Good afternoon,

I have created several dynamic text fields. One in english, one in chinese, and one in korean. None of the text boxes have the fonts embedded. This works no problem on my MAC OSX machine or a machine containing a full unicode font. However, I can't guarantee that my user will have these fonts so if I embed the font outlines for all characters on the Korean and Chinese text fields, the text diappears. I am loading UTF-8 encoded text files containing the variables for each language. Any ideas why embedding the font would cause it to disappear? I would understand a spike in file size but not a complete vanishing.

Thanks.

Hi guy

Very intresting question I'll try to help you

Your idea it´s great but not sucessfull.

Why don't you think in xml ? it's the best way to sold your problem.
In flash mx 2004 you have this option that you can put , how? go to menu and click on window > other panel > strings or shurt cut ctrl+11, (cmd + F11 on mac) you will see how to easy when the dialog box appear click on settings and choosse the language, and in all instances that you did put the corresponding language or just try to do make in xml and importing.


I hope I helped you

Bye

Thanks for the response,

However getting variables into Flash is not the problem. Getting them to display is. When I publish the SWF without embedding the Korean and Chinese fonts, everything works fine. I get a string of Korean and Chinese characters in their respective text fields just as they live in the UTF-8 text file. When I publish the SWF with the Chinese and Korean fonts embedded, the text disappears. I tried publishing in OSX and OS 9 with the appropriate languages kits installed. When I look at the size report, it seems as if Flash is not embedding the entire font. Could this be? I would expect the file size to jump dramatically for an far eastern language given that there are so many glyphs.

Thanks again.

i'm not sure this will be helpful at all, but you might try creating a FONT object in your font library for each of the fonts you are trying to export. general steps:

1) goto your library window and click the options menu (top right corner) and select "NEW FONT"
select the font and give it a name. this name should show up in the PROPERTIES pane when you are editing a text object (it will be followed by *).

2) optional? you may want to right-click the new font object and , select 'LINKAGE' and choose 'EXPORT FOR ACTIONSCRIPT'. i believe you only need this if you are dynamically creating objects that need this text style. i could be mistaken.

3) optional? when you create your text objects, make sure you embed font outlines for all characters.


like i said, i'm not sure this is going to help...i have no experience with unusual fonts.