[swfmill] [Fwd: Re: Font Embedding]

[Mark Winterhalder]

> What is vera.ttf ? it is the real TrueType file?

Yes.

> The ID (vera in this case) may be anything? or should be the font name, and
> how do you use it in the TextField?

Yes, both -- it /may/ be anything, but /should/ be the font name for
clarity's sake.
What's missing in the tutorial, because font handling in Swfmill has
developed much further since it was written, is that there's also a
@name attribute to go with @id. @id is the Swfmill internal name (for
textfields created in Swfmill), @name is for AS usage (textfields
created by the script).

So, try this:
<font id="KlingonBlade" name="KlingonBlade" import="KlingonBlade.ttf" />

Note the @name attribute I added. An advantage of this is that you can
import multiple font types, like normal, bold, italic etc., and all
give them the same @name. When you use a bold style in your textfield,
the appropriate font style will be chosen.

HTH,
Mark



On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:14 AM, gabriel <gbelvedere at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Robin,
>
> I've already checked this link, but I had problems doing this:
>
> Fonts work slightly different. To import all numerical characters of
> vera.ttf as "vera", you would add the following after the library node:
>
> <font id="vera" import="library/vera.ttf" glyphs="0123456789"/>
>
>
>
> What is vera.ttf ? it is the real TrueType file?
> The ID (vera in this case) may be anything? or should be the font name, and
> how do you use it in the TextField?
>
> I made a quick (really quick) sample with a weird TTF and it does'nt work
> for me :(
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
>
> <movie width="320" height="240" framerate="12">
>     <background color="#ffffff"/>
>     <font id="KlingonBlade" import="KlingonBlade.ttf"
> glyphs="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz!"/>
>     <textfield id="hellobox" width="200" height="50" size="20"
> font="KlingonBlade" text="hello world!"/>
>     <place id="hellobox" name="output" depth="10"/>
>   <frame/>
> </movie>
>
> and this is what I get
>
>
>
>
>
>
> thanks again for the time!
> Gabriel
>
>
> Robin Palotai wrote:
>
> Hi!, Check http://swfmill.org/doc/using-swfmill.html#fonts
> Cheers
>
> Robin
> --
> www.mindless-labs.com
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:00 AM, gabriel <gbelvedere at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> can anyone please point me in the right direction about embedding fonts with
> swfmill?
>
>
> thanks
> Gabriel
>
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