Nah, I'm on Windows 7. I've seen the mess with 10.6.7 - glad I'm not on a
Mac now!


On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Andrew Sinning <and...@learningware.com>wrote:

> Are you on a Mac?  Apple did an update about 10 days ago that broke
> embedded fonts.
>
> If this is the cause of your woes, you'll need to roll back to 10.6.6,
> which is huge PITA.
>
> To roll back you need to first re-install the version of 10.6.x
> shipped with your machine, and then install the 10.6.6 update.
>
> See:  http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/896/cpsid_89637.html
>
> One other thing to note:  If you use AS to overwrite the text in a TF,
> you have to use something like the following or you will lose Bold and
> Italics:
>
>        tf.setNewTextFormat(tf.getTextFormat());
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Matt Perkins <nudoru.m...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I'm using Myriad Pro for regular (non TLF) dynamic text fields in my
> project
> > and it's working fine. Now the client wants to use "Myriad Pro Condensed
> > Bold" for titles and I cannot get it to show up. I can't get just "Myriad
> > Pro Condensed" to show either. I don't have any problems with "Myriad
> Pro" -
> > I think the "condensed" variant/style is causing issues. I've checked
> over
> > and over that I have it embedded properly.
> >
> > Looks like "Condensed Bold" is treated as a style like "bold" but there's
> no
> > way to set a style on a text format object.
> >
> > I even tried setting the font style via html in the text content:
> > textfild.htmlText = "<font face='Myriad Pro
> Condensed'>"+mytext+"</font>";
> > Didn't work.
> >
> > Any tips for using font variants like this? I'd rather keep doing it
> > dynamically like this and not have to create a textfield symbol in the
> > library to use (which would work). Also, this is an AS3/CS5 project.
> >
> > The TLF TextLayoutFormat has a font style property, but not sure if it
> would
> > work - but the last time I tried to use TLF my FLA wouldn't compile
> because
> > of some error with my assets SWC and the TLF SWC. So I'd rather not go
> > there.
> >
> > Maybe I can fake it by tweaking the scaleX property.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Matt
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