Thanks Glen,
I made the move to mac a few months ago and alas I cannot use Flash
Develop anymore as it was definitely my preferred choice as editor.
However the mac system has proved to be much better for my development
now than the pc ever was so not really grumbling.
Anyhow after a very annoying day I have found the solution that I was
looking for. Although it requires flex and flash in order to create
the solution. Flex to require the font library and then flash to load
the library into. I must admit it is quite a sweet solution however I
didn't really find any good documentation on it anywhere which is a
shame. The key aspect was to limit the libraries to the glyphs
required and to load at runtime depending on which language was
required. Thanks for the point into the right direction. I might blog
it if I ever get my blog up and running...
Thanks or the help guys.
Cheers
M
On 18 Aug 2008, at 15:29, Glen Pike wrote:
Hi,
You can do the AS3 Embed test with FlashDevelop = £0, so download
the FlexSDK, install it, then FD, then maybe try the example on
ScottMorgan's blog -
You should be able to create a simple FD project (AS3 "default")
paste in the code for the font from the blog, and click the build /
run button to compile.
One thing to note with embedding is the path to the font, you may
want to copy a version into a directory in the project folder rather
than rely on the System or file based "C:\.." fonts as I sometimes
had problems with the compiler and this mde them go away.
http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/flexdownloads/#sdk
http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/viewforum.php?f=11&sid=1ef39000400abfd888216f8b507a9901
<http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/viewforum.php?f=11&sid=1ef39000400abfd888216f8b507a9901
> FD releases
If you like FD and want to do a lot of compiling with it, I
recommend getting the flex compiler shell "fcsh" installed too.
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Compiler_Shell
Flash Develop is really nice too if you do a lot of coding for AS3.
For what you want to do, you should not have a huge hassle making it
work it either, the learning can come later when you have some
breathing space.
Glen
Michael William Ypes wrote:
I was thinking of this route but my flex 3 trial has run out. I am
assuming then that I can load that into a normal flash application
and get it via the class name as per normal.
Has anyone got an example font file (made from flex) that I can
test it with. If not I shall have to go and purchase flex.
On 18 Aug 2008, at 13:37, Glen Pike wrote:
Hi,
You should still be able to load a separarte SWF with a font
embedded then use this on the stage:
http://www.scottgmorgan.com/blog/index.php/2007/06/18/runtime-font-embedding-in-as3-there-is-no-need-to-embed-the-entire-fontset-anymore/
A workaround for the "[Embed] does not work in Flash" issue is to
use another program, like Flash Develop if you ain't got Flex, to
create your font based SWF, then load this from your Flash built
application.
HTH
Glen
Michael William Ypes wrote:
I know the offstage technique but what I want is to load an
external swf with the specific font in it. Then use that font in
all other swfs. You could do this in as2 by loading in a swf that
had a shared library font in it. Bit of a hack but it worked.
I cant quite believe Adobe has not addressed this in cs3 as fonts
do add a huge amount to file sizes. There has got to be a fix for
this surely...
Any more ideas...
Cheers
M
On 18 Aug 2008, at 12:08, Ian Thomas wrote:
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Geografiek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
Define 2 dynamic text field off stage (one for each font) and
define the
character range there.
These characters should now be available to all text fields in
the .swf
*Should* work, but with Flash and font you never know :(
Offstage will do it.
So will exporting in a text field within a MovieClip symbol in the
library, providing that MovieClip symbol is marked for export in
first
frame.
HTH,
Ian
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