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- donal
if you embed a font in a movie, do you need to embed the same font into movies you load into this?
- Nematoth0
yes.. (offhand)
- rabattski0
good question and i seriously can think up arguments for yes and no but the best way is: trial and error. just try and see what happens. (and if you know please let us know).
- JamesEngage0
yes... annoyingly
- rabattski0
even if you would work with a shared library? e.g. if you would have a shared movieclip containing a dynamix text box with the fond embedded and use that thruout the entire site?
- rabattski0
fond? ehm. font. or cheese fondue.
- Bozilla0
rabattski, you are completely right. That's exactly the way you should do it. Import the font into your library, make it runtime sharable and use it throughout your movies. This way you will have only one set of characters and you will preserve the filesizes and it will work everywhere.
- rabattski0
stumbled upon this technote:
http://www.macromedia.com/suppor…
although putting a dyn. txt box in a shared movieclip could be a handy workaround (not sure, never tested it) if running into problems.
- unfittoprint0
Yes. and No.
The best way to work is to make an external library file where you amke your font symbol, and give it a linkage identifier/export.
Publish the movie as library.swf [for example]
On your movies create a font symbol with the same name, same linkage identifier but instead of exporting the symbol, check import and write the path for your libary file [ie. assets/library.swf ].
That will take all the extra KB's of all your project. The same with all your common symbols [ preloaders, symbols, etc....]
- silencer0
Sweet.
- Neuarmy0
def. good to know.
word'em up.