Static Text in flash 8 disappears

Here's a weird one for you. I have a site built in flash 8
with some static
text in there. It's in Verdana, no Kern set on it and is
Anti-Aliased for
animation, whilst this appears to work on every test machine
and clients
machines we've had reports from 2 users that the Static text
doesn't appear
at all. None of the text is sitting under masks or any other
object, the
dynamic text appears to be displaying just fine. They've
installed the
latest flash version and are running on IE6.
I've searched through google groups and have found a couple
of things that
sound similar but it appears that they just changed the text
to use the
device fonts. I really don't want to have to do that if I can
help it,
especially as this in theory should be working. Anyone else
had a problem
like this, is there a bug in Flash for certain
configurations?
Thanks
James

Hey Tom,
No, I understand what you're saying. Originally, I did embed
the non-system font and used it on all of my static text. It worked
great for me in both IE and Firefox, both local and live. However,
my clients weren't getting any text at all and I have no idea why
(they tried it on both IE and Firefox). I'm not sure what the
differences in our browsers are as they are the same versions.
Maybe they have special settings set up?
As an experiment, I'm going through and changing my static
text from the embedded font to a system font. I did one section of
the site, made it live, and asked the client to test and see if
they could see text. They said they could. So, for some reason
their browsers aren't liking the original embedded font I used. As
I said in an earlier post, I know my original font embed worked
because I tested it on a computer that didn't have the font
installed. So, I don't know where the problem lies for the client.
The client has an important meeting in 2 weeks and needs to
present what I've made so far. So, until I can figure out what's
going on with the client's browsers, I'm opting to change the font
over to a system font and do away with the embedded font for the
time being.
However, you said:
quote:
If the text field is static, you need do nothing more than
choose a non-device font.
Do you mean I don't need to embed a font for static
text?

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Disappearing Text in Flash 8 Professional

Hello all,
I am experiencing some very strange behavior with my static
text in Flash Pro 8. First off, I'm having some reports from my
client that on some of their machines running IE6, none of the text
shows up on the flash website I've created. They see blank buttons
everywhere. To make sure I properly embedded the font I'm using, I
created a local set of folders that held all the necessary files
for the website and transferred it to a secondary computer. Then, I
uninstalled the font I am using on the site from that computer and
ran the site locally. Everything showed up perfectly. So, the font
is properly embedded.
To be on the extra cautious side, I wanted to test if using a
system font would work. So, I went back to my .FLA and into my
library, found the embedded font, and changed the font to _sans (it
was originally pointing at Comic Sans MS). Then, in Flash, I tested
the movie. Most of the text showed up just fine in the new _sans
font. But browsing the swf a bit more, I found that a good portion
of buttons showed no text at all...and this is in Flash, not a
browser.
I tried several things to get text to show up on these
buttons. First, I assigned the font of the static text to just be
_sans, and not use the embedded version. It wouldn't show up. Then
I thought maybe Flash was confused since I changed an already
established embedded font to point at a different font, and
proceeded to embed a second font that pointed at _sans. I assigned
this new embedded font to the static text of my button and tested
the movie. The text still wouldn't show. So, just to make sure I
wasn't going crazy, I chose a completely different font that was
neither _sans nor an embedded font...(I believe it was called
Poornut). The text showed up fine when using this 3rd font.
Remember, this is all in Macromedia Flash...not in a web browser.
To make sure I wasn't extra, extra crazy, I chose one of the
buttons I was having problems with and completely deleted it from
the stage and my library. I then built a new button from scratch
and assigned the static text on that button to be the original
embedded font that was changed to point at _sans instead of Comic
Sans MS. I ran the movie, and the text STILL won't show up. Then I
thought, maybe this is just a local problem with Flash, and
proceeded to upload the site and try it live. The text still didn't
show.
I'm not sure what to do next. I am quite confused as to why
static text on some things still show up with the change in the
embedded font, but not show up with other things. Plus, everything
shows up fine on my stage while I'm working in Flash...it just
doesn't show up correctly at run-time. Would any of you out there
happen to see where my problem lies? Any offered advice is greatly
appreciated.
Thank you in advance!

Hey Tom,
No, I understand what you're saying. Originally, I did embed
the non-system font and used it on all of my static text. It worked
great for me in both IE and Firefox, both local and live. However,
my clients weren't getting any text at all and I have no idea why
(they tried it on both IE and Firefox). I'm not sure what the
differences in our browsers are as they are the same versions.
Maybe they have special settings set up?
As an experiment, I'm going through and changing my static
text from the embedded font to a system font. I did one section of
the site, made it live, and asked the client to test and see if
they could see text. They said they could. So, for some reason
their browsers aren't liking the original embedded font I used. As
I said in an earlier post, I know my original font embed worked
because I tested it on a computer that didn't have the font
installed. So, I don't know where the problem lies for the client.
The client has an important meeting in 2 weeks and needs to
present what I've made so far. So, until I can figure out what's
going on with the client's browsers, I'm opting to change the font
over to a system font and do away with the embedded font for the
time being.
However, you said:
quote:
If the text field is static, you need do nothing more than
choose a non-device font.
Do you mean I don't need to embed a font for static
text?

Font not embedded in static text fields...

I think the title says it all. I'm building website and I've come half way now just to notice that my clients cant see my font that supposed to be there. What I've learned so far is that in static text fields, flash should embed it itself since I can't reference to it + embedFonts property not working, how can I fix this problem? Anyone had anything similar? What are common mistakes? I'm pretty new at all of this...
Thanks

thx for answers...
Font Name                 Bytes        Characters
Klavika-Regular                4555     ,-./0123789:@BCKNPVZabdefghijklmnoprstuvy
NeoTech                        6738     ,.ACDEFIKLMNOPRSTUVZabcdefghijlmnopqrstuv
there they are...
FLASH CS4
font: NeoTech
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How to Edit the Text in Flash?

Hi there,
I want to know that how to change the text on the Flash
(.Fla)
I have .Fla and want to edit it with the step by step help.
Currently, I want to edit the text on the home page.
http://www.mtkinetics.com/ayc/index.html
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bushib

1. click on the text. in the properties panel it will say
static text, dynamic text or input text.
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inside your text. then edit. if it's not static text, you can do
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yourself. You do not need to convert the letters to shapes.
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I'm very new to Flash. I set up a swf movie on the index page
of
http://www.chicagowoodturners.com
which has apparently been working fine. I've seen it on a number of
different computers and OSs. Yesterday I saw it on a freshly
installed Vista machine, and all the static text was invisible.
Dynamic text appeared fine. Colors are websafe #663300 and #cc00ff.
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is welcome!
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Hi,
We are using Adobe Live Cycle designer 6.0 to design print forms.
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V Joshi.

Hi Nikhil,
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earlier versions of flash however it was generally fixable by
republishing from the platform on which the text was originally
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and as a
mask (to create an inner shadow effect). The static text is
in a
symbol. It looks perfect in the IDE, but when I test the
movie or
publish it, the mask doesn't work. I originally had the text
in a
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appears and
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I'm using Flash MX 2004.
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apply it with actionscript,
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Text Wrap Options have Disappeared ID CS4

All the icons in my Text Wrap window have disappeared. The tab/pallet is still there, but empty. The pop out still lists “Show Options” and “Apply to Master Page Only” are still there, but grayed out. Thanks in advance for any help!!

Yipee.
Should have remembered that one.
Thanks for the help!
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The Flash Text and Flash Button options have dissappeared

the Flash Text and Flash Button options have dissappeared in the insert menu in Dreamweaver CS4. They used to be there but not now

Adobe announced the features they were removing from CS4 a year or so before CS4 launched:
The ill-conceived Flash buttons and Flash text were among the deprecated features.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/10.0_Using/WS2C41F19D-502B-4fb5-8A54-4442E2127C84a .html
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Timelines
Web services
Layout mode
Site Map view
Java Bean support
Adobe® Flash elements (Image Viewer)
Adobe® Flash text and Adobe® Flash buttons
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