Advice on embedding fonts

[MIXPOSURE]

Hi all,

I've spent the last few hours going through the numerous posts and links on embedding fonts and font symbols, but I still have a few questions.

If I am only going to use two different fonts throughout the entire movie, am I better off using the "offstage textbox" method for embedding? I only need to include alpha-numerics and a few special symbols, and it looks like font-symbol makes you embed the whole enchilada. In other words, which situations are better suited for one method or the other?

A few more q's..

If I set an offstage textbox to embed the necessary fonts on the first frame, and then on the second frame I have two textboxes which require that font, how do I tell them to use the embedded font? Do I avoid the embed button for the textfields alltogether and target the instance name with embedfont=true from the main timeline? Will swfs loaded into a container on the main timeline have access to the already embedded fonts too?

And lastly; when using this method, do you need to create seperate "ringer" textboxes for bold and italics? It looks like the font symbol approach requires that you do.

Ooops,..bonus question. I know that embedding fonts for dynamic text fields gives you a few more options such as creating masks. How can I find out which options are available when fonts are embedded or not? e.g. alpha.

Sorry for all of the questions. I know I can test most of this stuff locally but when it comes to font-related issues, I'm never quite sure if it's only working "on my end".

Thanks again!

[MIXPOSURE]

Hi,

I've been running a few experiments and was pretty bummed at the results. I really want to go with the shared library but heres what I ran into:

I started an empty movie and created two offstage textfields; one for embedding Verdena and one for Treb MS. By choosing only letters, numbers and necessary punctuation symbols, the exported swf was < 10k. When I started a new movie and created Verd and Treb font symbols, the swf was over 35k! Yikes! Is that standard? Is there no way to edit the font symbols to exclude unnecessary items? ..or have I obviously screwed up somewhere? I'm having a hard time justifying font symbols because 25k is a pretty good chunk of change.

[MIXPOSURE]

Just a thought; would it be the same effect if I were to put the two "dummy" user-defined-glyphset textfields into a movieclip and then use it as a shared library item? I could just drop it offstage on frame 1 of my movies and save 25k a pop. Am I off my rocker?

[XDudedotcom]

Don't you love it when people don't reply to threads?

Embedding fonts is kinda bleh; I found the only way to get good-looking results was to do as you did - create an off-stage text field with the appropriate fonts embedded. Otherwise the fonts would snap to locations and the kerning would be awful.

[MIXPOSURE]

Hey..butt-out, X-Dude! Can't you see this is a private party going on here?!

[XDudedotcom]

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[noir]

Static textfield or dynamic? Do you just put that textfield on a hidden layer orsimply offstage?