I am using swf embed font[normal] in my flex application but if i apply bold or italic for the text,its looking normal only. let me know if you have any solution.
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How to embed font so it would have both styles - bold and italic.
When creating new font from drop down menu there are only either bold or italic or other style, but how to embed font with all styles?
I've imported four fonts into the Library and used Linkage to enable Export for Actionscript. The fonts are the four versions of Trebuchet MS:
Trebuchet MS
Trebuchet MS Bold
Trebuchet MS Bold Italic
Trebuchet MS Italic
They are named like this in the Library and for example the 'Bold Italic' version has both 'bold' and 'italic' selected in its properties.
Then I drew a dynamic textfield and selected for it's font 'Trebuchet MS Bold Italic*' so that the embed font was used. I also embeded the glyphs for 'Basic Latin' and 'Latin 1'.
Then I used this code to fill it with text:
ActionScript Code:
my_txt.embedFonts = true;
my_txt.text = "This is a sample";
The text is placed, however, it is always in the Trebuchet MS regular font. Also when I click the bold and italic icons in the Property Bar, the font won't go bold/italic. The same for just bold and just italic. It only turns bold/italic when I delete all font symbols accept the Bold Italic one.
I want to use the "Calibri" font bold/normal styles.It doesn't seem to embed properly though.I have tried every different way to embed it but it just doesn't embed properly.Its blurry compared to static textfields,and the bold text shows up as not bold...has anyone been able to embed this font properly?
View 1 RepliesI have a client that I build a business card "builder" application for in Flex. All the text elements that users add to the stage are Flex spark TextArea. I have a list of fonts that we allow the user to set on the text areas and some of the fonts included do have Bold and Italic versions of the font. The others that do not I simply disable these options in the control panel so the user doesn't have the option to click bold or italic buttons.
Photoshop does something similar if you load a font that doesn't have Bold or Italic options they disable the dropdown that would allow you to select these options in the text pallet http://grab.by/bOTC
When bold and italic aren't an included font face then Photoshop as a couple of buttons for applying Faux Bold and Italic to the font. Basically they programmatically thicken up the font face or slat it to make it look italic.
I've tried just setting fontWeight and fontStyle on the fonts that don't have bold or italic included in the embedded fonts and the result usually is a "web safe" font shows instead of the selected font or nothing at all happens.
I am wondering if there is a programmatic way that anyone has found that will do this in Flash / Flex. Basically thicken the font face or tilt it slightly to look italic. My guess is this would be pretty difficult and not worth the time and effort to the client but would be a neat thing to figure out and have a solution for.
I am putting the finishing touches on an as3 project (developped in flex for code and flash cs4 to create the UI) and I am running into a mysterious font issue.
1) I am loading in a swf file with the font outlines (empty dynamic textfields with embedded characters on the stage. One text field for each regular / bold / italic / bold italic font styles).
2) I then load the swf and then in order to make sure that all font faces are properly available I list them in the output window with the following function:
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It is possible to bold some part of label in standard Button? example:ICON - normal_normal_text BOLD_BOLD_text.
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-Adobe Flash IDE (CS3)
-AS3
First off let me say I did try creating an extra text field off of the main stage set to Bold, and it's Verdana so I'm not exactly "selecting" a second font file all together to be embedded. Instead I am just setting the textfield property Bold to ON.
SO FAR I am not sure what I am doing wrong, but it does not want to go Bold. Aside from using Flex, which I know nothing about.
I've been trying everything with this issue so thought I'd put it out there to see if anyone can offer a solution or even advise if this is possible or not.This is the scenario:
I dynamically create a textField. I load an external CSS file into a stylesheet. From an XML file I load HTML content into the textField via .htmlText I have added the font to the library and have made it available for Export for ActionScript The HTML has spans with classes eg:
<span class="boldText">Flash Flash Flash</span>
The CSS states:
.boldtext {
font-family:Anivers;
font-style:italic;
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The font I'm using does not have any other family members like bold or italic Here is the problem. Leaving embedFonts = false things work just fine. But obviously I need to embed this font so all can see it. As soon as i set embedFonts = true I no longer get bold or italic.Is this a case of because the font does not have a bold or italic the system it just rendering, or am I just missing something? For example the checkboxes in the font's properties where you can choose bold and italic. I tried these but no luck.
I can access the read only text property of a StaticText instance (added at design time) by using "for(i=0; i <this.numChildren; i++) .... etc".I can use this text, I can trace it, etc, and I know that you can't write to it (ie its read only). BUT can I some how test that text to see if it is bold/italic/regular?[code]The charCode is the same bold or not, sort of obvious after I think about it.
View 2 Repliesi made my flash design loading text from a txt file. But the problem is that i can't control the bold and italic from the text.So what i need is kinda content management. The company where i make the design for want to have control of the contant. I already did a quick search about loading html in flash but i wasn't lucky to find anything usefull.
View 2 RepliesHow can I embed my custom font and it's bold variant (and it's faux italic variant, because there is not real italic version) and get the b and i tags working in a htmlText field?I can use the htmlText field with system fonts (with b and i tags working) ... or I can use 1 of the embedded fonts for the whole text.but I can't seem to get flash to understand the bold and italic variants are also embedded.
createTextField("dynamic_txt", 2, 40, 170, 350, 350); dynamic_txt.embedFonts = true; var emphatic:TextFormat = new TextFormat(); emphatic.size = 40; emphatic.color = 0xFFFFFF; emphatic.font = "EurostileT"; dynamic_txt.html = true;[code]...
I have a dynamic text field with the text "IMAGES". The font is Arial, it has BOLD and ITALIC checked, and has basic Latin fonts embedded. Now, I use Actionscript to change the text:
textField.text = "IMAGES";
Suddenly the text disappears! Now, it seems to me that since BOLD and ITALIC are checked on the text field, changing the .text value should simply change the text itself, which should then be rendered in bold and italic, and since I have bold+italic Latin glyphs embedded, it should display properly. But what's clearly happening is that when I set the text using Actionscript, it is attempting to display the NORMAL font instead, and since it's not embedded, it won't display. I know this because if I create another proxy text field off the screen and embed the NORMAL Arial glyphs, the original text field's text will display just fine - as normal-weight text.
But why is this? Do I have to use a TextFormat object to set the text to Bold and Italic EVERY time I want to dynamicaly change the text? This seems silly. I simply want my text field to be bold and italic every time the text changes, and NO normal text!
i have a problem with the flash textFormat. I want to write an editor, which only outputs bold (<b>) and italic (<i>) tags and not the other information flash adds to an htmlText.
for example in this case the output trace (myTextField.htmlText) should be exactly the input.
ActionScript Code:
import flash.text.TextFormat;
myTextField.htmlText = "huhuh <b>asjdja</b> asdasd";
trace (myTextField.htmlText);
is there a cleaner solution than replace the other information (font-size etc)
I have an HTML string that uses bold and italic tags which I need to apply to a TextField. I need the font to be embedded though and I can't seem to find a way to do this. From what I've read it seems that Flash needs to use the actual bold/italic versions of the font rather than just changing it with HTML? In which case I can't do it all in one textfield because you can't change font? The only solution I found was a suggestion to use the [Embed()] method rather than the method I am using (embedding the font in a library symbol) but I don't think you can do that either with Flash CS3?
View 5 RepliesI'm loading an xml file into flash. I have formatted certain parts of the xml file with various html tags, however I run into problems with the <b>bold</b> and <i>italic</i> tags. Even though I have <a href> and <ul> tags working fine?
I have set my text field to html while also using the "myTextfield.htmlText = " as well as using the CDATA tag in the xml file. I also checked the macromedia livedocs, and it says that these tags are standard and are handled by the flash player...
I am using XML file to pass text into a SWF. How can I use styles, either inline or external, to make certain text in the middle of a sentence appear italic or colored or bold, etc. A character or somethinng that you can put right in the XML file.
Code:
<mainText>You have the email message with two domain names: character here hackistan.edu character here and >kevinsgym-uoh.co<. Below is a list of resources to discover more information. Match the web site with the type of information you would expect to find.</mainText>
textAB is a dynamic textfield. How to make a[0] bold and to keep a[1] normal?
receiveLoad.onData = function(src) {
var a:Array=src.split(",,");
textAB.text=a[0]+newline+a[1];
I'm trying to embed this font into a flash website and it works fine on my local machine (because i have the font installed) but not when I see it on other machines. I have 2 files. fonts.swf and main.swf. Here is how it works. Fonts.swf
ActionScript Code:
package {
import flash.display.*;
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How do you make some parts of spark.components.RichText bold?[code]...
View 4 RepliesI have a strange issue where a dynamic text field will not show a bold version of a font (Gerstner BQ) if the regular version is on the stage in a static text field.Remove the static text field and the dynamic text field displays the bold font correctlyI have created a test FLA to reproduce this and by turning the layer with the static text field on and off (Publish settings -> Flash -> include hidden layers [unchecked]), the issue is quite clearhis issue is so big for me that I have had to abandon a project in CS5 and start again in CS4 just to work around this.
View 19 RepliesI've embedded Arial into flash for a login box and it isn't accepting the '@'.. is there any way I can force the embed ? I did the embed in the GUI and not in actionscript..
View 11 RepliesI have set up a project (in the same way I have numerous projects before) that uses a seperate fonts SWF to provide the fonts to my project. Once loaded I register these fonts to the global font directory using Font.registerFont(). My text styles come from an externally loaded style sheet.
For some reason that I cannot figure out, when I try to create a textField and use my embedded fonts the text disapears from screen. If when creating the textField I set embedFonts to false then the text does appear at the right size and colour (as taken from the stylesheet), but obviously with a default system font where my nice custom font should be.
The code I am using is below:
TTWTextHelper.traceAvailableFonts();
TTWTextHelper.traceStyleSheet(myStyleSheet);
var myText = new TextField;
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I know that (apparently) my fonts are embeded as when I run TTWTextHelper.traceAvailableFonts() i get the two fonts listed.
public static function traceAvailableFonts():void
{
/*
* See what fonts we have to play with
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-Adobe CS3 Web Premium. -Compiling using AS3. I'm pulling in some text values from an external XML file for a "next" button and I set the font to bold when I made it Verdana. I'm not sure why but it still is normal verdana when I compile it.
I've found several posts similar to mine saying I need to embed the bold version of the font, but I don't have the option of purchasing or creating a bold Verdana. Since it is just Verdana, is there not a method I can use to simply bold the text?
I'm using Flex 4. I'm trying to apply a embedded font in all Alert components of the application, to get the same style that all the app, of course. I code in my CSS file:
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The font-family worked to all componentes, but not to the Alert component. In alert the text message and title got unvisible. If I change to other font-family it works correctly, just the embedded font doesn't work on Alert component. Anyone got this problem? Obs: The embedded font worked in all the app, just the Alert no.
I have a swf in AS3 pulling a content from a xml but I can't use Italic on the font.
Actionscript Code:
Action Scriptvar urlLoader:URLLoader=new URLLoader();urlLoader.load(new URLRequest("xml/news.xml"));urlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,onXMLFileLoaded);stop();function onXMLFileLoaded(e:Event):void{ var myXML:XML=new XML(e.target.data); content.text=myXML.content;content2.text=myXML.content2;}
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I have a swf in AS3 pulling a content from a xml but I can't use Italic on the font.
Code: Select allAction Script
var urlLoader:URLLoader=new URLLoader();
urlLoader.load(new URLRequest("xml/news.xml"));
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Is there a way to embed only a few letters from a font instead of embedding the whole thing?
View 2 RepliesWhen creating an mxml component it is easy to embed the desired font in this way:
@font-face {
src: local("Arial");
fontFamily: ArialEmbedded;
}
In my code I need to embed the font for a component that is the part of the class implemented in *.as file. How can I do this?
I'm feeling overgoogled atm, but still can't find any solution. I have font "Futura" with "Condensed Medium" style, actually 4 styles - "Medium, Italic, Condensed Medium, Condensed ExtraBold". However, when I embed it at runtime, it embeds just "Medium" style of font.
Embedding with code:
PHP Code:
[Embed(systemFont="Futura", fontName="PreloaderFont", fontStyle="Condensed Medium", mi
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