Rick, you might be able to still embed fonts without experiencing such a
dramatic performance problem. Try embedding the fonts but disabling
FlashType (it's enabled by default):
@font-face {
src: url("/assets/fonts/ARIAL.TTF");
fontFamily: myArial;
flashType: false;
}
hth,
matt horn
flex docs
http://blogs.adobe.com/flexdoc/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Schmitty
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 12:10 PM
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Builder 2.0.1 the update !
>
> Do you have embeded fonts in your application?
>
> I was experiencing the same slowdown after upgrading to flex
> 2.0.1. I had 2.0 installed, updated to 2.0.1, then ran the
> clean command prior to opening flex. It was still slow.
>
> Saw the blog about closing projects, closed everything but
> the one I'm working on, still slow
>
> Deleted all projects and created a blank application, super fast.
> Ok... so must be something in my project... started hacking
> away at the files until I came down to the fonts.
>
> This took almost 20seconds (on my machine) to compile
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml
> <http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml> ">
>
> <mx:Style>
> @font-face {
> src: url("/assets/fonts/ARIAL.TTF");
> fontFamily: myArial;
> }
> @font-face {
> src: url("/assets/fonts/BKANT.TTF");
> fontFamily: myBkant;
> }
> @font-face {
> src: url("/assets/fonts/TAHOMA.TTF");
> fontFamily: myTahoma;
> }
> @font-face {
> src: url("/assets/fonts/TIMES.TTF");
> fontFamily: myTimes;
> }
> @font-face {
> src: url("/assets/fonts/TREBUC.TTF");
> fontFamily: myTrebuc;
> }
> </mx:Style>
>
> </mx:Application>
>
> Deleting the style tag for a blank appliaction, it compiled
> immediately 1-1.5sec
>
> Here is what's going on (or so I think)
>
> "FlashType support
>
> FlashType is the text rendering engine introduced in Flash Player 8.
> It improves the readability of text, especially at smaller font sizes.
> To leverage the FlashType engine in Flex 2, you had to create
> a SWF that embedded a particular font using the Flash
> authoring tool, and then embed that SWF file in your Flex
> application. With Flex 2.0.1, the mxmlc compiler can now
> embed a font using the FlashType engine directly, eliminating
> a step for many developers."
>
> So I'm back to running fast as long as I dont embed fonts via
> css, I'll reenable it when I need to publish a working
> version (or look into creating the SWF file on my own and not use CSS)
>
> On 1/16/07, Tom Chiverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:tom.chiverton%40halliwells.com> > wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 January 2007 08:19, pauscato1 wrote:
> > > I have only one project running in my flex builder, this is realy
> > > anoing it uses 20% of my day.
> >
> > Have you got auto-compilation turned off ?
> >
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