) {
        var styleName_str:String = styleNames_array[i];
        var styleObject:Object = style.getStyle(styleName_str);
        trace(styleName_str);
        for (var prop in styleObject) {
            trace(" "+prop+": "+styleObject[prop]);
        }
        trace("");
    }
    trace("************************************");
    trace("");
}

function traceFonts():void {
    var embeddedFontsArray:Array = Font.enumerateFonts(false);
    trace("****** Show embedded Fonts ********");
    for (var i:uint = 0; i < embeddedFontsArray.length; i++) {
        trace((i+1)+".) fontName: " + embeddedFontsArray[i].fontName);
    }
    trace("***************************************************");
    trace("");
}



init(); 

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EmbedFonts And Blank Textfield
Hi,
I copied the code from this
Page, but none of the examples seem to work. I use Flash 8 as 2. In the example titled "Working With Advanced Text Rendering", only when I comment the line "my_text1.embedFonts = true", the player displays the text correctly.
How come?

thanks!
m.

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EmbedFonts For TextField Globally
must be a way for this

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EmbedFonts Not Working If Using Same Font Twice
I am having problem importing the same type font more than once.

In Library I imported Arial font twice, but with different size setting:

Name: arial-11
Font: Arial
Size: 11 (size field must be set)

Name: arial-20
Font: Arial
Size: 20 (size field must be set)

For each above font, right click and select Linkage...
Inside Linkage set following properties:

Identifier: arial-11
Export for ActionScript (checked)
Export in first frame (checked)

Identifier: arial-20
Export for ActionScript (checked)
Export in first frame (checked)


In AS:

var paragraphSmallLeft_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
paragraphSmallLeft_fmt.color = 0x000000;
paragraphSmallLeft_fmt.font = "arial-11";
//
var paragraphLargeLeft_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
paragraphLargeLeft_fmt.color = 0x000000;
paragraphLargeLeft_fmt.font = "arial-20";

this.createTextField("test1_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 0, 0, 300, 30);
with (test1_txt) {
embedFonts = true;
border = false;
html = true;
wordWrap = true;
selectable = false;
multiline = false;
condenseWhite = true;
htmlText = "Test 1";
_x = 50;
_y = 30;
antiAliasType = "advanced";
thickness = 100;
setTextFormat(paragraphSmallLeft_fmt);
}
//
this.createTextField("test2_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 0, 0, 300, 30);
with (test2_txt) {
embedFonts = true;
border = false;
html = true;
wordWrap = true;
selectable = false;
multiline = false;
condenseWhite = true;
htmlText = "Test 2";
_x = 50;
_y = 60;
antiAliasType = "advanced";
thickness = 100;
setTextFormat(paragraphLargeLeft_fmt);
}

Only one (always only first) text field will appear fine. HELP

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Problems With Textfield, EmbedFonts And HtmlText
Hello,

I've got some problems with a dynamic textfield using an embedded font and displaying it as htmlText. Been googling around, but I don't seem find an answer.

First I create my textformat:


Code:
var fmtText:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
fmtText.font = "Font";
fmtText.leading = 4;
fmtText.size = 11;
fmtText.color = 0x000000;
Then I createTextField

Code:
_root.container.createTextField("txt", _root.container.getNextHighestDepth(), 50, 142, 420, 1);
_root.container.txt.multiline = true;
_root.container.txt.wordWrap = true;
_root.container.txt.autoSize = true;
_root.container.txt.embedFonts = true;
_root.container.txt.selectable = false;
_root.container.txt.html = true;
_root.container.txt.setNewTextFormat(_root.fmtText);
and then, using htmlText, I insert the text into the textField. But the text doesn't show. If I remove _root.container.txt.html = true; it all works fine, but I can se all the <br> and I don't want that! Does anybody know what's wrong?

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EmbedFonts And Animate TextField._alpha Problem
Hello, I'm having trouble changing the alpha value of a dynamic text field in my movie.

I have created a font symbol and as a static textField it works fine.

I would like to change the textField._alpha property over time, however when I use the embedFonts property the textField does not appear.

According to my Definitive Guide, to use the textField._alpha property the embedFonts property has to be defined first.

Can anyone help??

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Textfield, EmbedFonts, HtmlText And Line Breaks
I'm building a list of links out of a XML file and I need two line breaks after each <a> tag. The problem is, as soon as I put embedFonts in my code, Flash only reads a single <br> tag in my htmlText. Even if I put ten of them one behind the other, there's only one actually being shown. And its works flawlessly without embedFonts enabled!

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Preparing A TextField With EmbedFonts = True, When Is It Ready?
NOTICE: you may have seen this post before, I am in deep on this project and every day I miss is a day slipped on my deadline. I will make sure to update all posts with the solution when I find it.

I just uploaded an example of my situation right now. The top row of TextFields has embedFonts set to false and the bottom row has embedFonts set to true. When set to true the TextField border becomes very small and the displayed text is shifted up and left aligned to the center of the original TextField. The TextField textWidth properties are also skewed as you can see the alignment of the TextFields is off in the lower example.

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/4...irdnesslt2.jpg

Using a bandaid delay function that waits for .5 seconds between setting the embedFont to true and the defaultTextFormat before arranging them on stage seems to improve the issue slightly.

In timeline development I could insert an extra frame, to wait a frame for some TextField properties to be set but I don't know how I can achieve the same effect in straight actionscript.

I tried using an enter frame even to check for the TextField's width or textWidth properties but they never changed.

The last attempt I made was to add the items to the stage with visible false, then arrange them and set visible true but alas that did not work either.

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Wordwrap Problems In A Textfield Caused By EmbedFonts
Hello all,
I am loading text via an XML file and placing it into a dynamically created textfield (using createTextField).

I am setting the multiline and wordwrap properties appropriately...

...
createTextField("txtContent", 3000, 20, 40, 500, 450);
txtContent.embedFonts = true;
txtContent.html = true;
txtContent.multiline = true;
txtContent.wordWrap = true;
...


This all works fine, until the last few lines of the textfield. Near the end of the textfield, the wordwrap seems to quit working and the text disappears out of the bounds of the textfield. The wordwrapping, however, is in effect everywhere else in the same textfield.

Nothing I am doing ever alters the value of the wordwrap property, so this is extremely confusing.

After a LOT of testing, I determined that the problem has something to do with the embedFonts property. At first, I thought it was the font I was using, but I tested other fonts, and had the same problem. When I commented out the embedFonts line, and used a system font like "_sans," then it all worked fine.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. I have been puzzling over this for a week and have run out of ideas (short of manually entering linebreaks throughout the text; but, that is more of a band-aid than a true fix).

Thanks!

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Weird HTML Display With TextField.embedFonts = True
Ok, so at first this sounds very simple and perhaps even easy, but I have hit a wall which I have been unable to break through in the past 2 days. Calling all Flash [as] pros please.

Essentially, what I am trying to do is to load HTML content from an XML file and put it in a TextField object I create dynamically. After all this is done, clicking on a button fades the TextField object out and another TextField with new content appears.

I've got the whole process working fine, including the fading. And to get the fading to work, I've actually had to set my dynamic TextField objects' embedFonts property to TRUE.

Now here's the hiccup:

When embedFonts is FALSE, Flash displays the TextField's HTML content properly. The text flows properly and looks as expected. The only downside is that the fade effect doesn't work.

When embedFonts is TRUE, the fade effects works perfectly, but Flash displays the TextField's HTML content with a bunch of extra spaces between some of the letters. The line height seems to be different also.

The odd thing is that when I debug the code to look at the styles, in both instances of embedFonts set to TRUE or FALSE, the styles are exactly the same. But Flash is rendering the HTML with different kerning and line height in each of the scenarios.

Has anyone ran into this situation and if yes, have you managed to find a solution for it?

Any help is much appreciated.

P.S. Using Flash 8, AS 2

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Textfield.embedFonts Doesn't Work With Text Fields Created From CreateTextField()?
hi all,

I've created a text field with createTextField()

here is my Code:


Code:
mcText.createTextField("tf", 1, 0, 0, 0, 0);
mcText.tf.multiline = true;
mcText.tf.autoSize = "left";
mcText.tf.selectable = false;
mcText.tf.border = false;
mcText.tf.textColor = 0xffffff; //(1)
mcText.tf.type = "dynamic";
and format the text field

Code:
myTextFormat = new TextFormat();
myTextFormat.font = "Verdana";
myTextFormat.size = "10pt";
myTextFormat.color = 0xffffff;
mcText.tf.setTextFormat(myTextFormat);
I also noted that this format code doesn't work for the text field I created (for instance, when I deleted the line
(1) it didn't appear in white at all?

I don't know why but this line of code made the text white but didn't make it 10pt ???

Code:
mcText.tf.setNewTextFormat(myTextFormat);
later I load into that text from a text file

Code:
loadVarsText = new loadVars();
loadVarsText.load("test.txt");
loadVarsText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
mcText.tf.Text = this.var1;
}
};
without the formatcode the text appeared, how to say..., very ugly?

I also tried with

Code:
mcText.tf.html = true;
...
mcText.tf.htmlText = this.varText;
but it didn't seem to solve the problem

Experts, please help. It's urgent !

Thanks in advance

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[Edited by huynt on 08-26-2002 at 11:58 PM]

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Embedding Font And Dynamic Html Text -> Font Is Gone
Hi there ,

I've been searching all over this forum and searched on Google for an answer to this question but can't find an answer that works to me.

I have some dynamic textfields and I retrieve the data from a databases. Each textfield has a handwritten font which I embed using Character Options in the Text Properties. That works fine.

The problem is, when I check the 'Render as HTML' checkbox and send simple HTML-tags to it, the html-tags still work but the handwritten font is gone! I really tried lot of things but it really doesn't work to me.

I really hope someone can help me. I really appreciate it!

Kind regards,

forcer

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Anyone Know Flash CS3 Embed Font's Glyphs Range With Font Class(no TextField )
I have add some font by Font class in the library
(TextFeild.embedFonts=true)

but the font's glyphs looks not enough.

when i use text String " ü ä ö ß π à â ç è é ê ë î ï ô ù û œ "
only the "Ï€" and "Å“" is can be visible.
Font.hasGlyphs also return false;

if i only create a TextField, and Click the Embed button selection glyphs range.
the text will be fine.

but i won't use TextField by drag to the stage

i heard in flex:
@font-face {
src:local("Arial");
fontFamily: myFont;
flashType: true;
unicodeRange:
U+0041-U+005A, /* [A..Z] */
U+0061-U+007A, /* a-z */
U+0030-U+0039, /* [0..9] */
U+002E-U+002E; /* [.] */
}
so what can i do in Flash CS 3?

thanks a lot
i really tried working on this.maybe i just need go back use the .....TextField.

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"TextField.embedFonts" Drives Me Mad
Hi,

I’m having troubling using the following functions:

TextField.html = true;
TextField.embedFonts = true;

The “TextField.html” function is not the problem, but for sure the “TextField.embedFonts” one is driving me crazy.

If the “TextField.embedFonts” is set to “True” or “False” false does not interpret the HTML tag in the same way.

1. TextField.embedFonts = false;

I got the wanted output:

October
08-TuePub, somewhere, xx
08-TuePub, somewhere, xx
08-TuePub, somewhere, xx
08-TuePub, somewhere, xx
08-TuePub, somewhere, xx

November
08-TuePub, somewhere, xx
08-TuePub, somewhere, xx
08-TuePub, somewhere, xx
08-TuePub, somewhere, xx

2. TextField.embedFonts = true;

The “skip line” is not there

October
08-TuePub, somewhere, xx
08-TuePub, somewhere, xx
08-TuePub, somewhere, xx
08-TuePub, somewhere, xx
08-TuePub, somewhere, xx
November
08-TuePub, somewhere, xx
08-TuePub, somewhere, xx
08-TuePub, somewhere, xx
08-TuePub, somewhere, xx

Could someone help me ?

Attached are the resources:
The .fla and the xml file used as external data file.

thanks

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Embedding A Font
How would I go about embedding a font in a dynamic text box that loads itself from a text file with a scrollbar attached to it?

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Font Embedding
Hi all, I have a dynamic textfield that load its text from an external txt file. How can I make it display a special font? I tried the embedded option but all I get is an empty textfield?! Do I have to specify the font face in my external txt file? I'm a little lost!

Thanks in advance

Isengard

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Font Embedding
I cannot get my font to load correctly in other people's machines. I used WEFT to make the .eot file, and that has been uploaded, and my script URL points to it. The page is here...It's probably just a minor coding issue or something.

http://www.specialedword.com/history2.htm

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Embedding A Font
i have a slight problem, i am using eurostar font for all my movies and i have a couple of questions... when i embed a font into my library, and tested the movie , then ran it in another computer without the font, it didnt embed it. do i have to linkage export for actionscript?



also how can i make sure that the font size doesnt change when i make my field dynamic?


thanks in advance

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Embedding A Font? Bug?
In this movie:
http://www.midnight007.com/pizza/layer_root_3.swf

When you click on any of the pizza slices (which pulls up another movie layer), the dynamic titles switched by a switch statement do not show up. They show up on any computer that the font is ON. However, I can't get the titles to work on any other computer. I've tried embedding the characters of the font, I've tried linking the font from the original root movie, and I've also tried actually writing the titles in the movie to the right of the frame (as you will see - and those are in the correct font) - but still the dynamic title is not showing up on computers that don't have the font.

Any other ideas as to how to get the titles to show up?

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Embedding A Font
Hi, I need help with a problem with embedding a font and using it to format a dynamic scrollable textbox in actionscript, maybe I've missed something fundamental.

Anyway, I first added a font to the library and did the linkage and gave it an identifier of Font_MSS with the export to action script checked.

then in the following code I added the line to the “// format the font for the scroller text” section with :-

scrollerTxtFormat.embedFonts = true;

Although the text shows up it has no effect on the font itself, it remains as the default font.

any ideas?

many thanks

Cheers Rob.



Code:
// Loads the XML file
#include "external as/xmlnitro.as"
xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;
xmlData.load("xml/StringAboutText_XML.xml");


// Variables to hold the node and attribute values from the XML file.
function loadXML(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
_root.scrollerTxt = this.firstChild.childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;


// Create empty textfield called scroller
_root.createTextField("scroller", 14, 40, 270, 500, 162);
//scroller.embeded = true;
scroller.type = "dynamic";
scroller.multiline = true;
scroller.html = true;
scroller.wordWrap = true;
scroller.selectable = false;
scroller.htmltext = _root.scrollerTxt;


// format the font for the scroller text
scrollerTxtFormat = new TextFormat();
scrollerTxtFormat.embedFonts = true;
scroller.setTextFormat(scrollerTxtFormat);

// create a scrollbar for the scroller text
_root.initialization = {_targetInstanceName:"scroller", horizontal:false};
_root.attachMovie("FScrollBarSymbol", "scrollBar", 15, initialization);
scrollBar._x = scroller._x+scroller._width+15;
scrollBar._y = scroller._y;
scrollBar.setSize(scroller._height);

// Format the scrollbar
scrollBar._width = 15;
scrollBar.setStyleProperty("arrow", 0x000000);
scrollBar.setStyleProperty("scrollTrack", 0xFFFFFF);
scrollBar.setStyleProperty("face", 0xFFFFFF);
scrollBar.setStyleProperty("highlight", 0xFFFFFF);
scrollBar.setStyleProperty("highlight3D", 0xFFFFFF);
scrollBar.setStyleProperty("shadow", 0xFFFFFF);
scrollBar.setStyleProperty("darkshadow", 0x000000);


} else {
trace("xml file not found!");
}
}

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Second Day Without Font Embedding...
I'm at a loss for how to fix my font embedding issue. I've redone it many times using adobe source, AS3 Cookbook source, online tutorials, searched forum results, and nothing works. I have a font, Square721ExBT. It is inside my windows/fonts directory. I've tried some of the following, comment lines show different methods:


ActionScript Code:
// _header is a new TextField(); Assume after first example the _header lines are the same

[Embed(source='C:WindowsFontssqr721e.TTF', fontName = 'Square721', mimeType='application/x-font-truetype')];
_headerFMT = new TextFormat();
_headerFMT.color = 0xFFFFFF;
_headerFMT.font = new Square721;

_header.embedFonts = true;
_header.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
_header.text = "This is a header font.";
_header.setTextFormat(_headerFMT);

//////////////////////////////////////////////
// Attached in Library Given name of Square721
_headerFMT = new TextFormat();
_headerFMT.color = 0xFFFFFF;
_headerFMT.font = new Square721(); //Compile error

//////////////////////////////////////////////
// Read that the name matters tried sqr721e
_headerFMT = new TextFormat();
_headerFMT.color = 0xFFFFFF;
_headerFMT.font = new sqr721e(); //Compile error

The list goes on as I've been trying for quite some time now. Many give me errors, few just don't do anything. The closest I've ever been was one showed the text in white but using Times not my font. Please any suggestions! Also I can never set the defaultTextFormat of the textfield. It returns "1195: Attempted access of inaccessible method defaultTextFormat through a reference with static type flash.text:TextField."

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Embedding Font Help
Hi, All!

I am reading flash help file about embedding font, and more I read more I confuse. If someone could answer my questions I would be very thankful, because I am stuck.

1)If I am using Static text box, I do not have any opportunity to embed a font for it? What should I do, if the font is not installed on a user's system? The only way out is to make it bitmap text?

2)If I need to use some special font in dynamic text field, why do after embedding font into the library I also need to embed characters? If I embed only Characters, my font is shown also on the user's system, that doesn’t have that font installed, than why I should I embed font and when should I embed?

Please, someone, answer…

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Font Embedding
I've been scouring the internet for the last few days trying to fix this issue that I'm having. I'm working on a project in CS3, using Actionscript 3.0 and cannot for the life of me get my fonts embedded. I am using the "FFF" fonts, namely FFF Executive Extended, and FFF Business.


ActionScript Code:
var myTextFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
myTextFormat.font = "FFF Executive Extended";
myTextFormat.size = 8;

var myTextField:TextField = new TextField();
myTextField.text = "blah blah blah";
addChild(myTextField);
myTextField.setTextFormat(myTextFormat);

the text fields are being created from external .as files, which are working fine. If I have the fonts enabled on my computer everything is displayed perfectly, but if I disable the fonts, a default font is used.

I've tried to embed the fonts using the method which requires creating a new library instance of a font, checking the linkage properties so that it exports for actionscript and exports in the first frame.

I've also created a dynamic text field on the stage, chosen to embed characters, and selected relevant characters - I even tried it once with all characters chosen. No dice.

Like the subject line says, I'm at my wit's end with this, because I simply cannot figure out why this isn't working! Please please please help me!

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Font Embedding
So, I tried this in different ways, but nothing seems to have worked so far.

I have a movieclip containing a vector and in it I want to place a label. I linked this movieclip to a class. The movie is supposed to be scalable, so I can't just add a textfield with embedded fonts to the movieclip in the library, since it would stretch.

That's why I want to add the textfield dynamically through the class constructor. I created a font symbol in the library, but I can't quite figure out how to import and use the font in an external class.

edit: I'm not using Flex, just AS3. So [Embed] won't work

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Font Embedding
Hi,

I want to use Futura LT BT and Futura MD BT font in dynamic labels, I have already embedded characters as described in Flash Live docs, but it is not working consistently. On Some screen it works and on some screens my label just disappears.

I also tried font embedding my creating font symbol in library and then importing runtime, but I got the same inconsistant result as described above.

If anyone has another solution then please revert back.

regards
Paresh Maru

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Font Embedding
Here is a site that loads fonts as part of a shared library I think.

Blue Cotton

I have a site that has 90 fonts for a design application. The shared font file is 3.8 megs! It takes forever to download. In my shared font library swf that is 3.8 megs I just have the fonts in the library and then a linkage id. I believe these fonts are embedding all character glyphs. I could really shrink the size of my shared font library if I could change this to only upper case, lower case and punctionation. Is there a way to do that for each font?

Or is there a better way than how I'm doing this?

Thanks

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Embedding Font.. I Know..
I have a main swf. It loads child swf's using loadMovie.

I embed a font in one of the child swf's by saying Character > All.

Do I have to embed the same font in all of the child swf's ?


Thanks

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Embedding A Font
I found a tutorial online about embedding a font which I've been trying to do. I'm using a minimal font. I went into the character options and click 'embed all characters' then I exported the file. I posted it and the fonts look blurry, did I do something wrong during the process? Thanks everyone. First time user on this forum.
Rob

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Embedding Font On Swf
im having problem on sticking my font on swf's. fonts on my swf seems to appear on local computer but it is replaced by default font when viewed on other computers. can anyone help me.. tnx.. im using flash mx 2004 right now.. i remember that it is automatic on flash 5..

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Embedding Font.. I Know..
I have a main swf. It loads child swf's using loadMovie.

I embed a font in one of the child swf's by saying Character > All.

Do I have to embed the same font in all of the child swf's ?


Thanks

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Embedding A Font?
Alright, I got 3 fonts that are used in my site design, no one can see them (or at least, I don't think they can) they say it's blurry (most likely because they're seeing the wrong font (arial or something), so...I think embedding the fonts is what I want to do, right? And if so, how do I do that?! Thanks for the help.

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Font Embedding
Hi All,

I am working on a project where i need to embed diffrent font to diffrent Text Fields. As there are tooo many fonts i am trying to use font shared fonts but its not working....
Can any one help....

Thanks

Monica

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Embedding A Font
Hi there!
.
Please visit query31.net
.
You`ll notice that the font used in the floating captions
is different to the one which is used in the info-text.
The caption`s text comes from a variable which is
different for each button.
.
I thought fonts are embedded automatically?
Does this work for dynamic text, too?
How? (;

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Font Embedding
so I tried embedding fonts in my flash file..weird issue, I clicked on my dynamic txt box, then hit embed, selected upper,lower, and symbols. when I go to test the movie the type is all distorted and wide? have any info for me

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Embedding Font
Hi guys,
Straight to the question: i have several text fields in my movie (dinamic and input), is it possible to embed a font once for all the fields or do i have to embed it for each of them?
Thanks in advance.
A

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Embedding Font
Is there a way to embed a font for the whole movie with all its variations like Bold, Italic, Underline?

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Font Embedding... Help
Hi there,
Is there any way to make a swf install a font into any computer that runs it? I've tried the dynamic text embeding thingie but I didn't get it to work, so I wonder if I could just make the swf upload the font to the user...
it's really important, since no text at all is appearing in some computers...

thanks in advance.

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Problem In Font Embedding
hi everybody

in my site i m using rare fonts, which is only i m having. To make it visible on viewers pc, I have to break apart all the matter of that font but that time the size of movie increases, To avoid this what i should do, plz help me.

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Font Embedding Question...
is it possible to embed a font in a flash movie just once in the main movie clip and have all other movie clips loaded dynamically use the same font without having to embed it in every instance of a loaded clip?

if it is, how is one to accomplish this?

zachary

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Globally Embedding A Font?
Is there a way to globally embed one or two fonts? Like, if I have 20 different swfs that gets loaded in and out of 1 main swf, can I just embed the font in that main swf and have it work for every dynamic field? If so, how do I do it?

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Font Embedding With Preloader
Hi,

I've following problem.
In my flashmovie I use an embedded font for dynamic Textfields. My preload-Animation runs between frame 1 and 3. But it appears when the font is loading completely. (10 seconds is showing a blank screen). What can I do to start the animation immediately?

Thanks a lot

Rocco

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TextArea Font Embedding
I have a textArea component (mx 2004 pro) on the stage at _root. Here's the code.... The xml loads fine, but the font will not embed. If I publish the movie then delete the font from my font's folder to test, it defaults to times roman....HELP!!!!!!

_global.styles.TextArea.setStyle("backgroundColor" , "none");
_global.styles.TextArea.setStyle("fontSize", "8");
_global.styles.TextArea.setStyle("embedFonts", "true");
_global.styles.TextArea.setStyle("fontFamily", "FFF Business");
var xmlURL = "beliefs.xml";
var myXML = new XML();
myXML.ignoreWhite = true;
myXML.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
trace("XML is loaded");
_root.beliefs.text = this.firstChild;
} else {
trace("error loading XML");
}
};
_root.beliefs.text = "";
myXML.load("beliefs.xml");
stop();


OR


var xmlURL = "beliefs.xml";
var myXML = new XML();
myXML.ignoreWhite = true;
myXML.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
trace("XML is loaded");
_root.beliefs.text = this.firstChild;
} else {
trace("error loading XML");
}
};
_root.beliefs.text = "";
_root.beliefs.setStyle("backgroundColor", "none");
_root.beliefs.setStyle("fontSize", "8");
_root.beliefs.setStyle("embedFonts", "true");
_root.beliefs.setStyle("fontFamily", "FFF Business");
myXML.load("beliefs.xml");
stop();

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