character loss in embedded dynamic text box

[inhan]

Hey there.

I have my text box to fade in and out so i have it in an MC and I eventually embedded the font which is Verdana.

Upon embed the sentence "This shall be the information box for the a couple of things." I got "T." in fact.

What do you guys think is the problem?

[inhan]

By the way I'm using Flash 8 and did nothing but use the embed button in the properties window. And I have anti-alias for readibility. Should the font be imported into the library too? If so, how?..

[inhan]

OK I found out that embedding the font inside the file is done by the menu of library window. I did choose the font I want to use, and renamed the font item to be located in the library. Then chose this as the font of my text box. Finally embedded the characters from within the "embed" button in the properties. Yet it still is "T."

Can't figure it out.

[inhan]

I'm improving tep by step.
I looked at the linkage of the new font element in my library and selected "export for actionscript" thing. "export in first frame" became selected as well. I did no other thing and the font finally showed up. But it takes such a long time to export when all the basic latin characters are embedded. Guess this isn't unusual, is it?

[lionseyeball]

No, that isn't unusual. When you used the "embed" button in the properties panel, did you select the glyphs that you wanted to use? It sound to me like you only embedded the capital "T."

Either way, embedding fonts in Flash 8 is completely broken. I am going back to MX 2004 because all of my current projects (I seem to remember about a thousand people telling me never to upgrade in the middle of a project) are now broken because of the embedded font bugs in Flash 8.

Good luck!-)

mike

[inhan]

That's right, embedding fonts in Flash 8 (never tried that before on the previous versions) is not so practical.

But my problem was not the selected glyphs, it was the missing of the typeface symbol -to be used- in the library. It solved it all.

But what I now wonder is, whether the standalone projector file by structure exports the font as well or whether I still need to embed that.

Greetings Mike...

[lionseyeball]

Honestly, I've never embedded my fonts in the library because it seems to be a waste of bandwidth. Given the other difficulties I've been having, I think it's time to experiment with it, though I know from reading other threads that people seem to be having the same problems with using fonts embedded in the library...

peace

mike

[Scottae]

Are you embedding all the characters that you need? Looks like you are only embedding uppercase characters and punctuation. You need to also embed the lowercase characters. See image below.

[inhan]

Alright after I've taken the steps I've written above and no more problem. Scottae, btw I had embedded all the latin characters, I'm curious why it displayed even one character then.
The "T." stuff was probably because either I had not inserted a font object in the library or because I hadn't chosen that for the font of my text.