# News Flasher - Masking Issue
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-flasher-masking-issue/16029
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [March 20, 2003, 9:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-flasher-masking-issue/16029 "2003-03-20T09:35:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Kashmere](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Kashmere)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 9:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-flasher-masking-issue/16029/1 "2003-03-20T09:35:15Z")
I can’t seem to mask this component. Does anyone know how?
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/newsflasher.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/newsflasher.htm)
Thanks
Kashmere
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 9:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-flasher-masking-issue/16029/2 "2003-03-20T09:42:30Z")
Howdy and Welcome…
Just one quick questions… Did you embed the font properly within that component and your movie???
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 9:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-flasher-masking-issue/16029/3 "2003-03-20T09:55:55Z")
I believe so. I’m using Arial as an embeded font.
I you have got it to work with a mask, please send the fla file to my email address.
Thanks
Kashmere
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 9:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-flasher-masking-issue/16029/4 "2003-03-20T09:59:46Z")
Well… Why not put up what you have right now, so that other people can take a look at it??? I think that will be faster… 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 10:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-flasher-masking-issue/16029/5 "2003-03-20T10:07:53Z")
Here’s my sample file, note you need the text file too! see posting below.
Thanks
Kashmere
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 10:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-flasher-masking-issue/16029/6 "2003-03-20T10:10:21Z")
Required text file attached.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 10:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-flasher-masking-issue/16029/7 "2003-03-20T10:13:52Z")
Um… I told you to check if the font is embedded correctly…
Well… Guess what!!! It wasn’t embedding the font at all… ☹
The text field that says ‘Having Trouble Masking the bugger!’ is the one that needs to get the font embedded… Click on the Character and say All Characters…
That worked for me… Let me know… 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 10:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-flasher-masking-issue/16029/8 "2003-03-20T10:23:45Z")
Excellent, issue solved. I was under the impression that an embeded font was by default a font selected from ones list of fonts. Also that a nonembeded font was \_sans, \_serif & \_typewriter. Looks like I need to read up on the differences.
Thanks heaps
Kashmere.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2003, 10:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-flasher-masking-issue/16029/9 "2003-03-20T10:27:37Z")
No problem… 😉