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| Subject: | FLASH: Re: flasher-digest V1 #2749 |
| From: | Sahlan Sim�n Cherpitel |
| Date: | Thu, 30 Mar 2000 07:57:28 +0100 |
> From: owner
chinwag [dot] com (flasher-digest)> Reply-To: flasher
chinwag [dot] com> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:29:17 +0100
> To: flasher-digest
chinwag [dot] com> Subject: flasher-digest V1 #2749
>
> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:24:21 -0800
> From: "Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media" <mail
dartfrogmedia [dot] com>> Subject: Re: FLASH: Flash 4 Web Animation book ~ Correction on Fonts ?
>
> At 05:28 PM 3/28/00 , you wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> So how is it really works??? The shockwave player checks first for the fonts
>> on the system?? If it does have it-- than OK player use it.. if not it
>> renders(break appart) it?
>
> No. When Flash exports a movie, it saves the shape of each character just
> once, *IF* the character is left as text (that is, not broken apart). So
> it's very much as if the .swf contains the font set, only it contains it
> only for the characters that are actually used. A bold character has a
> different shape than regular, and so does an italic character, and so does
> a character in a different font, so each of these versions will have to be
> remembered, also. But only once each, as long as you don't break it apart.
> You can test it yourself. Make a movie with the letter "A" repeated 100
> times. Save and export it. Now take the same .fla and break all those A's
> apart. Export it. You will see the size is considerably larger. Instead of
> remembering the shape once and reusing it (much like any symbol), Flash now
> remembers each of the 100 shapes by itself (Flash has no way of knowing
> they're based on exactly the same shape).
>
> If you want to keep your Flash files small, one important method is to
> limit the number of fonts and weights of letters used in the movie, and
> then not to break apart any text unless you need to distort it in a way
> that requires breaking it apart.
>
> The only time Flash looks for fonts on a user's system is when rendering
> text fields or when the exported movie is manually set by the Flash
> developer to use system fonts rather than embedding the font shapes in the
> .fla.
>
> Marc Hoffman
>
> Poison Dart Frog Media
> Flash Animation and Digital Audio Production
> Featured in Flash 3 Web Animation, by Ken Milburn
> http://www.dartfrogmedia.com
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