Re: Flash Unicode issue (Latin extended Romanian chars)

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Flash Unicode issue (Latin extended Romanian ch...
\ Fredrik Jönsson (6 May 2008)
. \ Abe Pazos (6 May 2008)
. . \ Fredrik Jönsson (6 May 2008)
. . . \ Abe Pazos (8 May 2008)
. \ Kerry Thompson (6 May 2008)
. . \ Fredrik Jönsson (6 May 2008)
. . . \ Kerry Thompson (6 May 2008)

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Subject:	Re: Flash Unicode issue (Latin extended Romanian chars)
Group:	Flashcoders
From:	Abe Pazos
Date:	8 May 2008

I think someone with more experience in licenses and copyrights should
reply to that...

I don't think there shouldn't be any difference between embedding in the
IDE and through ActionScript.
I guess the resulting binary file is quite similar, and lets you do the
same things with fonts.

I didn't know about the difference between static and dynamic fields
though. Interesting...

Abe

Fredrik Jönsson wrote:
> Thanks,
> this method was all new to me.
>
> How is embedding fonts like this viewed in terms of the type
> foundries' EULA?
>
> Does 'static embedding' and 'dynamic embedding' differ in terms of how
> the outlines are embedded?
> I have read that some type foundries make a difference between using
> their fonts in static text fields or dynamic text fields.
>
> /Fredrik
>
>
> On 6 May 2008, at 18:04, Abe Pazos wrote:
>
>> Hi, I embed the font using a file like this:
>>
>> Tahoma.as
>>
>> package com.ourdomain.ui.fonts {
>> import mx.core.FontAsset;
>> [Embed(source="Tahoma.ttf", fontFamily="TahomaFont",
>> mimeType="application/x-font-truetype",
>> unicodeRange="U+0020-U+007E,U+00A1-U+017E")]
>> public class Tahoma extends FontAsset { }
>> }
>>
>> See the unicodeRange part (this works for countries like Poland).
>>
>> In some other file:
>>
>> Font.registerFont(Tahoma);
>> Font.registerFont(TahomaBold);
>> Font.registerFont(Comic);
>> Font.registerFont(ComicBold);
>>
>> Then I use a font called "TahomaFont".
>>
>> On the IDE even including the whole font did not seem to work for me,
>> but when I specified characters like above it worked.
>>
>>
>> Fredrik Jönsson wrote:
>>> I have run into problems with a flash project that needs to cover
>>> most european languages including Romanian, Slovenian, Slovakian etc.

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