Comments on: Flash: Runtime Font Sharing Embedding with only Partial Character sets: How To.

By: troy

troy — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:37:29 +0000

Hi fatih,

Unfortunately I don’t have an answer for you, the characters you posted don’t show up properly on my end. It might be there are not being specified with proper Unicode, or that the font library you are using can’t be embedded into the flash file. When you embed the whole font library does it work?

By: fatih

fatih — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:26:17 +0000

hi,

firstly thanks for your tutorial. I tried your tutorial but i couldnt embed some characters like “ğ Ğ ı İ”, is there any way to do this?

By: troy

troy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:26:07 +0000

The solution here is only for AS3. You can do something similar in AS2, but it’s a bit on the complicated brittle side. Hope these will help.

http://www.sharedfonts.com/eng/index.html
http://www.kelvinluck.com/2007/02/dynamic-shared-fonts-in-flash/

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:49:24 +0000

Will this Flex solution only work when the font is loaded into AS 3 Flash projects or can the FontLoader functionality be replicated in AS2?

By: ferdy

ferdy — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:07:32 +0000

thanks ! that helped !

By: c++

c++ — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:58:14 +0000

I did use your technique, thanks for the article, this is much appreciated.
The only problem I encountered is that where kerning worked fine

var format:TextFormat=text.getTextFormat();
format.kerning=true;
…

it will not work anymore after using a font library like the one shown above.
Is this inevitably so or am I missing something here?

By: Col. Kurtz

Col. Kurtz — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:56:32 +0000

[... Ok, this entry lines up in the endless queue of Blogs, Stories and Forum-entries about the most annoying issue in Flash: Embedding fonts and dealing with external Assets/Flashfiles. ...]

By: dtk

dtk — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:20:56 +0000

I have perhaps a more simple way to reduce the file size that does not use Flex. I used FontLab (any font editor should work though) to open the font I wanted to use as my runtime font and then deleted all the extra characters I did not want. I made sure that NAME of the font was different (File -> Font Info… >> Names and Copyright). I exported the (File ->Generate Font…) as a True Type Font .ttf with a new name and the following options:

Make PFM on
Make AFM on
Always Standard Encoding
Open Type 1 export Terminal… unchecked
Use Unicode indexes as a base for TrueType Encoding … unchecked
Put MS char set value into fsSelection field… unchecked

those settings seemed to get the smallest file for me. After installing the new font and selecting it in flash as a runtime embedded font it turned out to be much smaller than the original font and smaller than doing equivalent thing using flex. here are the stats (from flash’s generate size report option in publish settings):

original size of font: 18,158 bytes

size of modified font: 9,329 bytes*

size of swf file generated with Flex with the same char set as the modified font: 10,583 bytes

*even though the size report did not show any changes in the characters exported, the size is much smaller.

By: saran

saran — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 06:14:26 +0000

You can specify a range of characters instead of individual character like:

unicodeRange=’U+0041-U+005A,U+0061-U+007A’

(A-Z and a-z)