I have approx 3000 fonts installed and enabled in my mac but not all the fonts were loaded in flash UI panel.'ve verified all the fonts that it's working using Font Book and Linotype Font Xplorer Pro
View 1 RepliesI ran into the 'fontswf' utility to embed TTF fonts into SWF and I am struggling to load them at runtime from my app. All the examples I find online refer to loading the font via [Embed] but I am actually loading them with a flash.display.Loader and from what I gather, once the Loader.contentLoaderInfo fires an Event.INIT I need to register the font, like so:
public function handleLoaderComplete( event:Event ):void {
var FontClass:Class = event.target.applicationDomain.getDefinition( fontName );
Font.registerFont( FontClass );
}
The problem is I don't know what to pass in as fontName. I am generating my SWF through:
$ fontswf -a belshaw -o belshaw.swf belshaw.ttf
But when I try to call getDefinition( 'belshaw' ), I get an error saying 'Variable belshaw is not defined'. Any suggestions on how to accomplish this?The alternative is to generate my on SWF files through templating an .as file and compiling them, but I would rather use a built in tool like fontswf if it's already there.
my web site has a lots of text field. it is xml based site.it is locally run perfectly but after i upload it to my server it's text fields' fonts replace to default fonts.some text gone down.so its confused to me.i used Myridpro font.now it is replace to default font .can u tell what is the solution for that..? [URL]
View 1 RepliesI 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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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?
TL;DR Original Version: I have a flash application which loads external .swf files containing embedded fonts, so that these fonts can be used within the main application. We're accomplishing this by using the following ActionScript code on anything which uses custom fonts:
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- Created a seperate swf with 2 fonts in the library, linkage "_Arial" and "_ArialBold". "_ArialBold" has the style set to "bold". On the first frame I have:
Font.registerFont(_Arial);
Font.registerFont(_ArialBold);
When I load the swf in my main application and itterate through the list of available fonts the 2 new fonts are returned, but fontName outputs "Arial" in both cases not the linkage name.
textformat.font = "Arial";
This works fine, but I can't figure out how to assign the embedded font "_ArialBold" to a textfield. How is this done?
I've recently had to format my computer and now having a problem with the flash actionscript window: the actionscript text looks like bold, or in a different font. The problem is that when I search for something like "flash" and "fonts", no matter which other words I use, always comes a lot of things about fonts for flash files, or for flash embedding fonts, but never for the program itself. Wich font is missing in my system that flash CS3 needs?
View 1 RepliesI am trying to use embeded fonts in a flash site, but whenever I use [Embed] the swf never loads. I am following this example: [URL]
No errors, just a "Movie not loaded" when right clicking the page.
UPDATE: When debuging, this error appears:
Exception fault: VerifyError: Error #1014: Class mx.core::FontAsset could not be found.
When i load an external swf file it looses quality and renders blurry. But the swf itself (the external one) looks perfectly fine standalone. Now i ask myself, is this really a flashbug or what the heck is it?
Because i wrote an elearning player wich references hundreds of this files, its not very funny to see the quality dropping. To get some meat for you, i created a small site, wich should make the problem much clearer:
Click here and explore the strange bug
Right I can upload the font to the server.But the only examples I can find - require registerFont(Verdana);Which means I'll need to create a new SWF with the new font embedded and reupload to the server. I need an automated way of doing this or perhaps something different altogether?
View 2 RepliesIs there any way to alter the fonts and font sizes WITHIN the bulk of text?ie. If I wanted to have a header in one font, and the rest of the text in another.Rif I wanted to add a url hyperlink.I did a site for a friend, and used the dynamically loaded textboxes so he could update it himself by just changing the .txt file.At the moment all the scrolling textboxes are in one font. I would love to be able to change this, and even more, would love for my friend himself to be able to mix different fonts and update it himself
View 6 RepliesI've run into this incredibly annoying problem today. I have numerous dynamic textfields in my movie that embed the font Gill Sans MT. Some of them are normal/regualar, some of them are bold. But, in the published swf all bold text fields are displayed as normal/regular! I've investigated this for hours, and the only way I can get the bold font to display properly is to NOT use the regular one anywhere in the movie.
I also tried making a new flash movie containing two text fields, one that embeds Gill Sans Normal, and one that embeds Gill Sans Bold and that worked fine. So my suspicion now is that my original .fla has somehow gone corrupt so that the bold font data is overwritten with the normal font data. Is this a known issue?
I want to import some fonts to Flash. But I don't know how.
View 6 RepliesI'm trying to embed a font in FlashDevelop. My folder structure is My embed metadata is
[Embed(source = 'resources/04B08.TTF', fontName = '04b08')] public var _04b08:Class;
My code is
public var titleFormat:TextFormat;
public var titleText:TextField;
private function init(e:Event = null):void
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If I use this, I get
But I uncomment the titleText.embedFonts = true; line, I get This is the method that all of the guides I can find use. What should I do to get it to work?
The fonts I want to add is Tai le, .
And the unicode range is U+1970 - U+1974, I've tried to embed the font, but did not work. I only got "ᥐᥐᥐᥐ".
how can I use Tai le font in the Flash?
I have made an animation using a lot of text and it looks fine on my Mac, but when I test it on a Windows system it looks awful. I thought that you would get what you see on any platform using Flash, but apparently not.
I have used the font "Plantagenet Cherokee" which I don't think is a standard font in Windows. I have tried to embed the font in the library, but it doesn't seem to work..
Is there any way I can make it work in Windows without starting over?
I am new to flash and having a problem with fonts not showing up in the font list. I am trying to develop my first flash based site and designed the base in Photoshop, using a .TTF font that I downloaded. The font shows up fine in photoshop but when the file is imported into flash it says the font is not available.
View 4 RepliesI'm experiencing difficulties with Flash 8 not recognizing the majority of a font family.Its strange because Photoshop & Illustrator recognize them & display them just fine.[code]...
View 6 RepliesWindows XP - Flash CS3: I have a family of fonts installed on my sytem, all Printer Font Metric (.PFM), Flash IDE only shows 2 of the 4 Do I need to use/convert to OpenType fonts for universal compatibility?
View 1 RepliesAs adobe's phone cust. service is rubbish, making me wait for half an hour just to tell me they can't even try to help me with fonts that are not purchased from adobe, I have turned to this message board in the hopes that someone here can help me with my latest in a perpetual series of dillemmmas with this nightmare of a program...
Im using flash cs5 at work on a mac pro with juiced up processors, memory, etc. I installed a bunch of fonts, mostly ttf and otf and when flash loads I'd say about 40% of the fonts that I installed don't show up in the font list. This sucks. Adobe's good programs like photoshop and illustrator show all my fonts, no questions asked. I have tried uninstalling and re-installing the fonts, re-starting flash, and disabling fonts. My one breakthrough was when i created another account on my computer and tried installing a font which was not showing up in the new user's font book. Lo and behold, the font shows up in flash! I have about 900 fonts on my computer which may be alot but I have used previous versions of flash with around that number of fonts and I don't recall any problems. I really dont want to switch my user account as this is a company computer and it will throw off company related access.
I have an issue with an apparent bug in Flash Pro CS5.5. I have recently upgraded to CS5.5 Master Collection from my previous version of 4.0. The bug is when I create a fonts FLA file with fonts embedded in it that I want to use throughout an entire site. I correctly configure those fonts as export for runtime sharing.
In any other FLAs in which I wish to use the shared fonts, I either (a) drag the assets from one library to the other, or (b) add them to the new fla and configure them as import for runtime sharing (both of which achieve the same result).
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Is there a way to create embedded "pure as3" swf fonts using compc (without the flex framework integration)? If I embed a font like this in my as3:
package fonts
{
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.text.Font;
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which prevents me from using the embedded font in "pure as3" projects. Is there a way to get flex-free fonts using compc?
I am developing PDF to e-book converter which will run on a server.I need to programmatically extract embedded fonts from PDF file to finish the project.Now I am able to extract images and text, but to display content in the Flash Player precisely I need the fonts to be extracted from PDF and compiled to SWF to be loaded by Flex application at run time.
I am wondering if it's possible, as such tool as pdf2swf.exe from SWFTools is able to do this. I have decompiled the swf file produced by the tool and there were fonts embedded.The extracted fonts will be used for displaying the same content from PDF file only, just in Flash player. So i think it will not be any rights violation? Moreover, people who will use the converter have all rights for the PDF files content.
So I see next workflow:
1. Call pdf2swf.exe to produce SWF file with fonts embedded;
2. Call some tool (Which one?) to parse previous SWF to SWFs with separate fonts.
3. Load the SWFs with fonts to Flex application at run time to correctly display content.
[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 "ō" 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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I am trying to render an image with text and images that are on a .swf file. What i am doing is saving all the objects and their properties in an XML and then using imagemagick to render all that. the problem i am facing is that imagemagick treats fonts very different than Flash, so i don't get a perfect copy of what i see in the flash to what i see on the rendered image.
how to match font sizes between flash an imagemagick?
This css can set style for all normal Arial, but I have Arial bold in project, how can I apply bold font for them?
@font-face {
src:url("fonts/ARIAL.TTF");
fontFamily: Arial;
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I have an actionscript 3 based website that is loading font outlines dyncamically, from external font swfs, using a common technique.
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var FontLibrary:Class = e.target.applicationDomain.getDefinition("font") as Class;
Font.registerFont(FontLibrary.fontClass);
Everything works fine until I attach assets from an swc containing text with the same font.At which point only the outlines from the swc are used. So for exampe, if the swc has a dyncamic TextField, containing the letters "abc" then only those letters will display in the website and not the entire alphabets that where previously loaded dyncamically from the font swf.
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.
From what I can tell on the Google Fonts API, these fonts are meant to be accessible by JavaScript/CSS. Is there any way to dynamically load them for a Flash application without having to download them locally to the server?Update: So I've been piddling around with this some more, and the following are just some thoughts I had about how to go about it. None of them work, but I feel like they're on the right track. Just for future reference...When you choose a font to use in the Google API, you're provided with a link to a CSS stylesheet that's generated based on your preferences:[code]
I initially tried using just the href URL inside my <fx:Style source=.../>, but ActionScript rejected this (not sure if it was because it wasn't local, or it realized it didn't end in .css).After that failed, I copied the link into my browser and manually retrieved the CSS, pasting it inside <fx:Style> tags like you would with any other CSS. Again, ActionScript didn't like this because it couldn't locally locate the URL.I suspect some of these precautions are in place due to the whole 'security sandbox' bit that Flash enforces.
Wonder if anyone has run into a situation in which Flash fails to recognize an embedded font with a title like "Gotham rounded" and a style of "italics?" I can't seem to embed the style because of the double name of the font.
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