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gengwang
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March 31, 2010
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Dealing with coexisting Flash UI components and TLF component?

  • March 31, 2010
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Hi,

What is/are the best practise(s) for dealing with Flash (CS4) UI components in a project that uses TLF?

My project is similar to the "World Class Text Tour" and the client insisted on embedding all the fonts. Does it mean I have to embed the same typeface one in an old-good-time fashine and one for the TLF? In the "World Class Text Tour" the language dropdown on the top uses English to display all the language choices while in my project it uses its own language, i.e., "Hebrew" would be Hebrew in Hebrew.

Thanks.

Geng

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robin_briggs
Adobe Employee
March 31, 2010

The Flash CS4 components are based on TextField and use a different kind of font than TLF does. Unfortunately, that means that fonts that are used for both components do have to be embedded twice, both as a DF3 font for TextField, and as a DF4 font for TLF. You may not need the whole font, particularly if the text is not editable you should be able to download only those characters that are actually used.

- robin

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gengwangAuthor
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April 1, 2010

Hi Robin,

I appreciate the lead.

This may be out of the sphere of TLF but

Is there a way to specify the unicode range if I use the font symbol to embed a font in the library using Flash CS4? I noticed when I embed a font using the font symbol in the Flash IDE library, not all the glyphs are embedded; for example, no Chinese characters actually show up in a TextField if I embed Arial Unicode MS for it.

Geng

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