Thanks to some excellent support from Adobe on this one we have been able to work through this issue for now. For details on this problem, refer to the bug: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-13352
Thanks Adobe!!! --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Matt Chotin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > AFEFontManager uses the Adobe Font Engine which is our Java library for > working with fonts. The Managers are what the compiler uses to embed > fonts. We believe the AFEFontManager is a better implementation than > Batik and handles more than JRE. For example, this is the engine we > need to support OpenType font embedding. It was introduced as part of > Flex 3. So I would recommend trying to use AFEFontManager over the > others. We've even considered removing the Batik version but decided to > leave it in just in case. > > > > Matt > > > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of toofah_gm > Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2:05 PM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoders] AFEFontManager > > > > I logged the following bug about fonts rendering incorrectly: > http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-13352 > > I got this response: > "This problem only happens with BatikFontManager. The fonts show up > correctly for both JREFontManager and AFEFontManager." > > I have tried Googling "AFEFontManager" as well as just trying to use > it on my commandline, but have not had success. I have successfully > used JREFontManager and it seems to fix the problem, but at what > expense? > > Can anyone tell me more about this AFEFontManager and about > FontManagers in general? > > I have a book building and rendering application and am very nervous > about switching the FontManager that is being used. We need 100% > consistency between what the customer sees when they click to order > the book and what they see in the finished product. > > If I switch FontManagers to fix the problems seen in European > characters with BatikFontManager will I find other problems that I > can't live with in the JREFontManager? And what is this > AFEFontManager and how does it compare. > > Thanks for listening. > > Gary >
