Re: FLASH: The real deal with fonts in flash??

[BUSS0223]

> you have to break apart the font if you don't want the font replaced w/ an

 > alternative...  If you don't break it apart, the end user needs to have 

that

 > font installed in order to view it.

 >

 > -brody

 

 This isn't so. Flash exports the font outlines and makes them available no

 matter what fonts are on the end user's machine. It's one of the major

 advantages to using Flash, even in Flash 3 and everything. Breaking apart

 fonts makes your file bigger. If you're using text fields (the kind users

 can type information into) rather than just plain text, you need to

 specifically tell flash to export the outlines, but even then you don't need

 to break the text apart unless you want to distort it in some way (outline

 it, pulling on letters, whatever.) I don't understand where this idea came

 from...

 

 <very confused>

 Laura

  >>


Laura,

 i just experienced this the other day.  I was using a dingbat  that i forgot 

to breakapart.  when i checked it on another computer it was replaced by a 

text font.  Is it different for dinbats??  If your theory about flash tracing 

outlines of the fonts is true,  any type of font should be okay(even 

dinbats).. But that's not the case.  Anybody else know..  


-brody


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