RE: FLASH: FONTS

[Paul Willoughby]

I think I might have given some dodgy advice on fonts before, so please pull

me up on anything I get wrong listers:


1. Yes, fonts in regular text boxes are exported with the movie. With fonts

in text fields you have to specify in the text field properties whether to

include the whole font ('include all font outlines' which includes every

character. bit excessive e.g. including all font outlines for Arial will add

approx. 20k to your movie, or just part of it ('include specified font

outlines'. more compact, if you include all the uppercase/lowercase/numbers

and punctuation for Arial it adds about 6k to a movie)


2. I'm not sure, but i don't think grouping fonts is the equivalent of

breaking them apart.  Breaking apart text is useful for morphing animations,

modifying letter shapes, filling text with gradients and stuff like that.


hth


Paul



>>Andrei wrote:


1* if I use a not very common font that users might not have , will they

still

see the movie with the right fonts?  ...I see that in the report (.txt file)

flash says something about sizes of fonts so the fonts should be included in

the

swf,right ?


2* what's the difference between breaking apart the font object and

publishing

the .swf with the fonts as groups ?




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