Got this strange one:
Created a font (simple one) for a project. Use it quite happily everywhere else but....in Flash if i put it in as dynamic text it fills in all the holes i.e. in the letters e, p, o, d etc. If i put it in as static text no probs and if i bold it no problems either. Anyone seen this before?
Damian
You can't have everything...where would you put it?
nope, didnt work. I found that if i make it bold (which requires an actionscript command in dynamic text) then it doesn't happen which is bizarre.
If i install the font on my machine then it doesn't happen, but if i embed the problem is there.
Painful if i have to make all users install.
You can't have everything...where would you put it?
I get exactly the same thing with Silkscreen and Myriad Condensed Web.
Myriad is a font that's been used all across the product and it's annoying that it behaves so weirdly.
Sure, it could be broken into outlines I guess, but that destroys usability, it can't be selected/copied nor read by a screen reader/text-to-speech program.
How come flash weirds out so much with fonts? With Photoshop/Fireworks/everything else, I've never had this issue.
Is it a case of opening up the font in Fontographer or High-Logic and thinning each glyph?
LOL, no sooner had I posted than I'd come up with a short-term, botched solution.
The holes don;t fill if you set the text as Dynamic text. Annoying, selectable, but no filled glyphs.
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