Hi again, Thanks Muzak for clarifying this. I was talking metaphorically, as AkzidenzGrotesk could be interpreted as "Bizzare accident", if you excuse me the pun :) Of course the notation means exactly what you say..!
As to the original post, I still miss the point on what the original poster has in mind. When one has to recompile an SWF? (And I still believe that SWFs are not for "distributing" fonts :). Thanks George --- In [email protected], "Muzak" <p.ginnebe...@...> wrote: > > > 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!! > > I know what it means :) I was referring to the fact that the font is > surrounded by parentheses. > When a font in Flash (the IDE) shows up surrounded by parentheses, it means > it's missing: > > "Arial" vs "(Arial)" > > So if it shows up as: "(AkzidenzGroteskBE- MdIt) _sans" in the properties > panel it means the font "AkzidenzGroteskBE- MdIt" is > missing and the systems default "_sans" font is used instead. > > > 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?" > > Yup, if you got the swf from someone who does have the font, you should be > able to use it, but you can't (re)compile the fla on your > system (without the font installed). > Ask the person that compiled the swf for the exact font names as they appear > in the properties panel in Flash. > Those are the names you should be using in Flex to use them. > > regards, > Muzak > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "grg_blls" <grg_b...@...> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 7:10 PM > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: embedding swf fonts > > > > 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 >
