Re: [Flashcoders] How to japanese people embed fonts?
i have to get japanese characters into our application, but as i see it, there is no solution for this :( If you embed a Japanese font the file size will increase by 1.75MB or more per font, so I would not embed Japanese fonts for on-line delivery. I would use generic device fonts for dynamic texts. For static texts you don't need to embed fonts at all. Kenneth Kawamoto http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/ ___ 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 japanese people embed fonts?
I'd agree with Kenneth. If possible, use something like Verdana which definitely includes all the characters you need - not all fonts do. But, if you really do need to embed the fonts, then you can use a combination of your first two suggestions to acheive what you want. 1) create a font symbol, giving it whatever name you want to use to refer to your font. 2) create a text field on the stage and use that to force Flash to embed whichever characters you want. For different font weights, use more font symbols and text fields. As Kenneth warns, it can very quickly pump up your compiled swf size though. HTH Adrian P. On 6/30/06, Kenneth Kawamoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have to get japanese characters into our application, but as i see it, there is no solution for this :( If you embed a Japanese font the file size will increase by 1.75MB or more per font, so I would not embed Japanese fonts for on-line delivery. I would use generic device fonts for dynamic texts. For static texts you don't need to embed fonts at all. Kenneth Kawamoto http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/ ___ 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 japanese people embed fonts?
i have to get japanese characters into our application, but as i see it, there is no solution for this :( If you embed a Japanese font the file size will increase by 1.75MB or more per font, so I would not embed Japanese fonts for on-line delivery. I would use generic device fonts for dynamic texts. For static texts you don't need to embed fonts at all. Like Kenneth said, simply don't - use _sans or _serif as fonts so it will use the default system fonts. You will lose some control of the text - you won't know in advance the length it will have (it will change from computer to computer), and even how it will be rendered (with or without antialias - also change from computer to computer). The good thing is that although it's limited, you do have some control of it - you can still use effects (Flash 8+) for example. So it's simply a matter of dealing with it in a different way. - Zeh ___ 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 japanese people embed fonts?
But, if you really do need to embed the fonts, then you can use a combination of your first two suggestions to acheive what you want. 1) create a font symbol, giving it whatever name you want to use to refer to your font. 2) create a text field on the stage and use that to force Flash to embed whichever characters you want. I'm not sure if this works for Japanese text, as a Font Symbol does not include Japanese font outlines even for a Japanese font. (This behaviour may be different on Japanese version of Flash IDE, but I don't know.) The only way I know is to embed fonts into TextFields manually. But then you can embed only one style per TextField and you cannot mix styles such as bold and italic in one TextField. (These issues were the points of the original poster if I understood correctly.) If you really want, you can create 3 extra dummy TextFields per font, and embed bold, italic and bold-italic styles. After that you can mix all these styles in one TextField. However this has a heavy penalty - about 9MB for just one font. Use _sans or _serif as in Zeh's post… Kenneth Kawamoto http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/ ___ 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
