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spamGactus

2007-07-25, 6:18 pm

I'm working on a movie that I have included text in a font not commonly loaded
on most people's PCs.

It looks great MOST of the time on my PC, (of course, since I have the font
installed), but about half of the time the text reverts back to Verdana font
while I'm working on it, and once I've created the SWF, if the movie is viewed
from a PC that doesn't have the font installed, it displays it in Verdana, also.

I thought that one of the benefits of using flash is that once you commit the
movie to SWF, it doesn't matter whether the person viewing it has the font
installed.

Is this not the case?

joe

Gorka Ludlow

2007-07-26, 6:15 pm

That is not the case fonts need to be embedded into the movie. There are
several ways to do this, I'd suggest importing the font into one swf and every
single other swf can reference to that font_swf cause embedding fonts makes
your movies a lot heavier.

Cheers,
Gorka
www.AquiGorka.com

spamGactus

2007-07-26, 6:15 pm

how do I import the font into the swf? After that, do I just include the swf in my movie and the other swfs automatically see it? (I'm a really rank beginner at this)

joe

Rob Dillon

2007-07-26, 6:15 pm

Open your Library window. Select the contextual menu in the upper right
corner. Select "New Font". Select the font that you want to use in your
movie. Give it a useful name. I usually name mine "A" and the actual
name of the font. This puts my imported fonts at the top of the font
list. Select "OK". Repeat as needed to get all of your fonts imported.

Now, when you select the text tool, your imported fonts will be listed
in the font list in the Property window. Your fonts will have an
asterisk after the name, to further differentiate them. If you use these
fonts for Input or Dynamic text, you won't need to embed them.

Any additional movies that you open or start from the same Flash session
will have access to the same imported fonts as the first movie that
imported them.

Always import the fonts in to the first movie to be opened at runtime.

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Rob

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