> Out of curiosity, why *can't* Flash do things like rotate text unless the > corresponding font is embedded? > Couldn't it just embed the necessary glyphs from the local font on an > as-needed basis?
For one thing, you don't generally know at compile time (i.e., when the SWF is being created) what text you're going to render at runtime (i.e., when the SWF is being executed). The data to display often comes from outside, or gets calculated in some way. And even if all the text was set explicitly in MXML or AS, the compiler doesn't understand what those assignment statements are actually doing, as opposed to c = a + b. For another thing, I think with device fonts the Player doesn't just grab glyphs and render them... I think it uses the OS to render them. So if the OS doesn't have rotation APIs, it can't rotate them. Gordon Smith Adobe Flex SDK Team From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Guy Morton Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 3:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] using system fonts in Flex Yes, the original post didn't state why he thought embedding was required, so you may be right and the requirement may have been to do something you can only do with an embedded font. In which case, neither of us has provided a useful answer, other that "yes you need to embed the font in a swf file"... :-) Out of curiosity, why *can't* Flash do things like rotate text unless the corresponding font is embedded? Couldn't it just embed the necessary glyphs from the local font on an as-needed basis? Guy On 09/12/2009, at 10:16 AM, Alex Harui wrote: It will if he wants to use device fonts. I just assumed he wanted to use embedded fonts for various rendering effects. Alex Harui Flex SDK Developer Adobe Systems Inc.<http://www.adobe.com/> Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui From: [email protected] [mailto:flexcod...@yahoog! roups.com] On Behalf Of Guy Morton Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 2:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] using system fonts in Flex Are you sure it won't pick up locally available fonts? I'm fairly sure it will. If you use CSS to define the font to use you can specify a list of fonts to degrade to, so if ! your preferred font is unavailable the next one on the list wi! ll be us ed. Have you tried that? Guy On 09/12/2009, at 7:12 AM, Glenn Jones wrote: AFAIK, any fonts used in Flex ha! ve to be compiled into the SWF. Is there some way to use system fonts that are already installed on a customer machine? Specifically, I'd like to build an app that uses Microsoft's new Segoi UI font (included with Vista and Office 2007) without compiling a TTF into my SWF. Thanks, Glenn
