Embed fonts in Flash CS3 and load in Flex at runtime

Hi,
I want to embed fonts in the library of Flash CS3, compile it into a SWF and load it in my flex up at runtime and register the embedded font.
I'm able to get the linked class in Flex but the font doesn't show.
The FLA has a font called Viner Hand embedded as a library item, with linkage VinerHand and baseclass as flash.text.Font
Here's the code in flex to register the font -
var FontLibrary:Class = ApplicationDomain((event.target as LoaderInfo).applicationDomain).getDefinition('VinerHand') as Class;
Font.registerFont(FontLibrary);
When I do Font.enumerateFonts after this, I see [Font VinerHand] in the array but the textField doesn't show the font embedded.
Nishant

Hi there,
Try taking a look at the following links:
http://www.trajiklyhip.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/7/18/Embedding-Fonts-in-Flex
http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/10/25/embedding-fonts-from-a-flash-swf-file-into-a-flex- application/
Hope it helps.
With best regards,
Barna Biro

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Also in @font-family style declarations, I can code hint for "font-family", "embed-as-cff" styles property too.
Although, it is true you do not get code hints for values for those particular properties, I think that CSS editor could support it too, but it does not.

Flash CS3 and Filter problem

Ok. So I have a file that was originally created with Flash
8. The file was opened in Flash 9 and published. The problem is
that the text that I have in there is being cut off when published
(publish preview only, The full publish works fine so far). I've
narrowed it down to being a problem with the filters that are used.
I'm using a basic drop shadow on the static text.
More specifically, when I publish using Flash 7, filters are
not supported and they are dropped out and the entire word shows.
When I publish in Flash 8 or 9 with filters turned on, the words
are cut off. For example the word "connection", when a filter is
applied, all that publishes is "connecti". The o and n are gone.
And if I change the settings on that drop shadow filter, the word
is cut off in a different place than before, sometimes cutting a
letter in half. When I delete the filter and publish in 8 or 9, the
entire word shows again. Also, I can edit the blurX or Y, or the
strength or distance and it will sometimes show the entire word.
But when I do this to other words, it creates a problem on those
words. If I then go and edit the settings back or to different
numbers, cutoff happens once again.
This is very inconsistent and makes working with filters
difficult since I can't preview what I've done without doing a full
publish. I've converted the words to movie clips and so far have
not had the same problem, however, I don't want to add movie clips.
So this basically looks like a glitch with this new version of
Flash. I sure hope that someone at Adobe sees this post and might
look into the problem.
I'm on an Intel based MacBook Pro. If anyone has run into
this problem, please let me know if you have found there to be a
solution rather than a work around. Thanks to Anyone who can help.
And once again, this only appears to be a problem when I do a
publish preview, not a full publish.
Tobin

Thanks; thats helpful.
What's going on is that the filter is being reused for your
text instances.
Flash does automatic associations between frames to see where
some objects
should be instances of or related to the objects in the frame
before it. In
your case, since each of your frames have a single static
text field in the
same depth (one spot above the jump in button), and since
they all use the
same drop shadow filter with the same settings, Flash will
reuse that exact
same filter for each of the objects in consecutive frames at
those depths
assuming they are the same object. What this amounts to is
the bounding box
for the first text+filter combination being used for all
others. You can
see this more clearly if you move the "Love" text to be at
the beginning of
the sequence and then test your movie.
What can you do? Here are a few options (though only a few
may work in your
situation):
- include one frame between each text field
- on every other text field, modify a property of the filter,
either
adjusting the strength by a value of 1, changing the quality,
or something
not visible but enough to make Flash recognize it as a
different filter
- in a layer under every other textfield place an invisible
object. This
should force every other text field to be at a higher depth
thereby
preventing Flash from assuming they are the same object as
the one before
it.
- place each text field in a movie clip thereby separating
the filters from
the same timeline (or, technically, just every other text
field would be
necessary)
- change your text to dynamic text. These will be treated as
separate
instances (or at least Flash will be wise enough not to be so
static in its
application of the filter). You may need to be sure to embed
your fonts for
anti-aliasing
In the mean time I will officially log a bug. Though Flash is
"technically"
doing what it thinks is best, its not working out very well
for this case.
"PhoTobin" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
>I have not scaled the text at all. We've just used font
size. Here is the
>link to download the FLA.
>
>
http://www.3peaksintl.com/intro-filter.zip

More FMS & Flash CS3 not loading FLV

I consider myself an intelligent fellow, but getting Flash
CS3 to stream vis FMS is killing me. I've read the posts here where
people are describing similar situations. I've read several
websites that show kinda similar methods of getting this done, but
none are working! The docs on FMS & CS3 are like in an infinite
loop "see AS2.0/3.0 documentation on how to stream videos" &
when you get there "See FMS documentation on how to stream
videos"!!
I've read this & did it all, no dice:
http://www.mcalister.cc/ddd/flv/index.html
Read this which linked me to above, no dice:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveD ocs_Parts&file=00003495.html
Here is my config:
SERVER running FMS2, Windows Server 2003, IIS6, offsite, but
am able to RDP in.
File structure:
C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash Media Server
2\applications\ForRentFlash\streams\small\Cosmo_Small.flv
C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash Media Server
2\applications\ForRentFlash\main.asc (sole content being:
load(components.asc))
Where: ForRentFlash = appName
small = instanceName
Flash CS3 development locally & testing movie produces
WHITE SCREEN.
Component Inspector for FLVPlayBack AS3.0 dropped on stage:
Source Content Path:
rtmp://1.2.3.4/ForRentFlash/small/Cosmo_Small.flv (of course with
correct IP)
No matter how I go about this, I end up with: FAILED TO LOAD
rtmp://1.2.3.4/ForRentFlash/small/Cosmo_Small.flv.
Port 1935 was opened on the firewall of the remote
server.

Try placing your flv files in a _definst_ directory.....
Here is how mine are set up:
C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash Media Server
2\applications\aniridia\streams\_definst_\V032v.flv
I don't use any .asc files, but I'm fairly certain that they
would be in the root of the " aniridia " directory (which is the
application), rather than in the " aniridia\streams\_definst_ "
directory.
My videos would not stream until I put them in the _definst_
directory.
I use an xml playlist with my flv player to call my videos.
My stream syntax looks like this:
rtmp://mydomain.com/aniridia
Don't reference the flv file name.
Good luck!

Flash CS3 and Javascript

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote in another thread about how
Flash CS3 (using AS3) can directly handle javascript. I must tell
you that this direct handling is limited. You cannot call custom
javascript functions from html this way. If you need to call
function in your html, you must still use ExternalInterface.
Flash CS3 has a new function called navigateToURL().
navigateToURL() is part of the flash.net package and is
asynchronous (does not return any kind of value).
Let's say you want to throw a simple javascript alert message
to a user. You need to first make a call to the URLRequest
constructor and pass it a string value that uses javascript
protocol. In the alert example, you'll be calling the string
"javascript:alert('Your first AS3 javascript call');" To those
familiar with HTML, this will look very very familiar. All put
together, it looks something like the code below....
This idea can be expanded on and added to custom event
handlers in classes for buttons and other things in your projects.
Remember though that you must call the javascript code as it
appears in the javascript protocol. So to open a popup window,
you'd need to use window.open( blah, blah, blah ). Personally, I
still use ExternalInterface to call my Javascript functions (if I
need them at all). The only reason I use navigateToURL is when the
browser I'm using does not support ExternalInterface.
Anyhow, the code for the above example is down below. If you
have questions, post them here.

k,
my post 2+ weeks ago was adrenaline driven and premature. the
example I just gave was the code I was talking about. Why I ever
posted that URLLoader was capable of javascript interaction is
beyond me. I know better. The purpose of my post was simply to
answer questions I've been getting in my e-mail and to clarify my
original post 2 weeks ago.
As I stated, navigateToURL is meant for specific scenarios
just as getURL was in AS1 and 2 which was replaced by navigateToURL
in AS3. This would be more for the Linux users and the a-typical
O/S users where ExternalInterface is not supported by the browsers
on those operating systems. I do not condone using navigateToURL or
getURL. I will always recommend external javascript files and
ExternalInterface. My apologies for leading anyone on with my
premature run-off of the typing finger.

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