If you are not changing the text members at runtime, then you can pre-render the text members using 'Other Ink' and check 'Save Bitmap' in the member properties. This will save the rendered bitmaps of the text in the .dir It will increase the file size a little but means that the members don't need to be rendered as the file opens and will appear exactly as they were saved - unless you make a change to one, in which case it will need to be re-rendered.
There is also an issue with Win2000 and embedded fonts on systems where the user only has Restricted access rights - Director attempts to write the temp fonts to the System32 folder but the user does not have access, so the embedded fonts are not loaded & defaults are used. Also - if you are embedding the font, make sure the text members are using 'Arial *' & 'Georgia *' (the embedded ones) not 'Arial' and 'Georgia' (the system ones) hope this helps johnAq on 13/6/02 4:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Font problem > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Using Arial font on mac & moving that to Windows sucks - > The win baseline doesn't match & the size seems off too. > > I seem to remember that you don't actually get Arial on Win > > Adding Arial to Arial to your fontmap.txt may help > > Alternatively, using Times (on mac) should map to Times Roman (win) & > look pretty ok. > > -Buzz > > At 7:24 PM +1200 6/12/02, you wrote: >> Hi! >> I'm working on a project that require lots of text, I'm using Arial, >> Georgia fonts. I'm working on a Macintosh G4 but the project should >> be cross platform. >> On the mac everything looks right, I mean the fonts are looking fine >> but when I tried to see the movies on a PC (running window 2000 >> professional) everything looks a mess. All strange characters are >> showing like white squares and others weird ones. Also the text is >> not placed in the same spot as well, I mean sometimes it goes on top >> of other text, sometimes it shrink, etc. >> I'm using Director 8.5 and this problem I thought was ended with >> Director 7. All the project that I have done previously with version >> 7 were fine, Director were doing a bitmap of all the text >> castmembers when I was updating the movies and the only concern was >> with field castmembers but using a similar font for PC and Mac was >> easy to solve the problem. >> Now I don't know what to do, I tried to embed the Arial font but the >> result is very ugly, I mean the fonts are not showing well. >> >> Do I missing something?? Does anyone know how to solve this problem?? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
