Hi guys, some few clarifications are needed IMO here, to cleal up the sceen.
First, a simple googling about Akzidenz-Grotesk BE: "Download Akzidenz-Grotesk BE Volume, provided on Fonts.com from Berthold. Akzidenz-Grotesk BE Volume is available in OpenType, PostScript for Windows, ..." . So dear Muzak, Akzidenz-Grotesk doesn't mean ".. "(AkzidenzGroteskBE -MdIt)" means that you do not have the font installed ..", but is another font (AkzidenzGroteskBE -MdIt = medium italic) from the font foundry of Berthold!! Second, as written: "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?". This action constitutes direct violation of copyrights for whatever this means to anyone these days! And then: "If not, then - other than file size - what's the point of distributing fonts in a .swf?". This statement is wrong! You don't use SWF files to distribute fonts (?). Rather you embed fonts in the SWF for a number of different reasons, like rotating text for one...! Hope this information is somehow usefull. Thanks George --- In [email protected], Big Lebowski <xelf...@...> wrote: > > 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 <p.ginnebe...@...> > 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! >
