FLASH: Postscript font strangeness in Flash

[Phil Matt]

Hello! I am experiencing some really odd font behavior

in Flash 4.


I ordinarily use Freehand or Illustrator for creating artwork, but I 

needed to use a couple of text labels in a Flash project I'm working 

on, so I thought that generating them in Flash would be simpler than 

having to import them from another app.


No problem with various TrueType fonts. Click on the text tool, type 

in the text, convert to symbol, done.


Postscript fonts seem to have the ability to lock up Flash when I try 

to convert a line of text to a symbol! This is a repeatable, consistent 

phenomenon.


System: NT4+SP5, 320Mb RAM, dual P II, etc.


I can easily go back to Freehand, but I'm curious as to why Flash 

apparently cannot live with Postscript fonts. (The Flash manual 

states that either PS or Truetype fonts are OK.)


Ideas?


TIA --- Phil Matt

Phil Matt Photography

www.philmatt.com

716-461-5977


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