[osflash] External font loading - No shared libraries

[Tenney Julian]

If you then load the swf with the fonts ito your main movie, you will find that the fonts are only available to textfields in the loaded movie, not the main movie that loads it. To get around that, you have to do some voodoo. From memory, you need to create at least one textfield in the main movie that uses one of the fonts in the loaded movie, and link to that file when you embed the font. If you don't want to keep rebuilding your main swf, then you need to keep the filename of the linked swf the same each time, or the main movie won't load because it can't find the linked file. (Plesae correct me if I'm wrong - it's from memory and it's late...)
 
I do that and can use all the fonts in resources.swf from my engine.swf. I have a script that builds resources swf for each piece that uses the engine. I've wanted to do this for ages, but only recently found the answer.
 
www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte is the project. It's an authoring tool for rich interactive elearning. It's very similar to Flex, but was born whilst flex was still in its infacy and prohibitively expensive. I use it for all my work.

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From: osflash-bounces at osflash.org on behalf of Gert-Jan van der Wel
Sent: Mon 04/06/2007 19:57
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Subject: Re: [osflash] External font loading - No shared libraries


I think Julian is right, but swfmill makes it a lot easier: http://osflash.org/swfmill#dynamic_shared_font_loading

Gert-Jan


On 6/4/07, Tenney Julian <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote: 

	Can't be done. You have to build the font into a library, maybe using swfmill as part of your build process. I'd love to be corrected,
	 
	Jules

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	From: osflash-bounces at osflash.org on behalf of Daniel Gregório
	Sent: Mon 04/06/2007 17:18
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	Subject: [osflash] External font loading - No shared libraries
	
	
	
	Does anybody has an ideia of how to load external fonts in ttf? or something else instead of shared libraries?
	
	thank you very much,
	
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	Daniel Gregório 
	Adobe Certified Professional 
	
	


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