Missing Postscript font characters

Hi fellows,
I bought "ITC Friz Qouadrata Baltic Regular Italic"
Postscript font from fonts.com. The font map includes Latin
Extended A characters, but I'm not able to see all of them in
Flash! In Photoshop CS3 characters work just fine. Characters are
šŠ and žŽ but there may be some others also.
I've tried to embed all the characters in Flash but it
doesn't help. I can't even type the characters in static field -
what can I do? I'm useing Win XP.

Anastomoosi wrote:
> Hi fellows,
>
> I bought "ITC Friz Qouadrata Baltic Regular Italic"
Postscript font from
> fonts.com. The font map includes Latin Extended A
characters, but I'm not able
> to see all of them in Flash! In Photoshop CS3 characters
work just fine.
> Characters are ?? and ?? but there may be some others
also.
>
> I've tried to embed all the characters in Flash but it
doesn't help. I can't
> even type the characters in static field - what can I
do?
Not all fonts are fully supported and you can't compare flash
and ps, two totally
different applications which handles fonts in very different
manner.
Try to type that text in some other text document where you
can see the character
correctly, and paste it in to flash. If still does not work,
then you out of luck.
You will need to try different font.
Best Regards
Urami
"Never play Leap-Frog with a Unicorn."
<urami>
If you want to mail me - DO NOT LAUGH AT MY ADDRESS
</urami>

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