Hi Josh, One thing you could try is to keep your special symbols in a seperate font and use HTML formatted text - I assume you are already using HTML text anyway if you include the fonts in different styles. So when you need to display your special symbol, you simply change the font in the HTML using the <font> tag.
I have used this method to embed mathematical and chemical symbols in an HTML textfield along with a more standard multi-style font. Save you some time and money? ;) Scott On 03/12/06, Josh Santangelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
One of my projects requires the use of some specific dingbat symbols in the middle of text. These symbols are custom artwork which I have in a vector format. I can't just put them in as <img> tags in an HTML text field, because you can't do inline images in HTML in Flash. The site uses one font, and three weights of it -- normal, bold, and italic. I asked a friend who is a type designer to insert these symbols into the fonts and export them back out as TTF files. Worked great, except for one weird quirk. With one of the fonts installed at a time, they work fine. With them all installed, they take on each other's characteristics somewhat randomly in Flash -- normal will be bold, bold will be italic, italic will be normal -- what they do seems to depend on the order in which they're installed or something. This is on Mac. So: I'd like to provide someone with the original fonts, the revised fonts, and the symbol artwork and get a set of fonts back which work correctly in the Flash 8 IDE on OS X. In exchange I can pay some fair amount of money or provide an equivalent favor of some kind. Anyone up for it? thanks, -josh _______________________________________________ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
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