[swfmill] Large font embedding memory issue

[Ryan Nowakowski]

Using a 32-bit machine with 2GB of RAM and 2GB of swap, I start getting
these swfmill errors:

error : out of memory error
runtime error: element copy-of

If I switch to a 64-bit machine with a ton of RAM will I avoid these
issues?

- Ryan

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 09:39:42AM -0500, Ryan Nowakowski wrote:
> 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
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >                                                                            
> >              Ryan                                                          
> >              Nowakowski                                                    
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> >              h.org                [swfmill] Large font embedding memory    
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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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