[swfmill] Large font embedding memory issue *SOLVED*

[Ryan Nowakowski]

Here's the latest.  I was able to import the 20MB uming.ttf chinese font
with swfmill using a 64-bit linux box with 2GB of RAM and 16GB or swap.
It completed in about an hour with no errors.  I'm going to add another
2GB of RAM and see how much the compile time improves.  Thanks to all
for your input!

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:35:33PM +0100, Ralf Fuest wrote:
> I tried to import msgothic.ttc using my 64-bit linux system with 4GB of
> RAM. Swfmill could import the fonts without problems and it didn't begin
> to use the swap. The peak memory consumption about 2GB of RAM.
> 
> Ralf
> 
> > 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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> > > >              swfmill-bou                                                   
> > > >              nces at osflas                                              ?$B7oL> 
> > > >              h.org                [swfmill] Large font embedding memory    
> > > >                                   issue                                    
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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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