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External Embedded Fonts, Dynamic Text Fields, Latest?
Hi all,
I'm stuck in Flash8 land. Mostly because I use mProjector and MDM Zinc to extend flash projectors and neither support AS3 correctly to date. That said..
Is a Flash8 SWF capable of using fonts embedded in "other" SWFs? I realize this is an ongoing difficulty and a well known area of confusion and well, I'm confused. All the attempts I've made so far in linking have succeeded or failed in various ways, but never fully work.
What I'd love to do is use dynamic text fields populated by data from a database (or XML file), with CSS styling, using fonts that are embedded in a 'master font SWF'. (and I'd like ice cream with that too!)
I import fonts into, say, 'shared.fla'. I set them all up for exporting via linkage (to shared.swf). I open up my other FLAs (say, main.fla) and I drag the fonts from the shared.fla library into main.fla's library. In looking at the linkage, I see it properly set it to Import for Runtime Sharing (shared.swf). I can see the font available in the main.fla font list and can select it and use it just fine. I have to set the dynamic text field to embed fonts to actually see them (and also myTextField.setStyle("embedFonts",true)).
Now all that works well and fine, but the kicker is when I want CSS to style my text. If I specify a embedded font linkage identifyer in CSS, the text disappears. i.e. I load 'style.css' and I have h1 { font-family: someEmbeddedFont; }, the <h1> text will now disappear.
Any clues in how I can specify a font to use in CSS that's embedded so it'll work, WITHOUT This font needed to be embedded in the actual library (as in, not a linked asset)? Because it works fine if I embed the font into every single SWF. But when I try to use it as a shared asset, this doesn't work.
Any ideas on how someone can achieve this?
This is so I can changed my shared.swf and supply all new fonts with the same linkage identifiers and change the font in a whole project without re-exporting any other SWFs.
Thanks for any info!
I'm stuck in Flash8 land. Mostly because I use mProjector and MDM Zinc to extend flash projectors and neither support AS3 correctly to date. That said..
Is a Flash8 SWF capable of using fonts embedded in "other" SWFs? I realize this is an ongoing difficulty and a well known area of confusion and well, I'm confused. All the attempts I've made so far in linking have succeeded or failed in various ways, but never fully work.
What I'd love to do is use dynamic text fields populated by data from a database (or XML file), with CSS styling, using fonts that are embedded in a 'master font SWF'. (and I'd like ice cream with that too!)
I import fonts into, say, 'shared.fla'. I set them all up for exporting via linkage (to shared.swf). I open up my other FLAs (say, main.fla) and I drag the fonts from the shared.fla library into main.fla's library. In looking at the linkage, I see it properly set it to Import for Runtime Sharing (shared.swf). I can see the font available in the main.fla font list and can select it and use it just fine. I have to set the dynamic text field to embed fonts to actually see them (and also myTextField.setStyle("embedFonts",true)).
Now all that works well and fine, but the kicker is when I want CSS to style my text. If I specify a embedded font linkage identifyer in CSS, the text disappears. i.e. I load 'style.css' and I have h1 { font-family: someEmbeddedFont; }, the <h1> text will now disappear.
Any clues in how I can specify a font to use in CSS that's embedded so it'll work, WITHOUT This font needed to be embedded in the actual library (as in, not a linked asset)? Because it works fine if I embed the font into every single SWF. But when I try to use it as a shared asset, this doesn't work.
Any ideas on how someone can achieve this?
This is so I can changed my shared.swf and supply all new fonts with the same linkage identifiers and change the font in a whole project without re-exporting any other SWFs.
Thanks for any info!
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