[Flashcoders] How to Embed Fonts for CSS Usage
I am having trouble getting Flash to embed a font that is designated by CSS. In Flash: - I create a textfield, create a loadVars and a StyleSheet, load the CSS into the StyleSheet, and designate the style sheet as the style for the text field. I then load text into the textfield (currently using hard-coded AS, but eventually it will be xml). - I also create dummy text fields to embed the fonts in Flash that the CSS uses. - I then generate the .swf for testing. The CSS file is present and working. When I play the swf, Everything works okay ONLY IF the font is on my system. If I remove the font from my system and double-click the swf again, the font is replaced by a system-resident font. Is there a right way to embed a font in a swf so that when it is called by CSS, it will display even if it's not on the user's system? TIA, Marc Hoffman ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] How to Embed Fonts for CSS Usage
Just checking for gotchas... Are you loading text into a textfield on the stage, or creating the field dynamically? Either way, set myTextField.embedFonts = true; if you haven't already... Jim Kremens On 12/6/06, Marc Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having trouble getting Flash to embed a font that is designated by CSS. In Flash: - I create a textfield, create a loadVars and a StyleSheet, load the CSS into the StyleSheet, and designate the style sheet as the style for the text field. I then load text into the textfield (currently using hard-coded AS, but eventually it will be xml). - I also create dummy text fields to embed the fonts in Flash that the CSS uses. - I then generate the .swf for testing. The CSS file is present and working. When I play the swf, Everything works okay ONLY IF the font is on my system. If I remove the font from my system and double-click the swf again, the font is replaced by a system-resident font. Is there a right way to embed a font in a swf so that when it is called by CSS, it will display even if it's not on the user's system? TIA, Marc Hoffman ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- Jim Kremens ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] How to Embed Fonts for CSS Usage
Well, one question leads to another :) First, thank you Jim -- I had avoided embedFonts thinking it would embed the entire character set, but according to the Size Report it embeds only those characters I embed in the dummy text fields. So now it's working fine. And now my next question: Is there a way to dynamically increase/decrease type size when using CSS? Once the CSS is loaded into the swf, can I modify its font-size settings? I can change type size using textFormat, but since it seems you can't combine textFormat with CSS, I lose the benefits of CSS (in particular the ability to define a:link and a:hover). thanks, Marc At 09:47 AM 12/6/2006, you wrote: Just checking for gotchas... Are you loading text into a textfield on the stage, or creating the field dynamically? Either way, set myTextField.embedFonts = true; if you haven't already... Jim Kremens On 12/6/06, Marc Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having trouble getting Flash to embed a font that is designated by CSS. In Flash: - I create a textfield, create a loadVars and a StyleSheet, load the CSS into the StyleSheet, and designate the style sheet as the style for the text field. I then load text into the textfield (currently using hard-coded AS, but eventually it will be xml). - I also create dummy text fields to embed the fonts in Flash that the CSS uses. - I then generate the .swf for testing. The CSS file is present and working. When I play the swf, Everything works okay ONLY IF the font is on my system. If I remove the font from my system and double-click the swf again, the font is replaced by a system-resident font. Is there a right way to embed a font in a swf so that when it is called by CSS, it will display even if it's not on the user's system? TIA, Marc Hoffman ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- Jim Kremens ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] How to Embed Fonts for CSS Usage
You can do this. I don't have time to do even pseudocode, but Once you've loaded a sylesheet from a file, you can modify it. Therefore, you can build a function to: 1. Modify a property of your styleSheet object. 2. Broadcast notification that it has been modified to all interested text fields. If you don't know what I mean, look into EventDispatcher, AsBroadcaster, or the Observer Pattern in general. Once each textfield is notified that there's been a change in its stylesheet, it can trigger a function to reassign its stylesheet property to that altered stylesheet. Kind of like refreshing Jim Kremens On 12/6/06, Marc Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, one question leads to another :) First, thank you Jim -- I had avoided embedFonts thinking it would embed the entire character set, but according to the Size Report it embeds only those characters I embed in the dummy text fields. So now it's working fine. And now my next question: Is there a way to dynamically increase/decrease type size when using CSS? Once the CSS is loaded into the swf, can I modify its font-size settings? I can change type size using textFormat, but since it seems you can't combine textFormat with CSS, I lose the benefits of CSS (in particular the ability to define a:link and a:hover). thanks, Marc At 09:47 AM 12/6/2006, you wrote: Just checking for gotchas... Are you loading text into a textfield on the stage, or creating the field dynamically? Either way, set myTextField.embedFonts = true; if you haven't already... Jim Kremens On 12/6/06, Marc Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having trouble getting Flash to embed a font that is designated by CSS. In Flash: - I create a textfield, create a loadVars and a StyleSheet, load the CSS into the StyleSheet, and designate the style sheet as the style for the text field. I then load text into the textfield (currently using hard-coded AS, but eventually it will be xml). - I also create dummy text fields to embed the fonts in Flash that the CSS uses. - I then generate the .swf for testing. The CSS file is present and working. When I play the swf, Everything works okay ONLY IF the font is on my system. If I remove the font from my system and double-click the swf again, the font is replaced by a system-resident font. Is there a right way to embed a font in a swf so that when it is called by CSS, it will display even if it's not on the user's system? TIA, Marc Hoffman ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- Jim Kremens ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- Jim Kremens ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] How to Embed Fonts for CSS Usage
Thanks, Jim. I appreciate your help. Your post makes sense to me and I'll play with modifying the styleSheet object. If anyone has examples of this, it would probably save me a couple of hours experimenting. Thanks all, Marc At 11:24 AM 12/6/2006, you wrote: You can do this. I don't have time to do even pseudocode, but Once you've loaded a sylesheet from a file, you can modify it. Therefore, you can build a function to: 1. Modify a property of your styleSheet object. 2. Broadcast notification that it has been modified to all interested text fields. If you don't know what I mean, look into EventDispatcher, AsBroadcaster, or the Observer Pattern in general. Once each textfield is notified that there's been a change in its stylesheet, it can trigger a function to reassign its stylesheet property to that altered stylesheet. Kind of like refreshing Jim Kremens On 12/6/06, Marc Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, one question leads to another :) First, thank you Jim -- I had avoided embedFonts thinking it would embed the entire character set, but according to the Size Report it embeds only those characters I embed in the dummy text fields. So now it's working fine. And now my next question: Is there a way to dynamically increase/decrease type size when using CSS? Once the CSS is loaded into the swf, can I modify its font-size settings? I can change type size using textFormat, but since it seems you can't combine textFormat with CSS, I lose the benefits of CSS (in particular the ability to define a:link and a:hover). thanks, Marc At 09:47 AM 12/6/2006, you wrote: Just checking for gotchas... Are you loading text into a textfield on the stage, or creating the field dynamically? Either way, set myTextField.embedFonts = true; if you haven't already... Jim Kremens On 12/6/06, Marc Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having trouble getting Flash to embed a font that is designated by CSS. In Flash: - I create a textfield, create a loadVars and a StyleSheet, load the CSS into the StyleSheet, and designate the style sheet as the style for the text field. I then load text into the textfield (currently using hard-coded AS, but eventually it will be xml). - I also create dummy text fields to embed the fonts in Flash that the CSS uses. - I then generate the .swf for testing. The CSS file is present and working. When I play the swf, Everything works okay ONLY IF the font is on my system. If I remove the font from my system and double-click the swf again, the font is replaced by a system-resident font. Is there a right way to embed a font in a swf so that when it is called by CSS, it will display even if it's not on the user's system? TIA, Marc Hoffman ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- Jim Kremens ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com -- Jim Kremens ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
