[swfmill] Dynamic font sharing, some TTFs don't work

[Tobias Hinz]

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-----Original Message-----
From: swfmill-bounces at osflash.org [mailto:swfmill-bounces at osflash.org] On
Behalf Of mawe
Sent: Mittwoch, 3. Oktober 2007 04:55
To: swfmill at osflash.org
Subject: [swfmill] Dynamic font sharing, some TTFs don't work

Hello there list,

in the last few days I've been in the search for dynamic font sharing 
methods, and most involved the well-known ugly workaround by creating 
two SWFs for one font and some crazy complicated export/import shared 
asset stuff. I thought there must be an easier way and eventually 
discovered that swfmill seems to be capable of just what I (and many 
others) want. Oh, and first off, I'm using the latest available windows 
build of swfmill (0.2.12.5).

See

http://www.deja-vue.net/blog/2006/05/26/as2-sharedfonts-datagrid-example-the
-last-stand/

for examples (might be still down, try

http://web.archive.org/web/20070621074407/http://www.deja-vue.net/blog/2006/
05/26/as2-sharedfonts-datagrid-example-the-last-stand/

instead).

OSFlash also points to this resource. Unfortunately, as the above site 
is down, I can't grab the examples Mike provided. So I'm not sure how to 
really integrate it. Anywaaaaaaaay, I somehow got it working now. The 
problem is that it only works with some fonts, but not all. For example 
it works with a font called "Dynamic BRK" (urbanfonts.com), but not with 
any of the "Frutiger" styles.

The swfmill XML looks exactly the same as in the examples (except for 
the font name attribute), my ActionScript goes here:

stop();
var assetContainer:MovieClip = _root.createEmptyMovieClip("container", 
_root.getNextHighestDepth());
var assetLoader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var assetListener:Object = new Object();
assetListener.onLoadInit = function(mc)
{
	trace(mc + " loaded");
	setTimeout(_root, "bla", 1000);
	//bla();
}
assetLoader.addListener(assetListener);
assetLoader.loadClip("frutiger.swf", assetContainer);

function bla(mc)
{
	trace("bla called over");
	
	var tfmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
	tfmt.font = "dafont";
	tfmt.size = 30;
	tfmt.color = 0x333333;
	
	var tf:TextField = _root.createTextField("test_txt", 
_root.getNextHighestDepth(), 20, 20, 200, 200);
	tf.border = true;
	tf.embedFonts = true;
	tf.antiAliasType = "advanced";
	tf.text = "huhu";
	tf.setTextFormat(tfmt);
}

The setTimeout call seems to be necessary to properly load the font SWF. 
  I already tried to set it to a longer wait time as the "Frutiger" font 
swf is slightly larger than the "Dynamic BRK" on, but it does not help.

Thanks in advance for any input on this.

Regards
Matthias

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