Re: FLASH: Embedding Fonts in FLASH

[John Croteau]

Hi Scott,


> >You must have misunderstood the manual. You can use whatever font you

> >like, without having to worry if the end user will have the same font

> >installed.

> Thanks for your response Nigel., but  let me see if I have this straight.

>  If I export a FLASH file which uses several custom fonts that would

> not be a default system font on a MAC or PC, the fonts will still

> render correctly when they playback the movie on thier machine

> regardless?

> If this is true, then I am  truely a happy man today.

Normal fonts are exported with their shapes see below.

Do NOT break text apart unless you are going to modify its shape or do a

shape tween with it.


> This is good but the following sentence seems to contradict what they

> just said;

>        "...your audience must have the type's font installed for it

> to display properly, even on the same platform. "

This is a mistake and very misleading. It was meant to apply to text in

text fields only.


Here is the correct run down on text:


1) 3 new system devicefont designations (_sans, _serif or _typewriter)

that are normally used in text fields. When one of these fonts are

selected flash will use a font similar to that font on the user's

computer. Normally if you are not going to select 'Include all font

outlines' you should use one of these font selections for your text that

is used in text fields.


2) Text in text fields can be used as regular Flash text with its shapes

exported, if your select 'Include all font outlines'.


3) All regular text (except _sans, _serif, _typewriter) will be exported

with shapes.



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