AS2 Text Scroll Box Cannot Embed Font - Need To Link Font From Server?

[littleginelli]

Hi all - ok here goes somethin

So I bought a text scroller flash file and am now trying to tailor it to my needs. This is it: http://activeden.net/item/dynamic-ex...th-easing/2612

It is composed of several movieclips which link to the an external text file. The external file starts off with this
mytext= <font color="#000000" size="7">BACKGROUND</font>

This file determines the size and color of the font but does not define the actual font itself, it also contains the content. There is a movieclip within the flash file where you can denote a device font or embed a font from the properties panel.

Starting off I simply picked my font from the properties panel and used "anti-alias for animation". This seemed to work fine on the Flash preview and also once published online. However, once I used another computer to view my site the font changed and reverted to a default. This leads me to believe the font is linked to each computers font library. I am wondering if there is a way to override this and to link the font to a place on my server?

I also tried to embed my font via the properties panel but it looks warped and unrecognizable, so thats out. Unless there is another way to embed fonts that stays true to the font?

To add more fuel to the fire, the font I have to use is not html safe .. "Gotham" to be exact.

You can see the issue here on the 'about' and 'links' page
http://nicoleginelli.com/weeks/index_9.html

Help meeeeee!
- Nicole

[Eye for Video]

You may want to check to see if the text box is set for "Dynamic Text", since fonts will not embed with "Static Text".
Get into your text box with the Text tool, then choose, "Dynamic Text", then an "Embed" button shows up. Then choose the type/number of glyphs you need for that font. Use the minimum amount to reduce file size.
Best wishes,
Eye for Video
www.cidigitalmedia.com

[littleginelli]

yep, i used dynamic text to embed.. but still the font is warped and does not flow with the rest of the site. the font looks to be stretched vertically a little.. any ideas as to why it is not embedding well? any other options for embedding?

[Eye for Video]

So you went through the steps to click the "embed" button, and chose the set of glyphs to embed?
The only other thing I can think of is to be sure that the font size is set to an exact pixel size and not a fraction of a size. You might want to play with the font size. Try some sizes that are divisable by 4 or 8.... seems like sometimes there can be problems with other sizes.
EfV