Danny,
Instead of using a Font symbol as the symbol to export for runtime sharing, use
a MovieClip symbol containing a TextField that embeds the Unicode ranges of the
font you wish to share.
Your bigger problem with Arabic is the lack of bidirectional text support in
Flash. Also, in my experience trying to use an embedded font for Arabic, the
FlashPlayer fails to connect the letters.
You may want to check out these presentation notes:
http://www.flashextensions.com/lecture.php
Good luck,
Michael
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Williamson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 4:47 PM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Shared fonts, linkage and Arabic
Hey Danny,
I'm having problems with this as well. It should be so simple but I
have not yet found a solution.
If you're on a PC (as I am) this link has some helpful info and a
proposed solution for this exact problem but:
http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000211.php
Unfortuantly the solution proposed (creating font substitute entries
in the registry that reference your target language codepage ID)
dosen't work for me:
After I create the font substitues I can access them from Flash's font
menue but after setting my font symbol to use them I still only get
Roman characters.
Adobe also has some promising sounding advice about changing the
codepage for the system here:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_16275
Put the procedure outlined doesn't work either. Although it partially
worked with one specific font and language pair (thai). But that was
one out of twenty or so combos and it only worked temporarily
Another thing I noticed: If one of my font symbols (with linkage
turned on) uses the same font as is embedded in a text field, all
non-Roman charaters stop getting exported.
For example: text field 1 has the font Tahoma set to Korean characters
embedded. I export, it works fine. Now, I set one of my font symbols
(with linkage turned on) to use Tahoma. I export, no non-Roman
characters get exported.
Damn!
If you discover any potential solutions please let me know!
-Mike
Danny Kodicek wrote:
>
> I can't believe I'm still having problems with this.
>
> I need to get a shared font symbol to include Arabic characters (and indeed
> any characters). So I've got my shared library called sharedFontLib. In it,
> I've created a font symbol called sharedFont. Now, if I leave linkage off,
> this font works perfectly: I can include an input field in sharedFontLib
> using the font, and type in any characters I like. But if I turn linkage on
> for the font, all non-Roman characters stop working (this is with Embed ->
> all on the input field). The same is true in other movies using the same
> font.
>
> Come on folks - someone there must have got shared fonts working with
> non-Roman characters!
>
> Danny
>
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