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Hi,
I have just been given this url as a possible source of much needed help on a problem I encountered today.
I have been working through teaching myself Flash 8 along with some Actionscript 2 - yes this is probably gonna be a predictable noob question.
I have been working with text and have been looking at linking a text file into a Dynamic Text area via actionscript. The text file that is formated with the simple HTML commands that Flash recognises <b> <i> <li> etc.
The dynamic text area has a simple Var - name
the actionscript that calls the external text file is - loadVariables(“textFile.txt”, this);
When using Device fonts the text file displys perfectly within the .swf file on publishing. When editting the text file in isolation to the .fla file the swf picks up all the changes without a hitch.
I have noticed though that when I try to embed the font in order use anti-aliasing and to control how my project is displayed on computers with the same device fonts problems start to arise.
If the embedded font is embedded as a regular font (ie no bold or italic) then the font variants (bold and italic) do not display properly, in fact they do not display at all, this results in the swf file displying only part of the externally referenced text file. If I then embed the bold variant of the font the exact same thing happen eg the regular variant and italics do not display.
I have read on the net that this is because, to quote the macromedia site -
“…[FONT=Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2]When embedding a font, Flash does not include the entire font family automatically. Only the plain font is embedded without the bold and italic variants. Because of this, HTML formatting that uses bold or italic formatting may not display…”
What is the easiest work around for this, I have read that creating text outside of the Flash stage to force Flash to embed those characters has an effect but it seems a very scrappy solution.
Help is definately needed
TIA
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