I’ve just gone back to an old Flash game from a year or two ago. It was originally built in MX2004, but I’m now using CS3.
It opened fine, just had 2 missing fonts (new computer), so I defined some substitutes. It all looked okay, so I gave it a quick test to remind me whereabouts the game was when I left it.
It was all running ■■■■ weird. Most of the animations were flickering in and out of existence. some didn’t show up at all. They are all vector graphics just tweened for rotation, size and position, not anything fancy at all.
I tried the original swf just in the standalone player and that was fine, I tried the new swf from CS3 and its all broken.
I did a quick search for the missing fonts while I tried to figure out how to fix the flash. After installing close versions (I couldn’t find the exact fonts) the flash exports fine.
I must stress that the fonts are in no way used in the animations, and the fonts were substituted with different fonts anyway, I just found closer matching ones.
Totally crazy bug, without any reasonable explanation, so I’m kinda hoping that someone here has had a similar issue so I know I’m not going completely barmy.
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