Re: [flexcoders] Are there any good flash fonts that will work well in flex

[hank williams]

You can use flash 9 or flash 8, but you must create a swf that has the font from which you embed the font. Who knows why adobe requires the user of flash to do this but thems are the rules. When you do this you get the benefit of flashType as opposed to regular truetype rendering. I would imagine that the old flash IDE has some code in it for inserting font hinting that they didnt have the time or resources to port to flex. This is probably because flash is C++ and flex is Java, so porting code from flash to flex aint trivial.
HankOn 7/18/06, JesterXL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dirk, why do you need to use Flash 8 to do this?  Why can't you just embedVerdana, and set it to use advanced anti-aliasing via CSS?----- Original Message -----From: "Dirk Eismann" <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: <flexcoders@yahoogroups.com>Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 4:18 PMSubject: RE: [flexcoders] Are there any good flash fonts that will work well
in flexYou may want  to take a look at FlashType fonts. These can be used in Flex 2and display much better than normal fonts. The Flex 2 documentation has achapter on how to use FlashType.Dirk.
________________________________Von: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com im Auftrag von hank williamsGesendet: Di 18.07.2006 22:01An: 
flexcoders@yahoogroups.comBetreff: [flexcoders] Are there any good flash fonts that will work well inflexOne of the key things to defining an apps look and feel is fonts. But I findthat truetype fonts just dont come out looking as good as flex's built in
bitmap font. But I really dont want to look like every other application. Inflash I know there are companies that sell great fonts, but I am wonderingif anyone has anyone has any specific experience because working with some
of the fonts I am familiar with you had to be careful to, for example,always specify one font size.Anyway, any recomendations would be appreciated.Hank--Flexcoders Mailing List
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