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- majman
here's the problem:
i have a dynamic text box importing content from a .txt file. this text box is sitting behind a mask, and all characters are embedded. This font set that i'm using doesn't have any italics characters (miniml's standard 07_56).
everything that i need in the .txt to be italics, i have {i} {/i} tags surrounding them (pretend that the '{' is a '<').
when i initialy tried it it made a fake italics out of the words which looked like crap, but still worked. Just as it would if the text were static.
So, after a few tweeks to other unrelated things in the movie, i export it again, and everything that was in italics tags is just not there anymore. so now, it seems that because the italics fonts aren't embedded, it overlooks the words that are italicized.
ok, that was long. i would appreciate any help you guys can give me, it's driving me insane.
many thanks in advance,
- majman0
c'mon, everybody uses mimiml fonts, someone has to have come across this before.
pleeeeeeaaaaase!!!
- finnpimp0
I had a prob with html-tags in dyn.text, one solution was to just use device fonts... dunno how to work it on miniml, but it's something with the embedding. semi-random tweaking around usually results in some form of progress in flash.. :)
- unformatted0
did you enable html in your dyn.textfield?
why italize miniml's perfect pixel fonts? :)
- majman0
yeah, html is enabled.
if it were up to me, i'd definatley say no to the italics, but it's for some titles, so apparently they HAVE to be in italics, even if they look crumby.
- finnpimp0
lose the mask if possible, that usually causes trouble with dyn.text fields + rich-text formatting... yeah, that's probably the culprit..
- majman0
it's just so weird. everything seemed to be working fine, and then all of a sudden the words weren't showing up.
i'm going to reboot, see what happens.
if anybody else has a suggestion, please, suggest away!!!
- finnpimp0
it's gotta be the mask, I've had similar prob's before.
- Mick0
This is a known bug in flash - the issue is that you cannot put text with device fonts in a mask - they won't display.
Try this... create a word in flash, change it to device fonts, throw a mask over it.
- majman0
i know it's a mask issue, things are fine w/out the mask, but the mask is totally necessary for what i'm doing.
aren't the device fonts the _sans _typewriter and _serif or something. if i'm using embedded fonts, wouldn't it be a different case.
- majman0
oh, it's also scroll text and part of a component.
does that help?
- netizen0
embed the font in another text fiels somewhere else. (as small as possible and somehow hidden, it's werked for me.)
- majman0
oddly enough, netizen, i tried that already. didn't work though :(
- Mick0
Sure you have the font embedded? It doesn't matter what the font is, if you have it selected as "DEVICE FONT" it won't work behind the mask.
- majman0
the only place i see an option for Device Font is under the HTML tab for Publish Settings.
what am i missing?
- Mick0
I stand corrected, you can use device fonts in a mask (In Flash 6 only).