Yes, it does seem to be broken. I think I'll just add font tags around text
if there are none present.
Thansk for the help.
On 6/12/07, Danny Kodicek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I have a loop that creates pages, creates textfields then
> adds text. Some of this text has font tags and some doesn't.
> I want to use a default textFormat so that an embedded font
> is used when no <font is specified in the text:
>
> currentPage.createTextField("my_txt", 1, 5, 5,
> currentPage._width - 10, currentPage._height - 10);
> currentPage.my_txt.autoSize = false;
> currentPage.my_txt.multiline = true;
> currentPage.my_txt.wordWrap = true;
> currentPage.my_txt.selectable = false;
> currentPage.my_txt.embedFonts = true;
> currentPage.my_txt.html = true;
>
> var my_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
> my_fmt.font = "Arial";
> currentPage.my_txt.setNewTextFormat (my_fmt);
>
> currentPage.my_txt.htmlText = this.Model.pages[i].text;
>
> This works fine for text that has Arial specified in a font
> tag but for all the other pages which are just text no text
> appears (when tracing I see that Times is used which is not embedded).
>
> Why isn't this working? The setNewTextformat should change
> the default textformat for the field from then on? I am still
> getting Times though.
setNewTextFormat is, in my opinion, broken: it works for text entered by a
user but not for text entered through ActionScript. You need to run
setTextFormat manually after changing it.
Danny
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