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

[Jefferis]

Laura Mollett


>4) You can make your Flash file smaller by *not* exporting fonts, but using

>fonts available on the user's machine. If you use a lot of text, you might

>want to do this. You would put your text in a text field. Flash then doesn't

>need to export the font outlines and it saves (relative amounts) of space.

>For normal text, Flash only exports the outlines of the specific characters

>you are using.



I tried this... it becomes a major problem to use device fonts.   If you 

have any characters that aren't standard from Mac to Win, then you get �� 

s instead of ...  for ellipse  etc...


It's like having bad email.


Jeff




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