All fonts disappearing!

programming flash
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Hi,

I have a dynamic text box that is loaded via database. When I don’t embed fonts the text shows up ok. When I choose “embed fonts” the text doesn’t show up any longer.

This is all happening on my dev machine. I tried it with Arial, _sans and Verdana (all of which I think should be ok) and none of them will show up after selecting “embed fonts”. If I deselect “embed fonts” everything is ok.

Does anyone have any ideas how I can fix this?

Thanks

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Even stranger yet…

To the right of the text box and outside it, appeared to be the beginning of the text. It looked as if it was cut off about 1/4 of a letter width into it.

I had indent set to -20 and margin set to 25. I then set both of them to 0 and the text showed up ok.

Now I am really confused…

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Are you scripting it or doing it from the textField window?
Anyway, try to import the font in your library and export it in the first frame.

4

Hi Ilyas,

I am using a text box created with the tool bar and filling it with text via actionscript. I have a text array from which I am loading.

example:

myTextBox.htmlText = textArray*;

I am not sure what you meain about import the font and export the font but I will do a little research.

Thanks

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After a bit more experimenting:

The text only disappears when the properties are set to ‘Dynamic’ text box and ‘Embed font outlines’ with a negative value set for indent.

If I change ‘dynamic’ to ‘static’ the text displays ok. If DO NOT ‘Embed font outlines’ and use ‘dynamic’ the text displays ok.

Does anyone know if this is a bug in MX or is it a bug in my little peanut brain?

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I would appreciate it if someone could take a look at this file and confirm or deny if I am going crazy.

On my machine the text that should appear in the second two text boxes appears outside, to the right and not mulitlined.

In the second frame where the first three text boxes are no longer on the stage, the two lines of text that wrongly appeared outside the text boxes stay on the stage!!

The new text box that is displayed in the second frame (and not in the first) shows about half a letter outside and to the right of it!!

Is this happening on your machine too?

Help me please!!!