Re: FLASH: unavailable font

[Byron Canfield]

This is generally the case of Flash trying to convert a Type1 (PostScript)

font to it's own proprietary outline format for purposes of embedding it in

the Shockwave file. Under certain conditions, this won't work (with

anything earlier than ATM 4.0 Deluxe under Win95/98, and sometimes not at

all under Windows NT, regardless of ATM version).


If it worked before, however, it sounds like Flash may merely be getting

confused as to which one to use and is grabbing the Type1 version of a font

for whyich you also have a TrueType version installed.


I wasn't aware that Flash identified fonts by position in the font list,

but this could be the case. It would appear that, with your installation of

IE4 and some its bundled fonts, that the number of installed fonts has

changed, and thereby, the numeric position in the list of certain fonts,

possibly ones you are using in your Flash movie.


Unfortunately, Flash doesn't give you any indication, in the font list, as

to the type of font you're trying to use, whether it is Type1 or TrueType.


If you have a reasonable font manager, you might try uninstalling the Type1

version of the font you're calling for in the Flash movie, leaving only the

TrueType version installed.


At 08:45 AM 12/28/98 -0600, you wrote:

>When I export a particular movie, I get that error "an appropriate outline

>font was not available..."  - the only thing I had changed since before it

>didn't give the error was installing IE 4, and the fonts bundled with it,

>but didn't change any fonts in the movie.

>

>I activated every font I have, and it still gives the error.

>

>The movie looks fine, does anybody know why it's giving me this error?

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