Are you using Flex and are you relying on MXMLC to do the embedding? Or
are you using Flash to first to do the embedding?

If it's Flex, what version of Flex and how are you embedding them? Are
you using a CSS @font-face rule? Are you using local() or url() as the
source of the font definition? Can you show me the font-manager section
of your flex-config.xml file?

Pete 

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Jon Bradley
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 8:33 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [flexcoders] Issues with Dynamic vs. Embedded Font Leading

This might've been brought up before, but I can't find reference to it.

I'm working on an application that is rendering text fields (multiline,
print resolution) on the client end that will be rendered on the server,
currently using GDI+ (but other options are open).

Photoshop, InDesign and Quark are my baselines. They all handle and deal
with font leading identically for all fonts that I've tested, barring
any slight shifts due to antialiasing.

Flash on the other hand.... yikes. By using some simple trickery, font
leading on device fonts can mimic identically, to the pixel almost, any
leading in the above 3 stated applications.

Embedded fonts, on the other hand, incorrectly render leading, always. I
say incorrectly because it's not how any other desktop print application
does it, so far as I can tell. Maybe it's an issue with the way saffron
was designed .. how is Flash calculating this?

Flash is definitely not rendering line spacing/leading correctly, but I
cannot figure out what it is doing to calculate this. If I can get that
taken care of, I have the rest of the situation solved (tracking,
margins, etc.), matching photoshop as my baseline.

Anyone in the know about this?

thanks in advance,

- jon


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