Flash CS5 giving me headaches No Bold style for Arial Unicode MS

[nitinmukesh]

Hi,

We recently upgraded to Flash CS5 and now are facing a lot of problems.

I created a static textfield on Stage with publish settings Flash player6 As1.0

I selected the settings as shown in attached screenshot.

The problem is I can't select Bold from styles as it is greyed out. However this work fine in Adobe Flash CS3.

Anyone knows what I may be doing wrong

[skewq]

i think you need to embed the font to your library first. And please post to flash general help, this is not related to as3

[rdoyle720]

I ran into this the other day too. Here's my guess: Fonts have different character sets for italic and bold (in some cases they're completely different font files). In previous versions of Flash it created fake bold and italic characters, simply taking your font and making the letter thicker, or skewing it. In CS5 they decided to stop doing that, and instead use the "real" fonts. Problem is if you don't have the "real" bold font installed, you have no option to use it.

[nitinmukesh]

Thanks rdoyle720 for your explanation.
Why is it that if I set the text dynamically then I am able to make it bold?

e.g.

_root._txt = "<b>Help</b>"

[rdoyle720]

You'd have to ask Adobe why that is.

I just found the old "faux bold" setting, it's now buried in a menu. Go to Text>Style>Faux Bold.