Re: FLASH: Flash Font Test

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Here is why we did the test:


>From Flash 4 manual page 115:


"Flash exports type to your final movie with all of its system information

intact. Type you create while authoring on one platform may not appear

properly on other platforms; moreover, your audience must have the type's

font installed for it to display properly, even on the same platform."


Now I may be reading this incorrectly but this seems to suggest to me that

if the viewer/ user does not have the font installed then it will not

display properly. However, my experience has been the exact opposite. I have

never had a problem displaying fonts.


So the fonts are (by default) first converted into shapes, and thus it

doesnt matter if the user/viewer has the font installed on their machine.


I am reading this correctly?


Thanks again...


Mike C

meshex-pressnet [dot] com

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Subject: Re: FLASH: Flash Font Test



> Hi Mike,

>

> > We are running a test with fonts and Flash 4.

> > Can I get some feedback on the following page:

> > http://www.meshdesign.com/flash/font_test/

> > I am interested in whether all of the fonts look the same, and if not

which

> > ones are different.

> Of course they look the same.

>

> All regular text in Flash is sent with shapes.

> The third broken apart text would be larger, is not efficient and is a

> waste of bytes. It has 2 't's, 2 'i's, 2 's's and 2 'e's which have

> their common shapes duplicated when the text is broken apart. Breaking

> apart text is not a major problem with a single short line like this but

> is a big problem with paragraphs of text increasing file size by huge

> amounts. You should ONLY break text apart if you need to shape tween it

> or modify its shape. Do not be mislead by speed increases in text

> processing when playing an animation in the authoring environment

> because it does not transfer to the SWF file (or Test Movie).

>

> Text not displayed with shapes supplied with Flash;

>    1) If devicefonts  is set as true in HTML and the user has the exact

> fonts on their system.

>    2) _san, _serif and _typewriter use fonts on the users system

>    3) Text field text uses the fonts on the user's computer unless one

> of the Use font outlines is selected. If you do not select Use font

> outlines, one of the designated device fonts (_sans, _serif or

> _typewriter) and the user does not have the exact font on their system

> then the user's computer will pick a font and it is very likely not be

> even close to what you want.

>

> For text fields (not regular text) if you do not select Use font

> outlines and you are not sure whether your audience has the exact fonnts

> then you should use oone of the designated device fonts (_sans, _serif

> or _typewriter) so the user will get a similar font shape to the one you

> design. Note, it will be similar and not neccessarily the same.

>

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