[FlashCodersNY] setting text format for embeded fonts revisited

[Hudson Ansley]

Thanks for the thoughts Seth, the idea is that the font need not be in
the assets swc. This allows me to embed the font with code so that I
can specify unicode ranges, and optionally load the font at runtime.
This looks to me like a bug in the player. It is kind of interesting
that the original font used is stored somewhere in the TextField data
that is not affected by setting the default format or using
setTextFormat

If I get some time, I'll set up a minimal test case and see if Adobe
thinks it's a bug too ;-)

I think some future meeting should be about handling embedded fonts in
Flash, I volunteer to present some tips and cautions :-)

Regards,
Hudson

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:21 PM, seth hillinger <seth at rd11.com> wrote:
> Hey Hudson,
>
> is that code inside the swc?  If so, have you tried embedding the font again
> in the swf that uses the swc? Is the instance of the field created in the
> swf or the swc? Just some random questions. Not sure I know the answer.
>
> best, Seth
>
> On Mar 31, 2009, at 3:01 PM, Hudson Ansley wrote: