[osflash] Flash fonts on Ubuntu

[Mark Winterhalder]

On 11/15/05, TheFlash <theanimage at gmail.com> wrote:
> There's something weird about the dynamics Textfields on the Linux'
> distro Ubuntu, fonts like Verdana or Arial don't appear in the
> textfields, causing the texts to don't show. Maybe it doesn't come
> with these fonts, but I'd like to know  if there's a way to embed
> fonts like in Macromedia Flash, just by code. Thanks...

i don't know about ubuntu, but i don't have them installed, and i came
across the missing font problem on sites i've visited.
there's no way of loading them by code (even if they were installed).
you can check if they are installed, though, and use a different one
if not. if you want to guarantee that a font is available to the SWF,
you will have to embed it into your SWF. swfmill is one way to do it.

btw ubuntu, just fyi:
http://www.osflash.org/debian_packaging

hth,
mark

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