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1. Re: Embed Font disappears after copy paste
kglad Feb 16, 2012 4:29 PM (in response to dmperkins74)an embedded font is not "attached" to the textfield (despite the fact that you can embed a font using the properties panel with the textfield selected). the font is "added" to the swf. you'll see the font in the swf's library after correctly embedding.
so, if you move a textfield from a swf, that has the textfield's font embedded, to a swf that doesn't have that font embedded, that textfield (and every other textfield in that swf) will behave just like a textfield that does NOT have that font embedded.
for your situation, use a system font.
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2. Re: Embed Font disappears after copy paste
dmperkins74 Feb 16, 2012 5:02 PM (in response to kglad)Thanks for the feedback.
I'm SOOOO disappointed to hear this. I imagine there's some really smart reason for this, but it's totally wreaking havoc on some key elements we rely on daily. It really is a shame. All properties should simply carry along. This would be like if I had a movie clip that was alpha 25 and I copied it over to another file and the alpha went away. It's bad, inconsistent authoring usability.
When you say "use a system font", what specifically do you mean... is that "device font"? In the past, I've had inconsistent results with that.
Also, if I've got something that uses a fancy font? It happens that the component I'm working with is using Arial, so that's not a problem, but as I'm resolving these issues, I might have some that use something that's not on other folks' devices.
Thanks again for the input,
Dan P.
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3. Re: Embed Font disappears after copy paste
kglad Feb 16, 2012 5:36 PM (in response to dmperkins74)correct, system font = device font. you have 3 choices. i think the standard component font is _sans if you want a look consistant with other fonts.
if you want to use some other font, you'll need to develop a work-around or hire someone to do that.
p.s. please mark helpful/correct responses, if there are any.