I hope that I don't insult your intelligence by referring you to a
TechNote.
But, by following the steps as shown at
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14786 I was
able
to use a shared font successfully in Flash 8. It sounds as if you may be
taking some unnecessary steps: for example, you shouldn't need to include
any text fields in your sharedfonts.fla. Also, make sure that you follow
the method of "Open As Library" as described in the TechNote. (In Flash
8,
this is File > Import > Open External Library). Setting the library font
to
a different font may in fact be causing a problem - I would suggest
instead
testing with wingdings or some other crazy font so you can know for sure
it's working.
Okay, this works, thanks for that. But it makes no sense to me. The two
files are both about 20k, so they can't contain the font outlines. So in
what sense is this font embedded? As far as I can see, what this is doing is
linking to a font named Arial, but someone without Arial on their system
won't see it. (it does have the advantage that if I want to globally change
the font, I just do it in one place, but that's all). So how can I embed the
actual font outlines in the way I do for a local font?
Oh - and incidentally why the hell do I have to select 'export for
actionScript' instead of 'export for runtime sharing'?!
Danny
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