Embedded fonts, where the F*#! did they come from?

[sparklett]

Hey all, this might be a dumb question, but I have a small movie, that claims to have an extra embeded font, making it about 3k larger than it has to be..

I can't locate any text field that would have this font embeded, is there a good way to find any and all text fields in a movie, regardless if they have text in them?

(Bonus points if you can tell me how to output a 2.0 movie, without the 2.0 class bloat)..

Thanks in advance!

[deadbeat]

Are you using MM components?

K.

[sparklett]

But at one time I had a combobox on the stage and removed it. It doesn't show up in the library..so it seems there are no components associated with the movie any more...

[deadbeat]

Try checking Generate Size Report in your publish settings, and republish...

That will create a text file telling you exactly what is used & where

K.

[sparklett]

Been staring at that for a couple hours now..

Font Name Bytes Characters
---------------------- --------- --------------
Lucida Grande 8 pts 2604 !"#$%&'()*+,-./0...
Silkscreen 8 pts 2985 !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123...
B ITCKabel Bold 910 ?ADGI...


Lucida Grande is the culprit...The block that now holds the Silkscreen font was most likely Lucida Grande first...this makes no sense...grrr MM

Any thoughts?

[deadbeat]

I would try deleting the textfield and recreate it...

Also double check that you don't have any extra, empty text fields with the embedded font lurking around anywhere..

K.

[sparklett]

That was the original thought - how would I go about finding empty text blocks..is there any better way than just frame by frame?

[deadbeat]

Movie Explorer panel might help...

K.

[sparklett]

Just tried replacing the text block with Silkscreen with an entirely new one...nada - and you would think the find and replace with font setting would do it, but it could find nothing...ahhh, is this a bug discovered?

[deadbeat]

I wouldn't trust the Find & Replace...it doesn't seem to find dynamic text fields with embedded fonts in a Font search...

K.

[sparklett]

Well, confirm that the block that is holding the silkscreen font is the culprit - I have created it from scratch, re-embeded Lucida and then switched it back to Silkscreen - still embeding Lucida..."you are about to enter, the Twilight Zone..."