[swfmill] [Fwd: Re: Font Embedding]

mawe mawe at typeofundefined.com
Thu Jan 22 14:04:16 PST 2009 

Damn it ... ;-P

Well, sorry then. Would you like to send me a zip containing everything that I 
need to test this on my (Vista) machine? I'm curious.

Regards,
Matthias

gabriel schrieb:
> mmm sorry mawe, you lost your mum ;), UAC already disabled here :)
> 
> but thanks for trying
> 
> mawe wrote:
>> I'd bet my mum that this has something to do with the oh so great UAC.
>>
>> gabriel schrieb:
>>> Hi Axel, great f*** news...
>>>
>>> I've tested installing the font and nothing happened... ON VISTA!...
>>> Tried the same example in xp and it works :-(  ...I can go on in this 
>>> way, but any idea in which could be the problem with vista?
>>>
>>> thanks again!
>>> Gabriel
>>>
>>> Axel Huizinga wrote:
>>>> Hi Gabriel, are you working with windows?
>>>> I tried your example and on windows it didn't work for me too until 
>>>> I installed the font into the
>>>> windows fonts directory - weird but then it works
>>>>
>>>> Axel
>>>>> Mark, thanks I can't figure it out...
>>>>>
>>>>> I've tried your suggestion and no way:
>>>>>
>>>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
>>>>>    <movie width="320" height="240" framerate="12">
>>>>>   <background color="#ffffff"/>
>>>>>     <font id="*jettat*" name="*jettat*" import="*jettat*.ttf" />
>>>>>     <textfield id="hellobox" width="200" height="50" size="20" 
>>>>> font="*jettat*" text="HELLO world!"/>
>>>>>     <place id="hellobox" name="output" depth="10"/>
>>>>>   <frame/>
>>>>> </movie>
>>>>>
>>>>> The library tag has something to do here? swfmill is not 
>>>>> complaining about anything.
>>>>> The TTF file is called "jettat.ttf" and the font name is "Jetta 
>>>>> Tech". I assume that @font in textfield is "jettat" (the font id) 
>>>>> right?
>>>>> I've attached the ttf file, can you test it please? so we know if 
>>>>> is working or not? 
>>>>> I'm compiling like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> swfmill.exe simple testText.xml testText.swf
>>>>>
>>>>> is that correct?
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks again.
>>>>> Gabriel
>>>>>
>>>>> Mark Winterhalder wrote:
>>>>>>> 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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