Embed Fonts in Library for use with AS2.0 (k)

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August 18, 2008
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I'm working on a project that will never run on the web. It's a souped
up PowerPoint presentation basically. Entirely in flash.

I have a lot of ActionScript in there for animating text. The
ActionScript reads what's housed in the text="MY MESSAGE HERE" and then
chops the phrase up into individual dynamic text fields containing each
letter in the message that I then animate to get them on the screen.

It works great and I have chosen the font via a _global variable:
_global.FontFace = "ElanBook";

This calls the font from my computers font library, not the Flash's.

I would like to change this so that this font is truly embedded and
called in via ActionScript so that font looks the same on all computers
whether they have this font or not.

I have tried going to the Library > New Font...

I put the font in there I turned on Exporting for ActionScript in
Linkage. No dice.

How do I apply a font that is sitting in my library to a dynamic text
field through ActionScript. I has to be through ActionScript because the
dynamic text field does not exist until ActionScript creates it.

-Kirk

ActionScript

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N

Newsgroup_UserAuthor

Inspiring

Just had to move it down below where the calculations for width were
made. It works!

_kirk

W. Kirk Lutz wrote:
> I swear I did exactly that, and it didn't work.
>
> Now the font is in there, but the kerning is shot to hell.
>
> Very weird. Has to do with embedFonts=true
>
> If I comment that out the kerning goes back to normal, but the font is
> back to the default, Times.
>
>
> -Kirk
>
>
>
> Rob Dillon wrote:
>> Once you've embedded the font. Use the Indentifier name from the
>> Linkage window to specify the font in a TextFormat object. Then be
>> sure to specify embedFonts = true for the textField itself. To borrow
>> from the online help:
>>
>> this.createTextField("mytext",1,100,100,100,100);
>> mytext.multiline = true;
>> mytext.wordWrap = true;
>> mytext.border = true;
>> mytext.embedFonts = true;
>>
>> var myformat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
>> myformat.font = "embeddedFontName";
>>
>> mytext.text = "this is my first test field object text";
>> mytext.setTextFormat(myformat);
>>

N

Newsgroup_UserAuthor

Inspiring

I swear I did exactly that, and it didn't work.

Now the font is in there, but the kerning is shot to hell.

Very weird. Has to do with embedFonts=true

If I comment that out the kerning goes back to normal, but the font is
back to the default, Times.

-Kirk

Rob Dillon wrote:
> Once you've embedded the font. Use the Indentifier name from the Linkage window
> to specify the font in a TextFormat object. Then be sure to specify embedFonts
> = true for the textField itself. To borrow from the online help:
>
> this.createTextField("mytext",1,100,100,100,100);
> mytext.multiline = true;
> mytext.wordWrap = true;
> mytext.border = true;
> mytext.embedFonts = true;
>
> var myformat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
> myformat.font = "embeddedFontName";
>
> mytext.text = "this is my first test field object text";
> mytext.setTextFormat(myformat);
>

robdillon

Participating Frequently

Once you've embedded the font. Use the Indentifier name from the Linkage window to specify the font in a TextFormat object. Then be sure to specify embedFonts = true for the textField itself. To borrow from the online help:

this.createTextField("mytext",1,100,100,100,100);
mytext.multiline = true;
mytext.wordWrap = true;
mytext.border = true;
mytext.embedFonts = true;

var myformat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
myformat.font = "embeddedFontName";

mytext.text = "this is my first test field object text";
mytext.setTextFormat(myformat);

kglad

Community Expert

you need to embed the fonts of your textfields and you need to use a textformat instance that's applied to each of your textfields and has a font property = linkage id of your embedded font.

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