hey glen i'm not using helvetica, it's actually a custom cut of bryant with no italic variant. I just didn't know if there was a way i could make it faux italic (like the designer has in photoshop - sigh) with css / actionscript
a On 26 March 2010 12:42, Glen Pike <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > You probably have to embed the italic font file - I don't have Helvetica, > but in my windows font's folder there is an italic version of my Arial font > called ARIALI.TTF > > Glen > > > allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) wrote: > >> hey guys >> >> does anyone know if there is a way of using faux fontstyle (italic for me) >> using a font that has been [Embed]'ed. >> >> my DynamicFonts class uses the setup suggested by colin moock - i've tried >> embedding the font with fontStyle = "italic" but as that isn't part of the >> font, it errors out. >> >> am i going to have to add a custom property into the css and then do some >> sprite skewing to get what i need or is there a way of adding a faux >> italic >> into the copy (like there is in the IDE)? >> >> hope you can help >> >> thanks >> a >> >> >> class fyi - this is compiled with the flex compiler and then loaded in to >> the main class with a Loader object and as soon as it INITs, it adds all >> of >> it's fonts to the available fontlist so it avoids all of the getDefinition >> craziness: >> >> >> package >> { >> import flash.display.Sprite; >> import flash.text.Font; >> public class DynamicFonts extends Sprite { >> [Embed(source = "../fonts/HelveticaNeueLTStd-Roman.otf", fontName = >> "HelveticaNeueLT Std", mimeType = "application/x-font", >> unicodeRange="U+0020-U+002F, U+0030-U+0039, U+003A-U+0040, U+0041-U+005A, >> U+005B-U+0060, U+0061-U+007A, U+007B-U+007E")] private var _HelveticaRoman >> : >> Class; >> >> public function DynamicFonts() { >> Font.registerFont(_HelveticaRoman); var ar:Array = Font.enumerateFonts(); >> for (var i:int = 0; i < ar.length; i++) trace("font:" + ar[i]); } >> } >> } >> _______________________________________________ >> Flashcoders mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders >> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
