[swfmill] Large font embedding memory issue

[Ryan Nowakowski]

The problem is that the textfields are populated using dynamic data
at runtime.  I can't predict what characters will be used.  That's why I
need to embed the whole font.

- Ryan

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:02:09AM +0900, matsuhashi at quick.co.jp wrote:
> Ryan,
> 
> I am new to this issue, and have made no progress on it, sorry.
> 
> In fact I use the swfmill heavily for embedding Japanese glyphs from the
> large MSGOTHIC font. But I never use swfmill for embeding ALL glyphs. I
> explicitly specify which glyphs I want to. See the following exmaple,
> espacially
>   <font ... glyphs="..."/>
> part. If you enumerate the glyphs to embed, the swfmill runs fast enough.
> 
> <movie width="300" height="100" framerate="12">
>     <background color="#FFFF00"/>
>     <frame>
>         <!-- import the numerical characters of vera.ttf -->
>         <font id="MSGOTHIC" import="C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\MSGOTHIC.TTC"
> glyphs="?$B%/$$012"/>
>         <textfield id="kuikui" width="270" height="100" size="60"
> font="MSGOTHIC" text="?$B%/$$012"/>
>         <place id="kuikui" name="output" depth="10"/>
>     </frame>
> </movie>
> 
> If I need a swf with ALL the glyphs of a font embeded, I would use Adobe
> Flash IDE rather than swfmill. Make a new fla; create a TextField which is
> capable of displaying any chars dynamically set; specify the font name you
> want (do not specify DEVICE FONT!); then publish it. The swf produced will
> have all the glyphs and will be ridiculously big. But is it really what you
> want? Curious.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> MATSUHASHI, kazuaki
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> Folks,
> 
> Has anyone made any progress on the large font embedding issue[1]?  At
> one time there was some talk of moving swfmill from a tree-based DOM
> approach to a streaming one(SAX).
> 
> 1. http://osflash.org/pipermail/swfmill_osflash.org/2006-April/000534.html
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ryan
> 
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