Flash :: Embeding Font Outlines When Needed

JSFL And Font Outlines
Hi,
I have (I think) a corrupt FLA that is including font outlines for no adequately explained reason, however, the alternative is that I have a perfectly valid textfield with font outlines embedded lost in the murk of the library clip definitions and hidden somewhere that I cannot see.

I've been searching for an automated way to search for and unset font embedding in every single text field found in the FLA, but have run out of imagination and time to waste on it.

Has anybody out there got any ideas how to approach this?

Cheers,
Gaius

Embedding Font Outlines
I've got a Flash™ movie with quite a few dynamic text fields. For each text field, I'm having to embed the same font every time. I use to think that once you embed one font, to a text field, that same font wont have to be embedded again. However, that's not happening. . . Therefore, after having to embed the same font for every text field, the file size increases each time, and publishing takes FOREVER! . . . What's the solution, or is the nature of the beast?

Example: Draw Font Outlines
There have been many posts about how to draw lettes dynamically. This is an example of drawing the font outlines dynamically. Not the same as "writing" them, but an interesting technique that I hope is helpful.
http://jerryscript.hostrocket.com/fl...drawfonts.html

Italics And Font Outlines
Hey guys, I've got a quick question...hopefully an easy solution. I've got a dynamic text box that receives HTML via .net remoting. The text box is configured for font outlines (upper, lower, punc, and numerals). When run, all the text shows up nice and anti-aliased...except for anything in italics, they don't show up at all. I've tried using several different fonts but still get the same result. Has anyone experienced this or have any ideas on how to fix 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

Font Outlines When Loading In HTML Text
I am loading my text in externally and formatting it with simple HTML tags, yet I can't view it if I check the include font outlines box, is there any way around this

Pete

Minor Disaster Involving Font Outlines
hi—

my hard drive crashed over the weekend and i had to reinstall system software.

in a couple of movies i was using a postscript typeface by jonathan hoefler (knockout), which flash now refuses to recognize—the type looks sh***y in both the .fla and the published .swf.

could the implosion of my hard drive and subsequent reinstallation of system software wreak havoc with my fonts?

any advice?

Embed Font Outlines With HTML Variables?
I'm importing some variables with HTML formatting into a dynamic text object that has "Embed Font Outlines" for all characters turned on.

When I use HTML formatting like around a variable, certain letters are missing and the first letters of some words are missing!

But if I turn off the Embed Font Outlines (No Characters) the HTML formatting works correctly.

Is there any way to use the HTML formatting with the embedded fonts?

Font Outlines For Coded Text Field
Just seeing if anyone knows how to embed font outlines for a textfield that doesnt exist yet or if there is some way I can do this with shared font files.

If I create an input text field on the stage and choose character to export A-Z..etc then it looks fine in the movie and I can zoom in and out of the text without distortion.

If I create a text field with the createTextField command in actions script and assign it a font like so...

fieldFormat = new TextFormat();
fieldFormat.font = "arial";

that obviously does not work to display the font properly. Zooming in and out of the movie causes the text to move around all weird. Thanks for any help.

How To Add Embedded Font Outlines Externally For Xml Reading
I have an e learning application, this call multiple swfs, that call xml files.
The original api is in English and I have to translate it in Spanish.

The swfs have a dynamic text that have embed font outlines that no have the "ñáéíóú" characters ,then when the swfs call the xml these characters are missing.

I dont have the flas.The developers team no have time to support my project.

I start from 0.

Is there any possible solution for this problem?

Exist any script instruction that add these characters into a loaded movie?
Tks

Embeding A Font Using AS
Hi there,

I'm trying to embed a font in a dymanic text field which I created in actionscript, however when I use:
myTextField.embedFonts = true; it no longer displays the text.
the code I and using is...

this.loadVariables("mod.txt");
this.createTextField("myTextField", 1, 0, 0, 350, 50);
myTextField.embedFonts = true;
myTextField.border = true;
myTextField.multiline = true;
myTextField.html = true;
myTextField.variable = "intro1";
myTextField.wordWrap = true;
myTextField.autoSize = "center";
myTextField._visible = true;

Embeding A Font
I am working on a project that requires a font that not every viewer may have: "Bauhaus 93". I have heard of embeding fonts before so that the font is downloaded and the viewer sees what I want them to see. How do I do this?? Thanks for your help.

Font Embeding
Is there a way to create a FLA file with the font's that I'm going to use in my project, that I can access it from other FLA documents. Is there any tutorials or anything.

Font Embeding
Hi friends,

Is their any way to embed fonts into flash and edit the swf file(entering values to the text box) in a different system where there is no font installed in the system
Please help
Thanks & Regards,

Rajesh

Embeding Font In CS3.
Hi,

I am trying to embed font in CS3. The chinese text is visible on local desktop but not on remote desktop.
Below are the steps that I have followed.

* created a new font in Library and given a linkage name to it. [Tried with Arial UniCode MS and Lucida Sans Unicode]
* Given this font name to textField on stage.
* Registered this new font.
* enumerated the font in an array.Later assigned this fontname to Font instance.
* Used FontInstance.fontName as textFormat's font and applied this textformat as defaultTextFormat.
* Assigned chinese hardcoded text.

I tried with textFieldName.embedFont=true, but it didn't help.

This swf shows chinese text on local desktop. But same swf when viewed from a remote desktop, chinese text appears as squares.

Let me know if I am missing any step.

Thanks in advance.
Coder

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Edited: 11/13/2008 at 10:41:04 PM by codeCODER

Font Embeding
Hi

When exporting a Font in flash you can set if you want it Bold, Italic , etc. However if you select bold only the bold/italic or both only that version of the characters are exported. Then if I want to display in that textfield an htmlText that part is in bold and part not it wont display properly. for example : "Hello World". Will only display "Hello" if textfield has bold enabled and only "World" if it´s not.
Is it possible to export all style versions of a font in a same font object?
Which will be the correct way to do this?

thanks,

Polaco.

Embeding Font?
Does anyone knows how to embed a font? so far, i just use device font to make my font clear.

look at this website www.sixtailer.com ... how do they make the font clear like that? howwww?

plz help...

Embeding Font.
I have a listBox that uses a pixel font on my pc, when I upload I cant export the font with it like i would with a dynamic text field...any way around this? thanks alot...happy New Year all!

HTML Embed Font Outlines Alpha Motion
I would appreciate very much any help with this problem:

I´m using a Dynamic Text Field for representing HTML formatted text from a XML file.
My problem arises when I make the Motion Tween of the Movie Clip (Alpha value from 0 to 100%) containing this Dynamic Text Field.
In the Properties Panel of the Dynamic Text Field I have a default font selected, so the content of the variable is displayed with this font, but in the HTML text I change the font within the text (blabla) and then the following occurs:

(inside Properties Panel of the Dynamic Text Field)
- with Character > Embed Font Outlines For: > No Characters...the formatted text appears in the Dynamic Text Field before the Timeline reaches the Tween Motion and Alpha Animation doesn´t take effect
- Character > Embed Font Outlines For: > All Characters...the Alpha
works when the Tween Motion is reached but it´s only shown the characters before I change the font in the HTML code. All the text after the tags don´t appear.

Thanks in advance

Embeding Font Question
Hi Guys
if I want to load an external txt file into my flash movie using a specific non standard font, is there a way to do it without the user actually having the font on his comp. ex. embed the font somehow?

Font Embeding, Using Flash AS3 And Flex 3
Hi I have a problem to load fonts dynamicly into my flash depending on country/language.

I got it to work static tx to Scott morgan, but when I try to pass in variables to set the font I get an error.
But i ran into a problem when trying to make this dynamical, as im making a multilanguage site and japanees aint the favorit one for embeded fonts. So I’m sending in two variables, the url to the font swf and the font name.
I want to make the font swf in Flex as I can set the unicodeRange in there.

I have an fla running "typeTester.as" that atm sets the variables for the "fontLoader.as".
typeTester:

ActionScript Code:
package src
{
import com.husqvarna.loaders.FontLoader;
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.sampler.NewObjectSample;

public class typeTester extends Sprite
{

public function typeTester()
{
trace(typeTester);
var a, b;
a = "bin/fonts/_arial.swf";
b = "_arial";
trace("typetester")
var myFontLoader:FontLoader = new FontLoader(a, b);
addChild(myFontLoader);
}

}

}

Fontloader:

ActionScript Code:
package com.husqvarna.loaders{
import flash.display.Loader;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.text.*;

public class FontLoader extends Sprite {
var _fontName:String;
public function FontLoader(fontUrl:String, fontName:String) {
trace("FontLoader");
_fontName = fontName;
loadFont(fontUrl);
}

private function loadFont(url:String):void {
trace("loadFont");
var loader:Loader = new Loader();
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, fontLoaded);
loader.load(new URLRequest(url));
}

private function fontLoaded(event:Event):void {
var FontLibrary:Class = event.target.applicationDomain.getDefinition(_fontName) as Class;
trace("fontLoaded: "+_fontName);
trace(typeof(FontLibrary));// traces object
trace(typeof(FontLibrary._fontName));// traces string , should trace object to work i guess.
Font.registerFont(FontLibrary._fontname); // creates the error: 1067: Implict coercion of a value of type String to an unrelated type Class.
drawText();
}

public function drawText():void {
trace("drawText");
var tf:TextField = new TextField();
tf.defaultTextFormat = new TextFormat(_fontName, 16, 0);
tf.embedFonts = true;
tf.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;
tf.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
tf.border = true;
tf.text = "Scott was here
Scott was here too
blah scott...:;*&^% ";
tf.rotation = 15;
tf.x = 150;
tf.y = 150;

addChild(tf);
}
}
}

My problem is the row containing "Font.registerFont(FontLibrary._fontname);"

Btw, I’m kind of new to AS3, so any of you have a solution/suggestion on how to solve this?

Edit: I just realised i forgot to include fontLoader.as in the zip.

SetTextFormat Affected After Embeding Font?
I have a dynamic text object I am trying to use setTextFormat with. But after embeding the font (so it anti-alias) the formating I have set using setTextFormat does not take affect. Is this by design or am I doing something wrong?

I have tested it by removing the embeding so I know it is not my code (as the setTextFormat works on the un-embeded text).

Thanks in advance.

Kevin

Library Vs Stage Font Embeding..
I need a font embedded, with aliased text that can then be used by dynamically drawn text fields - but they need to be set to embedFonts=true !

This all works fine if the font is imported into the library, and checked to Alias. However, if you dont import the font to the lib, and draw a text field on the stage set to dynamic, check the Alias button, the text doesnt show up!!

You have to set the textfield to embedFonts=false - which I cant do in this case!!!

m

Any ideas why these two methods have different resutls.

AS3 - Font Embeding, Using Flash AS3 (and Flex 3)
Hi I have a problem to load fonts dynamicly into my flash depending on country/language.

I got it to work static tx to Scott morgan, but when I try to pass in variables to set the font I get an error.
But i ran into a problem when trying to make this dynamical, as im making a multilanguage site and japanees aint the favorit one for embeded fonts. So I’m sending in two variables, the url to the font swf and the font name.
I want to make the font swf in Flex as I can set the unicodeRange in there.

I have an fla running "typeTester.as" that atm sets the variables for the "fontLoader.as".

typeTester:

Code:
package src
{
import com.husqvarna.loaders.FontLoader;
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.sampler.NewObjectSample;

public class typeTester extends Sprite
{

public function typeTester()
{
trace(typeTester);
var a, b;
a = "bin/fonts/_arial.swf";
b = "_arial";
trace("typetester")
var myFontLoader:FontLoader = new FontLoader(a, b);
addChild(myFontLoader);
}

}

}
Fontloader:

Code:
package com.husqvarna.loaders{
import flash.display.Loader;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.text.*;

public class FontLoader extends Sprite {
var _fontName:String;
public function FontLoader(fontUrl:String, fontName:String) {
trace("FontLoader");
_fontName = fontName;
loadFont(fontUrl);
}

private function loadFont(url:String):void {
trace("loadFont");
var loader:Loader = new Loader();
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, fontLoaded);
loader.load(new URLRequest(url));
}

private function fontLoaded(event:Event):void {
var FontLibrary:Class = event.target.applicationDomain.getDefinition(_fontName) as Class;
trace("fontLoaded: "+_fontName);
trace(typeof(FontLibrary));// traces object
trace(typeof(FontLibrary._fontName));// traces string , should trace object to work i guess.
Font.registerFont(FontLibrary._fontname); // creates the error: 1067: Implict coercion of a value of type String to an unrelated type Class.
drawText();
}

public function drawText():void {
trace("drawText");
var tf:TextField = new TextField();
tf.defaultTextFormat = new TextFormat(_fontName, 16, 0);
tf.embedFonts = true;
tf.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;
tf.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
tf.border = true;
tf.text = "Scott was here
Scott was here too
blah scott...:;*&^% ";
tf.rotation = 15;
tf.x = 150;
tf.y = 150;

addChild(tf);
}
}
}
My problem is the row containing "Font.registerFont(FontLibrary._fontname);"

Btw, I’m kind of new to AS3, so any of you have a solution/suggestion on how to solve this?

Edit: I just realised i missed to include the fontLoader.as in the zip.

Attached Files

Embedding Font Outlines Fills Open Characters And Does Not Display Unicode
i generated a unicode truetype font using fontographer 4.1.

then, in Flash mx i created a dynamic text field, checking font outline embedding to "all".

then i load utf-8 encoded variables into the movie from a php script.

the first problem is that letters with "holes" like A, D, O, P, etc. are displayed with the holed FILLED!!!

second, the unicode chars are not displayed. i tested that with actionscript by checking the character codes of the loaded text strings, and it gives plain ASCII numbers, which i then convert to unicode notation uXXXX, and only then they are displayed correctly.

ok, i tried using shared fonts. DOES NOT WORK! well.. it works only partly - the font _is_ loaded, but in the movie, where I load the font, no frame labels are recognised, so when i write gotoAndPlay("test") (and there _is_ such label) the movie resumes playing from the first frame as if it could not find such label.

what's going on, people??? help!

Masking Dynamic Text WITHOUT Embeding Font
How can you mask a dynamic text box WITHOUT embeding the font because it displays chinese text (obviously, cannot be embeded). I have tried put it inside a movieclip, but failed. Please help.

Embeding Non-english Characters In A Font In The Library
sup guys, i'm having troubles again

i'm one of many unfortunate ppl who live in Central Europe (Slovenia), where apart from the basic characters in english language we use 6 more characters. And these 6 characters are the nightmare for every designer who lives here!!! These are the čšžČŠŽ (don't know if you can see them correctly though).

anyway... i'm creating a site in flash with shared font symboly accross many separate SWFs using a shared library. but the library seems to embed only the english and the standard characters since these 6 characters don't show up in the finished SWF's.

you guys have any idea how to handle this ... i've been looking over the web for solutions but it's too complicated for my brain

anyway .. here's some of the pages i found concerning this matter if it helps: http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000211.php
http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...icode_in_flmx/

please help me!!!

How To Embed Bold/italic Font Variations If Using CSS/XML/Embeding?
Hello fellow flash compatriots!

Here is a brain itch, I have successfully tamed the embedded-font-css-xml debacle [the issue that makes long threads]

But unfortunately I can't get it to work on a font variation.

Here is what I have:

CSS:
h1 {
font-family:"Univers 57 Condensed";
color: #FFCC00;
font-size:16px;
}
p {

font-family:"Verdana";
font-size: 11px;
color: #FFFFFF;
}
.bold1 {
font-family:"Verdana";
font-size: 11px;
font-weight:"bold";
color: #FFFFFF;
}
.bold2 {
font-family:"Verdana-Bold";
font-size: 11px;
color: #FFFFFF;
}

Now the "Univers 57 Condensed" font and the "Verdana" font are in the library, exported on first frame. I load the XML CDATA, CSS a-size-it and associate it to my text fields, and both WORK just fine.

However, I can't make Verdana text bold. I've tried:
test
and:
test
and:
test

"Verdana-Bold" being a Verdana font, in the library with the property bold "checked" and set to "linkage name": "Verdana-Bold" [however I have learned its not the linkage name you have to use, but the font's actual name in the CSS to get it to work!!!!! how un obvious...

What else have i tried... well I tried downloading Verdana Bold [since its freeware] but this just adds the font into my Verdana font when I look in my font sets [I'm on a mac]... somehow I have to tell flash to embed [look in] the bold font that is part of the verdana package...

has anyone ever managed to do this? I'm stuck! And this seems like such a basic thing to be able to do... where's my bold text option???

Thanks!

Seb.
p.s. If i don't embed my verdana, then I cant see it! since I have to embed the "Univers 57 Condensed" font into the same fields...!

Help Needed With An Embedded FFF Font...
Hey guys

Can someone help me out with a weird problem we're having?

We're trying to
a) Fetch a variable from a .txt file for display in the movie

- this .txt file is in the format 'start=1&usersOnline=2&loaded=1' and is storing the number of users that the PHP code says is online from recent clicks - This works just fine

b) We want then to display this imported data in the font FFFHarmony (one of the fonts from Fonts for Flash...The weird thing is that this font won't embed?! Is this something special with FFF fonts that we're missing?!)

At the moment, with FFFHarmony.ttf in my windows/fonts folder, the swf file displays just great... BUT, remove the ttf font from the windows/fonts folder, and boom, tiny 6pt(?) times new roman fonts used for this top left info instead....

Check out this for an example>>>
http://www.emplaw.addr.com/test2.html

If anyone has a great idea today, please contact as soon as possible... I'm sure this is just our own inexperience with dynamic variables here, there must be a way of doing it...

I can upload the .fla code also if someone wants to play with it, else we'll just go with Arial as it's a font that everyone should have so we'll avoid this problem

Hope to hear from you guru's soon!!!

Thank in advance
Darren

Pixel Font Needed
Hey everyone,

I'm working on a project where I need an arial pixel font (11pt). I was going to purchase FontFlasher but I figured I would see if anyone here can provide that font. It would be nice to not have purchase FontFlasher since I only need one font. I would really appreciate it if anyone could help out.

Thanks!

Help Needed With The Font Import
Hello everyone can anyone help me wit the importing the fonts into the flas hmovie so you could see the fonts in the movie even if you do not have that fonts installed on your pc.
Thanks in advance!!!

Simliar Font Needed
Greetings everyone...

I am currently developing a small project of mine and I am rather desperate to get a similar font like this for free since I find the idea of paying $ 23 for a single font that I might not even ever use in my entire life again a redicilous one...

So if anyone of you decent folks out there has happens to know any similiar fonts or can at least hint me where to start looking let me know

Right now I'm pretty tired from looking since I already spent almost 3 hours... for one single font...dang

Thanks in advance

Importing Only Needed Font Letters
Im using a font that is 32kb in size and I only use a few letters from it. How do I tell flash to only import the needed letters instead of loading the whole font?

Text Font Change Help Needed.
Can someone teach me how can I change font,size, color, and position of this?
i = 0;
speed = 28;
type = new Sound();
type.attachSound("type");
type.setVolume(25);
str = "Here some text"+newline;

setInterval(write, speed, str);
function write(str) {
i++;
sp = substring(str, 0, i);
output = sp;
if (output == str) {
type.stop();
} else {
type.start();
}
}

Thanks a lot!!!

PC/Mac Font Friendly Dynamic HTML Text Help Needed
I have a project that I'm working on where I want to allow a user to control some text formatting for a Flash interactive via external XML. They want to create links and bold text in paragraphs and such.

Here's the problem. I go through the following steps to set up a predefined dynamic text field (HTML formatting):
Create dynamic text field on the stage
Go to library, create font symbol for HelveticaNeue font
Set dynamic text field on stage to font symbol for HelveticaNeue
Turn on embedding for dynamic text field
Set HTML formatting to true on dynamic text field
Write out ActionScript for filling dynamic text field -- e.g. THIS FIELD: + someVariableFromXML
Publish movie
Bold text disappears

What am I doing wrong here? I need to make sure font symbols are present and dynamic text fields are set to embedded fonts to ensure PC/Mac font display for dynamic content for oddball non-standard fonts.

Why doesn't this work? When I create the font symbol and set it to bold, STILL doesn't work.

Please advise.

Thanks,
IronChefMorimoto