[swfmill] Embedded fonts looks dfferent for flash8 and flash9 and different from Flash CS application

[Michael Pliskin]

Hello Mark,

  thanks for the pointers, I think we will look into the code anyway.
  Will update the community about the results of course.

  I don't think we need 100% similarity, we just need to improve the
  look'n'feel a bit - currently, CS one seems a lot better in some
  cases, and it'd be nice if swfmill output could be of comparable
  quality.

Mike

MW> As far as I know, Swfmill only supports DefineFont2, not DefineFont3
MW> as it is used in SWF9 (or 8?). DefineFont3 would be needed to take
MW> advantage of the better font rendering settings.

MW> I might miss something, so please Dan or Ralf correct me, but it seems
MW> the places to look for are:

MW> <http://swfmill.org/trac/browser/trunk/src/xslt/simple-import.xslt>
MW> from line 140, and
MW> <http://swfmill.org/trac/browser/trunk/src/SWFImportFreetype.cpp> from
MW> line 48 need an importDefineFont3 equivalent.
MW> <http://swfmill.org/trac/browser/trunk/src/SWFGlyphList.cpp> might be
MW> of interest as well.

MW> Anyway, I don't know C++, but the links above should be a start.

MW> And the spec covers all of SWF, not just 9. The AVM2 opcodes are
MW> missing, though.

MW> Regarding differences in font output, I imagine that they still
MW> wouldn't be 100% the same, since Swfmill uses FreeType and Flash
MW> uses... something else. That something might be in the Flex SDK
MW> sources somewhere, but there it would probably be in Java.

MW> HTH,
MW> Mark



MW> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Michael Pliskin <pl at tepkom.ru> wrote:
>> Hello Mark,
>>
>>  MW> How about the official specs, which just had the restrictions removed
>>  MW> a few days ago? :)
>>
>>  MW> <http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf/>
>>
>>  I was going to use these ones, but I think Ralf can shade some light
>>  on
>>   - what is currently supported in swfmill
>>   - what is missing
>>   - where to look in source code
>>   - some other comments/advice/whatever
>>
>>  ;) btw this spec only covers swf9 I believe (or I am wrong)?
>>
>>
>>
>>  --
>>  Best regards,
>>   Michael                            mailto:pl at tepkom.ru
>>
>>



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Best regards,
 Michael                            mailto:pl at tepkom.ru