No need to outline in Illustrator. In Flash, select the text, go to Modify/Break Apart. Do this twice, and you will have outline of text.
On Jun 27, 2012, at 4:42 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: > Looking at your swf, my suggestion would be to take the copy that is not > input fields and turn them to outlines in Illustrator then put them back in > the layout. > Flash handles vector really well. Not much size increase for mathematical > equations. Then only embed the necessary glyphs for the input files. > > Best, > Karl > > On Jun 27, 2012, at 3:16 PM, Kevin Newman wrote: > >> Every static glyph for every font face and weight/style is also embedded. >> The only way to really reduce the size of those fonts is to embed fewer >> glyphs. One strategy might be to consolidate the number of fonts you are >> using. >> >> If you are using 4 typefaces, try to reduce it to 3 or even 2. That'll >> probably have the biggest reduction. >> >> I've never really tried it, but you could try editing the font names so that >> they are shorter in the font embed screen, then make sure all your text >> fields are set to those new embedded names (such as a, b, c and d). I'm not >> sure how much space that would save, but it might get you a few bytes. >> >> And maybe it's obvous, but make sure you aren't including XMP metadata or >> debug symbols (uncheck both boxes in the publish settings) - that's a couple >> of KB. >> >> Kevin N. >> >> >> On 6/26/2012 4:59 PM, Tristan wrote: >>> I did not embed any fonts but the numerals and period for the input box. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Flashcoders mailing list >> Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com >> http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > Karl DeSaulniers > Design Drumm > http://designdrumm.com > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders DON TALCOTT 316 Greenwood Avenue Decatur, Georgia 30030 404.538.1642 dtalc...@mindspring.com _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
