Hi,
I re-read your email again and noticed you want runtime font rather
than embedded in your final application...
The Troyworks article talks about embedding fonts into a separate
SWF, then loading these into your main SWF at runtime...
I guess you are using Flex to create pure ActionScript projects, so
for the Troy Works sample, you would need to create 2 ActionScript
projects - one for compiling the "FontLibs.swf" example - you probably
want to rename the output to a sensible font name - like
MyriadProFontLib.swf - then your second project is your main application
/ the second block of code, which needs to load the swf from the first.
You should not need any MXML to get it to compile - just adapt the code
for your normal way of developing here.
If you are on a PC, it is worth checking out FlashDevelop because
it's really nice for coding and set up to produce projects like this.
It lets you do MXML or ActionScript based projects - Flex Builder just
gives you the WYSIWYG editor (plus a few more things like profiling,
etc). Either way, both Flex Builder and FlashDevelop use mxmlc - the
compiler - to output your SWF and this is what lets you do the [Embed],
unlike the Flash IDE which did not allow Embed.
There are quite a few articles on Runtime Font embedding and
managers with Flash - it seems to be a bit of a black art to get
everything running smoothly and I am only part way there. Look on the
Devnet site and in the Flex doc's online - there are some useful
examples there.
Sorry if I caused any confusion here..
Glen
Glen Pike wrote:
Hi,
You can use the [Embed] Directive in a few places in Flex.
Inside your MXML code - create a new project - then you can add
normal actionscript by inserting
<mx:Script> tags - start typing "Scr..." and Flex Builder will try
to auto-complete.
Between your Script tags is ActionScript - same way as you would
write it anywhere else.
You can also create ActionScript only components as part of your
project and write your code as AS.
You can also embed your fonts in style sheets, which just contain
fancy CSS declarations. I have an example at home, so will post it
this evening if you don't get sorted - in about 3hours from now.
Keith Peters also wrote an article about Embed on his blog - a while
back so you might have to search for it
Glen
Mike Grunwald wrote:
I've been searching for the best way to handle fonts when localizing
Flash applications. Ideally I'm looking for a way that I can create
SWFs that have specific character ranges of specific fonts embedded
in them that I can load in to my applications as needed based on the
language that has been selected by the user.
I've come across many posts of people describing this approach, most
notably:
http://troyworks.com/blog/2008/09/12/flash-runtime-font-sharing-embedding-with-only-partial-character-sets-how-to/
The problem for me is I don't know Flex at all. I have Flex Builder 3
and use it almost everyday as my primary AS3 editor, but I don't know
the first thing about MXML or even creating Flex projects. The
previous post above describes this technique using FlashDevelop and
the Flex SDK. Since I have Flex builder I'm just looking for a little
guidance as to how to get similar code to compile a SWF in Flex Builder.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Or if any or you have any
better methods of how to handle this that you would like to pass on,
I'm totally open to suggestion.
Thank in advance,
_mike
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