I was given the .swf from a person who has the font on their system, so shouldn't one be able to 'extract' the fonts by name and use them into a project? If not, then - other than file size - what's the point of distributing fonts in a .swf?
I mean, we're putting them in an FLA and chosing specific glyphs *for export*, etc., so what's the point if they're not portable? I thought the Flex compiler needed more information or I was not referring to the instance names or something...so it just comes down to "you don't have the font?" If so...why even bother? ________________________________ From: Muzak <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2009 1:17:53 AM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] embedding swf fonts If I'm not mistaken, "(AkzidenzGroteskBE -MdIt)" means that you do not have the font installed (or Flash CS4 doesn't recognize it) and will be replaced with the default "_sans" font on your system when compiling the swf. So basically, the font is missing from the swf when you try to embed it in Flex. regards, Muzak ----- Original Message ----- From: <xelf...@rocketmail. com> To: <flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com> Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 7:10 AM Subject: [flexcoders] embedding swf fonts >I have been handed a .swf file called akzidenz.swf > I have tried to embed only to get the following error: > "Unable to transcode akzidenz.swf" > > After some quick research this apparently is common, and I thought this > article was interesting > (http://curiousminds media.wordpress. com/2009/ 06/04/embedding- irregular- > fonts-in- flex-3/), but it has yielded no solution. > > So far, my Style block is simple at the moment: > @font-face { > src: url('akzidenz. swf'); > font-family: "(AkzidenzGrotes kBE-Bold) _sans"; > } > > When I open the file in Flash CS4 the Character Families are: > (AkzidenzGroteskBE- MdIt) _sans > (AkzidenzGroteskBE- BoldIt) _sans > (AkzidenzGroteskBE- Bold) _sans > (AkzidenzGroteskBE- Md) _sans > > I've tried various ways of spelling, including/excluding parentheses and > "_sans", leaving font-weight out, yet I cannot shake the > transcoding issue. > > There seems to the agreement that font embedding blows in Flex, but there's > no consistent solution that I have found thus far. > > Any help? Any truly useful articles? Any one want to share the font family > for PC with me? ($295 bucks...ouch. ) > > Thanks!
