I was given a fireworks png design that makes use of century gothic text with a faux bold applied. I can get a bold version of century gothic in flash, but this is thicker than the faux version. Can I force faux bold?
View 2 RepliesI was given a design in Adobe Fireworks that includes century gothic text with faux bold applied. Is there anyway to emulate this style in Flash?
View 0 RepliesIn CS3, I can create a clip with 2 dynamic text fields - fld1is say, Myriad Pro and fld2 is Myriad Pro with faux bold turned onfrom the properties panel. I can then do...fld1.htmlText = <b>Bold text</b>and fld1 text appears in bold text because the faux bold fontwas embedded in fld2.CS4 doesn't have a faux bold, and when I go to the text menuand choose bold, it doesn't faux bold fld2, it actually changes thetext to Myriad Pro Bold. The bold tag no longer works, neither doesthe strong tag. I can, however, use font face tag and set it toMyriad Pro Bold, and now fld1 will show up bold.
Now let's say I want to put all my text content in anexternal XML file so the client can update it and I don't want tohave to explain the inner workings of Flash and tell them that theycan't use the bold tag, they have to use the font face tag and setit to some random name that I come up with for the bold fontlibrary symbol (in case we don't want to use Myriad in the future).Do I really have to set up a function to examine strings forthe bold tag and replace it with the font face tag? Is there reallyno way to get the bold tag to work?
I 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 have a dynamic text box for 3 lines of text. I styled part of the text to be bold and part of it to be regular. When i click on the button to display the text it looks right the first time but if i click on it a second time then all of the text shows up bold instead of just the few lines i assigned the bold tag to.
View 18 RepliesI have a .doc file. I want to load the text from that file into Flash. So I convert it into a .txt using a website like this one: http:[url]..... I add in the little code at the beginning (myTextField=) and then Flash loads it fine. The only problem is any marked up text (italics, bold, underline) is lost. Is there any way to prevent this from happening? Or for Flash to load text from something other than a .txt? Or to manually reinsert html tags to the .txt and get Flash to understand them? Or something else I'm not considering?
View 6 RepliesI have a dynamic text on my stage called text_txt I want to write the html code <b><u>test</b></u> so here is my code
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It seems like I found a bug in Flash Professional CS5. For some reason a bold capital "U" will not render in htmlText. It will render fine in a normal text box and will render as a lowercase u or as a non-bold capital U. I have tried typing two UUs in a row, typing a letter before the U, but it always skips the bold capital U.
View 8 RepliesI opened up a file that was created in cs3 flash with cs5 flash and we have some text that is bold in our actionscript code. now when i load that file with cs5 the bold text drop's out of bold and is just plain text. Does anyone know if there is a quick fix for this because what was there before the <b></b> is not working now.
View 1 RepliesI'm adapting an off the shelf mp3 player and would like to make some text bold - namely [URL] the text that shows the current artist/song at the top. This is dynamic text from an XML file. I've embedded the fonts [Verdana regular and bold - OpenType] in Flash CS5 but the bold won't display even though the special characters do display [Jónsi].
View 10 Replies1.) I'm trying to put an email hyperlink in part of my text, but I can't seem to figure out how to do it. I tried the code snippets, click to go to web page but instead of an URL I typed "mailto:email@adobe.com" but when I tested it, nothing happened.
2.) How do I link to the other pages from within the website that I'm working on? Again, I'm a total newbie and I'm only familar with Dreamweaver.
3.) Lastly, how do I bold the typeface??? The text tool properties do not show any bold, italic, or underline icons, and the hotkey to bold is the break apart command.
4.) When I test my movie, how come I can't scroll down and see the footer area of the SWF??
I have a mc(which has my buttons and instance names) in the library, which I attach to the stage. I've added a faux linkage class as StickyNote. But I'm having issue accessing those button instances so I can add events etc.[code].....
View 9 Replies-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'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 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 got an FLA which was originally created using CS3, and i've got a dynamic textfield in it that uses font "Gadget".If i open the FLA in CS3, it gives me option to toggle the BOLD option, and when i compile it, the font appears to be bold in the compiled swf.
When I open the same FLA in CS5 (version 11.0.2.489),
---> I don't get any option to make the font bold on the same textfield,
---> and when i compile it, the text remain the same, it does not show as bold.
I've got a dynamic text field that I want to sometimes be bold, sometimes not. It's called "myTextField".I'm sending it a variable called "myText" and trying to bold it as follows:myTextField.text = "<B>" + myText + "</B>"
- The text field has the font embedded.
- I have some regular AND bold text in the text field in authoring
- The text field is set to receive HTML text in properties.
But it keeps putting "<B>" right in the text field before my variable and "</B>" after. What am I missing / not getting here?I know I've done this before, but can't find where.
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What do i need more for let li and b working?
i'm using a font called "AGBookBQ-Regular" in a dynamic text box, which loads a text file. i understand that to include the bold and italic options, i have placed another text box just out of view off the stage with these two options selected.italic works fine but the bold makes very little difference... it only stretches the font slightly.i've searched for the answer to make a much bolder font and it seems you can use a specific bold font as the bold font.i've tried this, but nothing happens. i think i'm interpreting it correctly, but if someone could please confirm this works and perhaps explain it a little clearer (using my specific font names... "AGBookBQ-Regular" and "AGBookBQ-Medium" as the bold font).
View 2 Replieswhy this code in my xml
Code:
<![CDATA[<font color="#00000"><b>action</b>. </font>]]>
Is not making the dynamic flash content bold?If I use <u></u> it underlines it, but bold doesnt seem to work!
Where's 'CS4' as a prefix to the post title? Anyway. I'm using _sans font for my flash work, because i want the font to display as the default _sans font on the device/platform. Why in CS4 (not checked earlier versions, but im sure CS3 didnt do this) is the (font) 'Style' drop down greyed out?
View 2 Replieslets say theres a dynamic textbox with the name 'txt1'
i typed the code:
txt1.bold = true;
but it doesnt work, the text is still not bold,
I am creating a website in flash and have made a button based on a text string (e.g a "Home" button) when user click this button I want to make the text "Home" in bold" so the user can se where he is on the page How can I do this in Actionscript 3 I have tried using the button method "home_btn.setStyle(..)" and a lot of other things but I can't seem to get it to work.
View 2 RepliesWhen creating mobile apps I thought the best practise was to use _sans font, so that the device uses its' native device font when the app runs (for dynamic text, anyhow...)? So, I use _sans font for my app. But why in CS3 could I make _sans font bold, but in CS4 I can't? Am I being stupid here....is there something obvious I'm missing? The 'style' box is greyed out in CS4.
View 1 RepliestextAB 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 have a .doc file. I want to load the text from that file into Flash. So I convert it into a .txt using a website like this one: [URL] I add in the little code at the beginning (myTextField=) and then Flash loads it fine. The only problem is any marked up text (italics, bold, underline) is lost. Is there any way to prevent this from happening? Or for Flash to load text from something other than a .txt? Or to manually reinsert html tags to the .txt and get Flash to understand them? Or something else I'm not considering?
My text field correctly displays the text in the "PrimaryText.txt" file. The first line of the text shows like this: <b>Testing this text</b> instead of just showing up bold. And the "Render text as HTML" is checked.
I have a shared fonts.swf file containing a variety of fonts that my main swf uses. I have a movieclip within the fonts.swf file which is exported for runtime sharing. In my main swf i have the fonts.swf imported for runtime via a movieclip. This all works fine and allows me to use the fonts within the fonts.swf file in my main swf. All of my text fields are dynamic and created/updated via AS. I use the following method to style my text boxes(additional code removed for succinctness, this is just so you can see the overall methodology)[code]...
View 3 RepliesI have a textfield that has a mouse click event, and when the user clicks on the text field, I would like to make the text bold, but the following code doesn't work:
ActionScript Code:
private function onTxtMouseClick(e:MouseEvent){
var el = sng.getChildByName(e.target.name); // The text field[code].........
I have a text field in Flash (CS4, using AS3), the font is set to Helvetica Neue, and it looks fine as a static text field, but looks bold when it is set to dynamic. What causes this? Is there anyway around this problem (other than setting the field to static)? Is there a way to control tracking with TextFormat in AS3? You can control leading with the object, but I can't seem to find a way to put more space between letters.
View 2 Repliesi place 3 dynamic text fields on the stage with embed fonts for regular, bold and Italic side from the font symbols you see I reference in my code.
Code: Select allvar arnoReg:Font = new ArnoReg();
var arnoBold:Font = new ArnoBold();
var arnoItalic:Font = new ArnoItalic();
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