Thanks Glen! That did it! I was named "Myriad Pro Cond"

This is the little snip of Actionscript that I used:
http://snipplr.com/view/15835/list-registered-font-files/

And, Jason, it is an OTF font.

Matt


On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Glen Pike <[email protected]>wrote:

> Have you tried "enumerating" your embedded fonts to see what name Flash
> gives it?
>
> If you embed just your Myriad Pro Condensed into a document and add the
> actionscript to list out the font name, etc.
>
>
> http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=as3+enumerate+font
>
> You might find the system gives it a different name?
>
> Glen
>
>
> On 11/04/2011 19:24, Matt Perkins wrote:
>
>> I'm using Myriad Pro for regular (non TLF) dynamic text fields in my
>> project
>> and it's working fine. Now the client wants to use "Myriad Pro Condensed
>> Bold" for titles and I cannot get it to show up. I can't get just "Myriad
>> Pro Condensed" to show either. I don't have any problems with "Myriad Pro"
>> -
>> I think the "condensed" variant/style is causing issues. I've checked over
>> and over that I have it embedded properly.
>>
>> Looks like "Condensed Bold" is treated as a style like "bold" but there's
>> no
>> way to set a style on a text format object.
>>
>> I even tried setting the font style via html in the text content:
>> textfild.htmlText = "<font face='Myriad Pro Condensed'>"+mytext+"</font>";
>> Didn't work.
>>
>> Any tips for using font variants like this? I'd rather keep doing it
>> dynamically like this and not have to create a textfield symbol in the
>> library to use (which would work). Also, this is an AS3/CS5 project.
>>
>> The TLF TextLayoutFormat has a font style property, but not sure if it
>> would
>> work - but the last time I tried to use TLF my FLA wouldn't compile
>> because
>> of some error with my assets SWC and the TLF SWC. So I'd rather not go
>> there.
>>
>> Maybe I can fake it by tweaking the scaleX property.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Matt
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