ARB Issue: Font Embedding Reprise

Posted today:
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Font+Embedding+Reprise
Please comment by Friday (04/10/09) morning. Thanks.

See my blog post on embedded fonts
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe System, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

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V10.1.5 upgrade - Adobe PDF printer issues - font embedding

Hi,
Accepted the 10.1.5 (Acrobat Standard) upgrade. Have started having "Adobe PDF" printer failures with MS Outlook 2010: Font embedding issues.
Is there a setting somewhere I need to tweak to tell it to substitute with another font when it runs into licensing issues?
I've re-installed CutePDF as a workaround, but would prefer to use the Adobe printer.
save-as-filename.log:
"%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
%%[ Error: LucidaSans cannot be embedded because of licensing restrictions. ]%%
%%[ Font vendor (B&H) does not permit this font to be embedded in PDF. ]%%
%%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: xshow ]%%
Stack:
500
/l
%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%"
Regards,
JD

In the settings file you should be able to set to continue even if the embed fails. In that case, I think you will simply have the PDF without the one font being embedded. You can also set to never embed it in the settings file (if you can find it on your system).

Can not copy text from pdf with unicode font embedded.

Hello,
I have a pdf with unicode font embedded in it. The pdf has no restrictions. When i try to copy some text text fro m pdf and then paste itin word, the text is not the same which i copied from the pdf. it changes.
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Thanks for your prompt reply.
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https://www.yousendit.com/download/T2dkcHBEVEh0QTIwYjhUQw
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Font embedding problem PPT plugin Acrobat 9 Pro

Hi,
having just updated to Acrobat 9 Pro I encounter a font embedding problem when using the PowerPoint plugin (PPT2007) to create a PDF of my presentation. I am working under Windows 7 (64Bit) and use fonts from Mathematica (Wolfram). The generated PDF shows problems displaying the fonts, indicating that they have not been embedded (although font embedding of these fonts is set in the options). The problem does not occur if I directly print to the PDF printer - here all Mathematica fonts are correctly embedded (but this has other disadvantages since videos/animations are not integrated). The problem seems to be specific to Acrobat 9 since under Acrobat 8 everything worked correctly as well.
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Ralf

Perhaps you may need to upgrade to version 9.2 (Acrobat support of Windows 7 begins at this dot release)?
Be well...

Font embedding problem in PDFs

Since upgrading to Leopard from Tiger-
We are losing fonts embedded into pdfs, either saved through Preview or Adobe Indesign CS3.
The preview of pdfs, both in the finder windows and in Entourage email attachments are missing fonts too. Sometimes opening them resolves the issue, but not usually.
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Full Font embedding in PDF

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Font Embedding in dynamic TLFTextField

hi, how to get the same features of a static text field in TLF TextField dynamically;
for eg. I kept a static text in stage with features like font family= "verdana", color="0x000000", bold = true, font size =14.
i created a TLF TextField dynamically, with same features, but the UI is not exactly the same,
can anyone help me to solve this,
Thanks in advance.
// Coding sample-------
package com
import fl.text.TLFTextField;
import flash.text.TextFormat;
import flash.text.Font;
import flash.display.MovieClip;
public class Document extends MovieClip
private var format:TextFormat;
//Stage size = 400*200 ( For Testing )
public function Document()
   createFormat();
   var TLFText = createTLFTextField();
   TLFText.text = "Font Embedding Problem";
   TLFText.defaultTextFormat = format;
   TLFText.embedFonts = true;
private function createTLFTextField():TLFTextField
   var txt:TLFTextField = new TLFTextField();
   txt.x = 250;
   txt.y = 200;
   txt.width = 250;
   txt.height = 30;
   txt.selectable = false;
   addChild(txt);
   return txt;
private function createFormat():void
   var verdana:Font=new VerdanaClass();
   format = new TextFormat();
   format.color = 0x000000;
   format.bold = true;
   format.font = verdana.fontName;
   //format.font = "Verdana";
   format.size = 14;

Hi,
thnks for ur solution. it s helpful.. but still i have one issue that. how to embed fonts and change from style .. like textfield.
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                    StyleManager.getStyleDeclaration(".heading").setStyle("fontSize", 23);
                    StyleManager.getStyleDeclaration(".subheading").setStyle("fontSize", 19);
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                    StyleManager.getStyleDeclaration(".subheading").setStyle("fontSize", 21);
i need to to like this way in TextLayout framework... any possiblity ..
pls let me know...
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No Font-Embedding using AIR 3.0 in Flash Professional (for iOS Development)

Hey there,
we're developing some plain AS3 projects using Flash Professional (to compile) and Flash Builder.
All is working good with the new AIR 3.0 release and performance is better than with AIR 2.6
I followed this tutorial and simlar to use AIR 3.0 instead of AIR 2.6:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/908/cpsid_90810.html
Sadly today we saw a new issue with font embedding. Neither using Flash Professional itself or Embed-Tag in the code itself works. Also we see that the SWF size does not change when adding multiple fonts.
Anybody has a clue where this issue might be caused? I can think that the way fonts are embedded has changed in AIR 3.0 and it's not working with the "replace AIR 2.6 with AIR X.Y trick".
Any help welcome.
Best,
Cedric

Hi,
yes. It works now.
The problem was the TLFTextField itself. Strangely in debug on my Mac fonts showed of correctly, but on the device not. So I assumed that there was an problem of embedding.
But after changing setDefaultFormat to setFormat, then setting the tlftextfield.htmlText = ".." and after that doing tlftextfield.textFlow.flowComposer.updateAllControllers(); it works on the device.
Strange to me, that with active fonts on my Mac it works without updateAllControllers - but on the devices not.
Thanks for the hints.

New ARB Issue: Button navigation and Declarative States

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A new ARB issue has been posted to the flex open source site:
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This issue concerns the new state syntax and what it means to leave a value
of a property implicit in one or more states.
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Ned Murphy wrote:
Select the textfield that is inside the movieclip and in the properties panel you should see a dropdown for selecting the type of textfield. If you select Dynamic and then assign an instance name to the textfield you can use that instance name in your code to assign the text when the file runs. If you were to name the textfield "tField", then the code you would use inside an instance of your movieclip named "mClip1" would be...
mClip1.tField.text = "your text";
So, if I have multiple buttons, using your example, would the code read
mClip1.tField.text = "your text";
mClip1.tField2.text = "your text2";
mClip1.tField3.text = "your text3";
mClip1.tField4.text = "your text4";
And my buttons are built inside movieclips, ie
Main Timeline > aboutButton_mc > aboutText_mc > "about"
 > contactsButton_mc > contactsText_mc > "contacts"
can the code be put at any level, or does it need to reside on the Main Timeline to access all the movie clips' text fields?
Just in case this may be too complex to get into via this forum, if you know of any good tutorials, that would be awesome too!
I tried doing a search, but it's so hard to tell if they might be in AS2, or AS3, and if they would apply to newer versions of Adobe Flash (I have CS5)

ARB Issue Committed: Button navigation and Declarative States

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graf_ix_guru wrote:
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> Hey everyone I am new, and really could use some help.
> I have created button symbols in Fireworks with Pop-Up
Menus. As of right now
> I have 4 states. The up, over, down and over while down.
Everything is working
> great except when the user clicks on the navigation
button they get taken to
> the top of the page.
On click should open a new page, yes? So it won't matter.
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ARB issues posted

Hey all,
The Flex team has a group called the Architecture Review Board that meets
regularly to address issues that seem to be coming up. It's the kind of
group that often gets to deal with the "hallway conversation" issues. I've
taken a number of the issues that we've resolved over the last few months
and put the notes from those decisions on the Gumbo page
(http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Gumbo) down at the bottom.
A few notes, the ones that are already closed should be marked as such.
There are 2 at the bottom that are getting resolved now, so I've opened the
comments section if you're interested. Finally the Halo/MXML prefix issue
is potentially going to be re-opened dependingon the outcome of the Fx
prefix discussion (which I'll be posting more about later today).
We will briefly discuss the ARB issues in our standard iteration meeting,
and will be better about having notes posted as the decision is coming up as
we move forward.
Matt

<div class=Section1> color:#1F497D'>Cheers fella<o:p></o:p> color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p> color:#1F497D'>As it said, it was a very little import. <span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J<span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p> color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p> <div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'> "Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Matt Chotin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 07 February 2009 20:26 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ARB issues posted<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> A new message was posted by Matt Chotin in Developers -- ARB issues posted Yeah, given our push for a paperless world I’m not sure if I can spend a lot of time trying to make pretty PDFs :-) I know that the confluence standard output with our current template doesn’t convert to PDF nicely. If you guys have suggestions for a template we can use that would produce better output we’re more than happy to look. Same goes for getting the modified date next to document. I think we’ve only figured out how to easily get Confluence to report on the current page, not the pages we’re linking to. And updating manually is probably not that reliable. I definitely recommend using the Pages RSS feed that I got added to the sidebar. 90% of the updates you’ll see are each night when we add the changelist and update the download page with a nightly build. But you’ll also see when new specs appear and when other pages are updated. Sorry, not much help but I’m just trying to prioritize things :-) Matt On 2/6/09 5:58 PM, "tinylion" <<a href="[email protected]">[email protected]</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p> A new message was posted by tinylion in Developers -- ARB issues posted Hi mate, I was really referring to all the docs, the ARB ones less so though in truth. It’s a minor issue though, I suppose I really just wish they printed a little nicer. While I’m on the subject one thing I do wish the page displayed is a ‘last modified’ date next to the title of each document. I’m never really sure when/if things have been changed or updated other than by opening each . Again it’s a minor point. The ARB Doc’s were a very interesting read (I think that means I need to get out more!) g From:<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> Matt Chotin [<a href="mailto:[email protected]">mailto:[email protected]</a>] Sent: 07 February 2009 01:19 To: <a href="[email protected]">[email protected]</a> Subject: Re: ARB issues posted A new message was posted by Matt Chotin in Developers -- ARB issues posted Er, I wasn’t really going to spend time creating PDFs of this stuff. What benefit would that have? We don’t have them in a non-wiki form or anything, what you see is what we have (I just have them on a different wiki internally and copied them out). Matt On 2/6/09 3:24 PM, "tinylion" <<a href="[email protected]">[email protected]</a>> wrote: A new message was posted by tinylion in Developers -- ARB issues posted Hi Mat, Thanks for taking the time to make these Docs available. I hope that at some point there'll be PDFs as well as HTML of all the documents (i understand the problems with docs still in flux) Either way, just wanted to say that it's appreciated. Cheers glenn tinylion development uk ------------------------------------------------------ View/reply at <<a href="http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?13@@.59b7cda3/0">http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?13 @@.59b7cda3/0</a>> Replies by email are OK. 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How do you define which character set gets embedded with a font embedded in the library (i.e. Korean)?

I have project that uses a shared fonts. The fonts are all
contained in a single swf ("fonts.swf"), are embedded in that swf's
library and are set to export for actionscript and runtime sharing.
The text in the project is dynamic and is loaded in from
external XML files. The text is formatted via styles contained in a
CSS object.
This project needs to be localized into 20 or so different
languages.
Everything works great with one exception: I can’t
figure out how to set which character set gets exported for runtime
sharing. i.e. I want to create a fonts.swf that contains Korean
characters, change the XML based text to Korean and have the text
display correctly.
I’ve tried changing the language of my OS (WinXP) and
re-exporting but that doesn’t work correctly. I’ve also
tried adding substitute font keys to the registry (at:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes) as outlined here:
http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000211.php
but the fonts I added did not show up in Flash's font menue.
I’ve also tried the method outlined here:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_16275
to no avail.
I know there must be a simple solution that will allow me to
embed language specific character sets for the fonts embedded in
the library but I have yet to discover what it is.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000211.php
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_16275

Thanks Jim,
I know that it is easy to specify the language you want to
use when setting the embed font properties for a specific text
field but my project has hundreds of text fields and I'm setting
the font globally by referencing the font symbols in a single swf.
I have looked at the info you've pointed out but wasn't
helped by it. What I'd like to be able to do is to tell Flash to
embed a language specific character-set for the font symbols in the
library. It currently is only embedding Latin characters even
though I know the fonts specified contains characters for other
languages.
For example. I have a font symbol in the libary named
"Font1". When I look at its properties I can see it is spcified as
Tahoma. I know the Tahoma font on my system contains the characters
for Korean but when I compile the swf it only contains Latin
characters (gylphs) - this corresponds to the language of my OS (US
English). I want to know how to tell Flash to embedd the Korean
language charaters rather than or as well as the Latin characters
for any given FONT SYMBOL. If I could do that, then, when I enter
Korean text into my XML files the correct characters will be
available to Flash. As it is now, the characters are not available
and thus the text doesn' t display.
Make sense?
Many thanks,
Mike

Embedding fonts in an existing pdf that does not have the fonts embedded

Hi,
I have an existing pdf that fails to open on my ereader.
So I opened in acrobat x pro to see what might be the cause.
Selecting "file"--> "properties" -->"font" ( fonts used in this document) I can see that this pdf uses multiple windows trueType fonts and that none of them are embedded in the pdf document.
Now my ereader is linux bases, so I am guessing this might be a problem.
Being an ereader I didn' give me much to go on.
So i would like to embed all the fonts listed in this list into the pdf file and save it again with the fonts embedded.
I went to "file"-->"save as optimized pdf" -->"font"
But there both lists embedded and unembedded fonts are empty.
Why is this and how can I embed the fonts shown in the document properties into the pdf?
They seem standard windows fonts like e.g. ArialNarrow

I just looked a bit furder and actually checked wether the fonts existed and found the following:
I am using windows vista.
The fonts mentioned in the properties of the pdf actually exist in the windows installed fonts but
in windows they are no longer TrueType but OpenType.
So I am guessing this might be the reason they are not in the list of unembedded fonts in the optimizer window.
Is there an easy way to say to acrobat to replace one font ( not found on this computer) with another font that does exist and also to embed that font in the pdf document?

Font embedding works in 1.8 preview, not in 1.7.2

Hello,
I'm currently creating epubs and testing them in ADE. I am embedding Google Webfonts.
I'm finding that many fonts embedding using @font-face are ignored by ADE 1.7.2. However, ADE 1.8 preview appears to show them as intended. Incidentally, the fonts are always shown correctly on ibooks.
Could you please let me know what is wrong - is it a bug with ADE 1.7.2, or would there be a reason why it would not 'like' my Webfont TTFs? I've found at least one other user having a similar problem, apparently: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1725479&postcount=7
@font-face {
font-family : 'FanwoodItalic';
src: url(fonts/Fanwood/Fanwood-Italic-webfont.ttf);
font-style: normal;
h2 {
font-family: 'FanwoodItalic';
Thanks for your help.

Are the fonts obfuscated? If so, using what method?

Need all fonts embedded in my PDF.

I converted a word document to pdf through pdf pack. How can I get the following fonts embedded in my pdf: arial MT, arial MT bold, and arial MT italic? Thanks.

Hi Cyn Tarr,
You can embed fonts using Adobe Acrobat.
PDF Pack cannot accomplish this.
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