Unfortunately, I'm already doing both of those. Since you're response didn't start of with "that's weird" I'm assuming this type of behavior is a known edge case and I shouldn't be looking for a bug somewhere. Does anyone else have any creative/outside the box solutions (a way to smooth font instructions to simplify a font, etc)?
- Daniel Freiman On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:42 AM, Alex Harui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trimming out characters you don't need is your only hope, or loading > the font "later" if you don't need it right away > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Daniel Freiman > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:47 PM > *To:* flexcoders > *Subject:* [flexcoders] Huge File Size w/ Embedded Font > > > > I have a a 300k true type font that I want to load into my app via a RSL. > When I do the embedding in Flash 8 or 9 to create the RSL, the movie size > jumps 1.2 megs. I think the reason for this is that it is a handwriting > font and the font characters are incredibly complicated (the "I" takes 280 > instructions to render). I've trimmed the included characters down as much > as I can. Does anyone else have any suggestions of how to get this size > down? Or is there an improvement on the instructions in the docs? Or are > there any Flash resources that may be better able to answer this question? > > - Daniel Freiman > > >
