Understanding Flash Player Text Rendering

Hello Adobe!
I'm the lead flex dev for
Mixbook, and we are working hard
to understand exactly how Flash Player 9 renders text. We have
built a custom PDF Generation engine that uses WebKit on the Mac
for text, but there are some incompatibilities that we have been
running into. Is there a resource you can point me to so that we
can learn more about how flash player 9 renders text?
We're using Flex 2.01, and I've already read through all the
included class documentation for flash.text. So far, we've spent
most of our time with flash.text.TextLineMetrics and
flash.text.TextFormat to help us understand how Flex works. Please
contact me and let us know how we can work to resolve this.
Thanks,
Andrew

Here is some information regarding how to make a SWF obey
text size changes with the browser. The developer of the Flash
content would need to implement this ability.
http://aralbalkan.com/745

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Ive recently had an issue where every flash applications that has text is missing its text, or is somehow invisible. The video quality button in youtube videos has invisible text, and I cannot scroll around videos properly anymore because the button itself seems to cover up play button and the slider. In myspace music players, none of the text shows up. Ive tested this with many facebook appsas well, and an app such as FarmVille has text missing entirely. Checking stats on my band's facebook page, text is missing and eventhe graph itself is invisible, and this is extremely important that I see this information. This seems to be user specific on my computer because, when I log in as a guest, flash works properly. Ive tried to uninstall/reinstall numerous times to no avail. Is there a fix for this or a corrupted file? Thanks!
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Browser: Safari
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Hi Amotois, On the Flash forum there are not too many users of Mac and that is why you aren't getting a reply. I understand Flash Player, etc. but not Mac.
If you have a good understanding of the files and location of them in your Mac, I could possibly relate what you should
have installed regarding Flash Player. However, if you don't and I don't, then it would be like the blind leading the blind:-)
I also notice others on your thread that have Macs, so that would apply to them also. All I know about a Mac is that there is a library and a finder, so as you can see my knowledge is very limited.
Just thought I'd reply so you would understand why you are not getting a response. What I would suggest to anyone with
Flash Player issues with a Mac, to be sure to put that in your thread when you start one. That way anyone that would be able to help would see that. As it is, they don't know the thread is about Mac and probably pass over it. Just a FYI.
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Flash Player 10.2 won't update

I work on a 32bit Windows7 laptop, with HDD 500GB and 4GB Ram.
Since the beginning of Marchl, I haven't been able to update Flash Player; when I get an update warning, and try to run it, I get a message saying I already have a previous version of FP installed and that I have to close down all programs and scripts using Flash...the only problem is that I haven't anything open; on my laptop, there's only Adobe Flash Player 10 Plugin for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome (the program itself is not even installed) - which I use to watch YouTube videos - who work perfectly; I have MSN Messenger, too, but it was closed when I ran the install.exe application.
When I got that message for the first time, I followed the Knowledge Base, used the Flash Player Uninstaller provided on http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.htm to delete everything; it worked and I installed FP 10.2.153.1. I tried the same this time, too, but it didn't work - once I reboothed my notebook, the Plugin was back on.
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Hi, thanks. I think you are reading too fast. You missed this that I asked:
Thanks. Go to Tools, Manage addons and under "Show"(very light text) look in those categories for Shockwave Flash Object.
It needs to be Installed and Enabled.
Also, at Tools, Internet Options make sure that under Security it is set at Medium for the Internet Zone.
Have you had any Viruses or Malware?
I need to know if that addon is Installed and Enabled. Plus the Security Setting above.
Now, one thing on your Avast & Norton. You shouldn't have two Anti-Virus programs running on the same machine. This causes your system to be unstable. You should Uninstall one of them, but make sure you use their Removal Tool available on their websites.
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Hi
When i go to websites that got flash player links or options
inside the flash i can't click it , when i click it nothing happens
, im using internet explorer 7 , tried download flash player again
but it didn't work , and i downloaded firefox and i still got the
same problem , i cant click on flash in all websites ... please
help me
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quote:
Originally posted by:
HBK911
Hello again
i tried the link you gave me and downloaded flash player 8 ,
and installed r22 and it worked . so the problem was in ver 9 (124)
. i hope i can find a way to use flash player 9 cuz its better i
think ...
well thanks alot and sorry for bothering
best regards
Yes, that would be expected, since Adobe released this
security update for Flash Player 9 (Flash Player 9,0,124,0) and not
for previous versions.
This is not a bug, 9.0.124.0 - The developers of this
specific site will need to implement the required changes to comply
with the security update.
“Adobe released a security update for Flash Player 9
(Flash Player 9,0,124,0) on April 8, 2008, to strengthen the
security of Adobe Flash Player for our customers and end users, and
to provide further mitigations for previously disclosed
vulnerabilities.
Customers are advised to review the following Flash Player
updates to determine if their content will be impacted, and to
begin implementing necessary changes immediately to help ensure a
seamless transition.
If any of the following situations apply, you should read
this article in detail:
• You use sockets or XMLSockets, regardless of the
domain to which you are connecting
• You use addRequestHeader or URLRequest.requestHeaders
in any network API call when sending or loading data cross-domain
or
You provide access to content on remote domains as a web
service provider
• You have SWFs that are exported for Flash Player 7
(SWF7) or earlier that communicate with the hosting HTML by any
means
• You use "javascript:" through network APIs to
communicate outside a SWF”
Related Developer Articles:
Understanding Flash Player 9 April 2008 Security Update
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http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/flash_player9_security_update.html
Setting up a socket policy file server
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http://www.adobe.com/go/kb403183
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javascript:" URLs no longer function in networking APIs
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http://www.adobe.com/go/kb403187
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http://www.adobe.com/go/kb403030
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support channel for Adobe. If you require direct assistance, or
prefer to contact Adobe support staff directly, please contact
Adobe support.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/

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You said it is not working with Flash 11, so does that mean you tested with previous version and that worked?
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Text in Flash Player looks crap only on my computer

Hi there, i have a news section on my website (not yet live)
that has been designed in flash. The rest of the text on the site
is in HTML. The text in the flash section looks really bad on my
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none of it looks like the HTML text (although it is all arial).
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Obviously this is only a problem when i am showing my website
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SDRAM
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Hi tu meke,
With Flash you can embed the fonts using the Property
Inspector. For example, select Arial and choose Embed and Auto
Fill. This will guarantee that the fonts look the same on all
systems, however it will add to the file size.
If you would prefer not to embed the fonts for some reason,
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be due to the Fonts Smoothing Style selected on your Macintosh.
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Problem with displaying text in flash player

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Invisible text in Flash enabled web pages is a frustrating problem that is affecting Mac Users who play Farm Town (8.5+ million people on FaceBook) and probably many other games too. See this forum as an example of the problem: http://slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2531318
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1. Drag the Font folder from the User directory to the trash ie. ~/Library/Fonts. (where ~ is = your User Account Name.)
Be careful; this is NOT the Font folder in the main library.
2. Download Font Finagler v1.5 beta for Mac OS 6, and clean the font cashe files following the instructions for this free shareware app.
http://homepage.mac.com/mdouma46/fontfinagler/
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Clark

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