ActionScript 3.0 :: Changing Embedded Fonts Dynamically?
Jan 28, 2011
I have a movie with multiple languages. Most of the fonts used are embedded. What I've been doing is creating a new MovieClip for each language and in that movie clip assigning a font that can display that language, then depending on the language, load the appropriate MovieClip. I wonder though if there is a way to just change the font dynamically. However, it would be changing from one embedded font to another.
Would it be efficient to just make one generic text MovieClip with a certain font in it, then just title the movie clip by the font, and load that movie clip whenever I want to use that font?
like so:
ActionScript Code:
var title = new Arial;
title.textBox.text = "Page Title";
Also: Then could I change the font size dynamically if I did it the later way?
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Apr 21, 2009
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Nov 20, 2009
I have combed through the forums and read every font embedding article I could find and still I don't understand what's going on. I have created a simple test case that I have attached to this post. Hopefully someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong.Here's the situation ...ultimately, my goal is to be able to dynamically create text fields with embedded fonts (I'm using Arial or Arial Unicode) that can display a variety of languages (English and Russian are the primary ones I'm working on right now). In the attached sample, I have added a font to the library and set it to use Arial Unicode.I have 3 text fields on the stage: Field 1 is generated entirely from code using createTextField, Field 2 is a design-time text field that uses the embedded library font, and Field 3 is a design-time text field that uses basic Arial rather than Arial Unicode.For the 2 design-time fields I have embedded the glyphs necessary to display English and Russian as well as some others.I also have a few buttons on the stage to create the 3rd text field (using createtextfield), send english or russian text to all 3 fields, and turn embedding on/off of the generated text field.
Here are the results I've found:With embedding OFF:English shows up fine in all 3 text fields (in the generated one, it uses the system default font instead).Russian shows up in the generated field and in the 3rd field (basic Arial) but NOT in the field that uses the embedded library font.With embedding ON:NOTHING shows up in the generated text field the 2 design time fields function the same as they did before.I REALLY don't understand why the design-time text field doesn't work when it uses the library version of the font. Why should that matter? I also don't get why even ENGLISH doesn't work in the generated field when embedding is on.
//EDIT: I just tried using Arial as the font for the generated text field rather than using the linkage name for the library font and now the embedding works. So I guess my main question is why it doesn't work using the library font....I thought that using the library font .
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Jul 11, 2010
I save my (embedded) fonts in an external file (fonts.swf) that gets loaded at runtime. Pretty standard. I also use a bunch of UI artwork generated in the Flash IDE. Some of this artwork contains static textfields (thus, not proper TextFields that can change. Just frozen glyphs). Here's the problem: if I use the same font in any static textfield and then embed that same font into my collection of runtime fonts, the runtime font will refuse to render. It's the same effect you get if you set a textfield with embeddedFonts=true to use a font that isn't embedded. If I change the static textfields to use a different font, the runtime fonts work just fine.
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Dec 22, 2010
Edited Short Version:The Adobe Flash docs list a property embedFonts on TextAreas:
A Boolean value that indicates whether the font specified in fontFamily is an embedded font. This style must be set to true if fontFamily refers to an embedded font. Otherwise, the embedded font is not used. If this style is set to true and fontFamily does not refer to an embedded font, no text is displayed. The default value is false. Regarding the "If this style is set to true and fontFamily does not refer to an embedded font, no text is displayed" statement: How can I detect in ActionScript when this scenario happens?
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Oct 19, 2007
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var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
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Jun 21, 2009
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Aug 4, 2009
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Nov 20, 2011
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public var titleFormat:TextFormat;
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private function init(e:Event = null):void
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If I use this, I get
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Dec 28, 2007
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Jun 1, 2009
Using Flash CS3, I have created a class that when called will
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2.) Import external HTML into it,
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So far it works great, but now I'd like to be able to specify an embedded font from the css file. I followed the basic procedure for making a library symbol of the font, setting its linkage to Export for Actionscript on the first frame, and gave it a unique name "myFont"
In my style sheet, I tried using:
font-family: "myFont";
or
font-family: myFont;
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Jun 12, 2009
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Dec 2, 2009
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Jun 30, 2010
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[Embed(source = "assets/SKA_75_marul_CE_extended.ttf",
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Jan 17, 2010
[URL]It is a Drupal-powered, AMFPHP-connected AS3 web app. The data goes through to Flash with no problems, I have verified that UTF-8 is fine and all. The problem can be better seen in these URLs:
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A plaintext version of that link:
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The font is Inconsolata although I could use any monospace open-source font if necessary. You can see that I have embedded the font (I even opted for the dynamic textfields to embed the whole thing, full charset) as well as the "New Font" menu in the library. Inconsolata shows up with an asterisk in the CS4 authoring tool (which according to Adobe documentation means the thing is embedded).
I have tried other font embedding options to no avail. Inconsolata seems to have that "Ċ" character when used in the authoring but it is not showing up in the dynamic texts.Another problem I am having: if I use static text fields the font doesn't get embedded (WTF). I have to convert the field to dynamic and then it works ("the videogame history timeline" top left is a dynamic text field although I would prefer it not to be... that and others). If I use static text field the font gets converted to some sort of Times New Roman font.
The text is AS3-created (as well as the search results).I am embedding the text via HTML (.htmlText) and styling with CSS.The whole code is open source and can be found here:
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An example of how I fill in a text field can be found here:
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A snippet of such code is:
var ss:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet();
var css:String = ".title { color:#333333; font-family:Inconsolata; font-size:16; leading:2; } ";
css += ".date { color:" + StringUtils.rgb2web(data.color.r, data.color.g, data.color.b) + "; font-family:Inconsolata; font-size:14; leading:4; } ";
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May 23, 2011
I'm using Flash CS5. I've got an embedded font loaded from an external SWF. As far as I can tell, it's embedded properly - it used to work before I switched from the classic TextField - but I needed to switch because I need the advanced ligature support. My code is:
//setting up...
var text:TFLTextField = new TLFTextField();
text.width = 530;
text.height = 330;
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Edit: Just tried to switch the font to Arial, and it fell back to Times New Roman again. So apparently the problem is not with the embedding, but with the way I assign the font - meaning this may be less complicated than I originally thought. Scratch that, Arial worked after I changed embedFonts to false.
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Jan 4, 2011
I have a static textfield using Myriad Pro bold font that, when set to STATIC TEXT works absolutely fine, in the correct font.If I set it to DYNAMIC TEXT and test the SWF, the text shows up as a system font; not Myriad ProIf I set it to EMBED CHARACTERS the text doesn't show up at all on ANY system, whether the font is installed or not.
I have tried adding the font to the Library and using that "Family" for Properties>Character in my dynamic text box, but get the same results as when I don't set that to EMBED CHARACTGERS. I've tried selecting the font for the textfield as both the standard OS Font, as well as the one with the Asterisk next to it, but get the same results both ways.The library font is set to "export for actionscript" and "on frame 1".
I don't think it's an issue with the font not being available, as I'm able to see it when setting textfield to STATIC type, and I use the font in other CS4 products (Photoshop, etc.).
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Mar 2, 2008
It works great, but I can't figure out how to change the font in the textbox using an embedded font.I imported a new font into the library and named it "marriage". I also selected the export options. But the following doesn't work as expected:
format = new TextFormat();
format.font = "marriage";
tfield.setTextFormat(format);
Is there something else I need to do to use an embedded font? My eventual goal with this is to create a drop down menu with several fonts in it that people can use to change the font face in the text field.
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Mar 5, 2009
I have is "Embedded fonts: How does it work?" I have taken an example of the internet:
Code:
// be sure this is pointing to a ttf font in your hardrive
[Embed(source="C:WINDOWSFontsverdana.ttf", fontFamily="foo")]
var bar:String;
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If I make comment of the line "label.embedFonts = true;" then I see the text Hello world.
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May 27, 2009
i have embedded all of my different fonts in the library - (ie Regular, Bold, Semibold versions)When I try to call those fonts via their linkage name from my CSS file, they just don't appear at all.. NO test appears in fact.I can only get them to appear when I refer to them by their "real" name ie NOT: ChapProSemBold - Only: Chaparral Pro Semibold I can only get the variations of the font appearing together when embedfonts = false, but then the text looks crappy - even with "antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED".
When I set embedfonts = true, the type looks good - but I don't get the variations anymore! I just get the standard font - not my bold or semibold.
My CSS is:
Code:
p {
font-size: 14px;
font-family:Chaparral Pro;
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Feb 5, 2010
I have a dynamic text field on my stage with the instance name of "yesno". In the text box panel, (so not the code) I have it set to embed all the glyphs. In my code I have the following:
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Nov 14, 2009
I've attached 2 screenshots. The first shows the flash stage at its default size - as you can see my font is all distorted and weird looking but when you zoom in (image 2) it's exactly like it should be. What would make it look like this when the stage hasn't been zoomed out or anything, it's just from pressing cmd and enter from flash?
I embedded it by putting it into the fla's library.
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Nov 24, 2009
Presume there is a textField with fonts embedded using Flash (CS4) IDE's "Character Embedding" option of the textField property panel.How these embedded characters are stored actually?Is the embedded fontset accessible beyond this single textFiled and how?Is there any way to clone such a textFiled in runtime having a new dynamic textFiled object with all embedded characters included?
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Feb 10, 2010
i have a textfield, i embedded fonts and assigned htmlText, i.e.
txt.embedFonts = true;
txt.htmlText = '<b>my text </b>';
but it doesnt aplly html tags because of embedFonts... i tried to make style using css but didnt work....
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