Re: FLASH: Inter-OS Flash files

[John Croteau]

Hi Bill.


> My partner and I are both working on Flash projects. She uses a PC

> running Win98 and I a Mac running MOS 8.6.

> If I email her my Flash file made on my Mac, can I expect her to be

> able to read it with her Windows version of Flash and vice versa (I

> do notice the Flash files have no resource forks).

Other than the resource fork and transfer problems FLA files will work

on both the Mac and PC.


> A further question concerning this: How are Fonts handled? I presume

> we'd both need the same font installed in our systems until the SWF

> was compiled?? What would happed if I used a wierd Font she did not

> have. Would text be changed to some default font?

Unlike the SWF files the FLA files do not include font shapes, so all

computers doing authoring should have the same exact font files. This is

a particular problem working between Macs and PCs.


Suggestions.

1) Try to install the same fonts with the eact same names on all

computers working on a project.

2) if 1 is not possible then have only O/S change determine and change

font names (either on the Mac or on the PC).

3) have primary send an swf file along with the FLA the secondary O/S

team can see how the fonts look.


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