Re: FLASH: Flash 5 - poor font handling

[Chris Urban]

Stephen,


Unlike Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, etc. that do, Flash is (unfortunately)

unable to recognize fonts that you've opened with Suitcase _after_ you've

booted up Flash itself. The only work around is to quit Flash and restart it

once you've opened the necessary fonts. I only wish there were a Suitcase

extension for Flash (� la Quark)  that would open fonts on the fly...

Upgrading to Suitcase 9 will not solve this either.


Hth,


Chris

curbantetrasc [dot] com

> Using my Mac and Flash 5 I find the only fonts that are offered with their

> postscript outlines are the ones in my system folder. I use Suitcase 8.2 and

> have no problems in other programs. So If I want to use one of my fonts that

> are loaded but not in the system fold I have to open Illustrator 9 and then

> after creating an outline (break apart), bring them into Flash. Freehand 8

> also seems to fail on opening Postscript fonts.

>

> It's disappointing that Illustrator can recognize the fonts but flash fails.

>

> This does not seem right. Does anyone have any tips on getting flash to

> recognize all the available fonts?



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