Thanks for feedback. I just red some stuff about Embed font support on http://www.bytearray.org/?p=4789 and http://labsdownload.adobe.com/pub/labs/flashplatformruntimes/air3-4/air3-4_p2_sdk_asc2_releasenotes.pdf. Isn't this exactly what we are talking here about?
cyrill On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Gordon Smith <gosm...@adobe.com> wrote: > For Apache Flex, you should require or download fontswf as a prerequisite > and use it to turn the font files used by the Mustella tests into SWF > files. Then the Mustella tests should embed the fonts from the SWF files. > > - Gordon > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 1:01 PM > To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: [FALCON] Fonts Question > > Ugh, I knew I was forgetting something. There is no embedded font support > for Falcon. I'm not even sure fontswf will work. Gordon may know more. > > I was going to look into copying code from MXMLC to do some of the font > embedding, but either way I think we do need to remove any dependencies on > Adobe (fontswf is also Adobe licensed) and write our own transcoder. I'm > told it is straightforward for CFF fonts, but it might be more work for the > older fonts. > > That said, looking forward at Flex on JS, is there font embedding in > HTML/CSS? > > > On 11/12/12 1:39 AM, "Cyrill Zadra" <cyrill.za...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Recognized that the mustella test swf compiled with falcon use > > different font then the ones compiled with the legacy compiler. That > > tends to quite a lot of test failures so I started to investigate and > > found following statement in the wiki: > > > >> Falcon includes transcoders for the various types of embedded assets, > > which read, for example, a PNG file and convert it to the form > > required inside a SWF. It does NOT support font trancoding, because > > this relies on proprietary Adobe technology which Adobe has not donated > to Apache. > > Instead, you must use a separate fontswf tool to convert your font > > files to SWF files and then embed the fonts from them. > > > > Does that mean we have to generate all the ttf fonts to swf fonts in > > mustella? > > > > And in the falcon compiler code I've found the follwoing method in > > Class org.apache.flex.compiler.config.Configuration: > > > > @Config(advanced = true) > > @Mapping({"compiler", "fonts", "managers"}) > > @Arguments("manager-class") > > @InfiniteArguments > > @FlexOnly > > public void setCompilerFontsManagers(ConfigurationValue cv, > > List<String> list) > > { > > // intentionally do nothing here as feature removed, but don't > > annotate as removed > > // as to not generate warnings for flex-config's which still > > set this options > > } > > > > Is the -compiler.fonts.managers argument just not implemented yet in > > falcon or does this argument make no sense in the falcon compiler? > > > > cyrill > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe Systems, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > >
