[swfmill] Status of importing anti-aliased fonts?

[Michael Pliskin]

Hello Ralf,

  watching this thread - I've just learned how to build swfmill for
  win32 myself, and while playing with the new build I noticed this
  'new fonts being antialiased by default' thing, and for my needs I'd
  probably like to turn it off (the result is blurry) - is that
  possible?

Mike

RF> Sorry for the late answer, but I was very busy last week.
RF> The fonts imported by swfmill are anti-aliased. But the result,
RF> especially for small font sizes, might be more blurry. This is related
RF> to the DefineFont3 Tag you mentioned.
RF> I'm not sure when a new release will be made, but I hope it happens
RF> soon. Perhaps even this year ;).

RF> You can download a current swfmill win32 build from:
RF> http://pep-mp.de/swfmill/swfmill-0.2.12.6-win32.zip

RF> Ralf

>> I’ve tried to read as much as I can from the archives about font
>> support in swfmill.   I’m unclear on the latest status of what is
>> supported and not in the 0.2.12 release and any newer builds in SVN ?
>> 
>> I’m trying to find out if having a font appear anti-aliased when
>> you’ve imported it using swfmill is supported and is this related to
>> defineFont3 tag being supported? 
>> 
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>> My usage scenario is the following: 
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> I start with a swf , say template.swf,  that does not embed assets or
>> fonts but refers to them in actionscript assuming they’ll be put there
>> when we compile it with swfmill. 
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> I have a basic mov.xml file that looks like:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> <movie version="8" width="550" height="400" framerate="30">
>> 
>> <background color="#ffffff"/>
>> 
>> <frame>
>> 
>> <library>
>> 
>> <clip id="one_mc" import="library/someimage.jpg" />
>> 
>> <clip id="logo_mc" import="library/somelogo.swf" />
>> 
>> <font name="franklin"  import="C:\Windows\Fonts\FRAMDCN.TTF"
>> glyphs="ABCDEF”/>
>> 
>> </library>
>> 
>> <clip id="template" import="template.swf" />
>> 
>> <place id="template"/>
>> 
>> </frame>
>> 
>> </movie>
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> I then compile that with 
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> swfmill simple mov.xml  new.swf
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> put it back to xml with:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> swfmill swf2xml  new.swf new.xml  
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> I do some text replacement in the xml  and finally make the swf I want
>> with:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> swfmill xml2swf  new.xml  final.swf
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Because of sizing constraints on the final swf, I need to only put in
>> the glyphs I need dynamically which is why I want to have swfmill
>> import the font.  
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> I saw where Ralf mentioned working on DefineFont3 support back in Sept
>> 2007 and I haven’t been able to tell whether that is in the latest
>> released version or any SVN version ?
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Is defineFont3 support what I would need in order for my final.swf to
>> display the font anti-aliased ?
>> 
>> I notice now that the xml created puts it in a defineFont2 tag. 
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Also, if I want to access it from action script code, is the following
>> correct , especially the XXX part if I put <font name=”XXX” ….. />  in
>> the mov.xml I used to import it?
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> var tfmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat("XXX", 10);
>> _root.createTextField("tf", _root.getNextHighestDepth());
>> var tf:TextField = _root.tf;
>> tf.setTextFormat(tfmt);
>> tf.setNewTextFormat(tfmt);
>> tf.embedFonts = true;
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Thanks for any status and help! J
>> 
>> Lynn
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 Michael                            mailto:pl at tepkom.ru