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Flash - Embedding fonts

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  • 17-05-2007 7:27pm
    #1
    sticker
    Registered Users Posts: 3,056 ✭✭✭


    Hey all,

    I've created a flash movie for a main panel of a site - there's blocks of text as part of the swf. The font I'm using is Century Gothic - a system font I woulkd have thought.

    ANyway whe I tested the swf on another PC it's not showing up at all within the finished flash movie. I have read that in some cases, embedding the used font is the answer. However all solutions start at the beginning of text creation.

    Is there any way to reverse-solve this problem with the existing text I have in flash (they are converted to movie symbols now) The is an alpha effect with this text.

    Thanks in advance


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    grahamor
    Registered Users Posts: 872 ✭✭✭grahamor


    break apart the text, so it turns into vectors. You dont need to worry about fonts then because the text is now a shape (as long as the text is not dynamic)

    press ctrl-B to break apart the symbol and then ctrl-B to break apart each letter.

    I think this is what you wanted to know

    hope it helps


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    sticker
    Registered Users Posts: 3,056 ✭✭✭sticker


    grahamor wrote:
    break apart the text, so it turns into vectors. You dont need to worry about fonts then because the text is now a shape (as long as the text is not dynamic)

    press ctrl-B to break apart the symbol and then ctrl-B to break apart each letter.

    I think this is what you wanted to know

    hope it helps

    I've largeish chunks of text - is there any way around breaking apart each letter?!

    The text has an alpha effect - so would this not be dynamic?!


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    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    sticker wrote:
    The text has an alpha effect - so would this not be dynamic?!

    "Dynamic text" refers to text taken from an external source: external text file, database, etc.


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    sticker
    Registered Users Posts: 3,056 ✭✭✭sticker


    Liam Byrne wrote:
    "Dynamic text" refers to text taken from an external source: external text file, database, etc.

    APologies then... I've generated this text within flash itself using the text tool. When I test the movie on my own PC it plays fine - the text appears from one side with an alpha effect. But when I test it on my work PC it doesn't appear - all other components in the movie play - just not the text...?!?!

    I'm not using an exotic font - Arial - I'm just stuck as to a remedy


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