RE: [Swftools-common] problem with fonts

[Naseem Amjad]

I support "\xE8\xB5\x9b\xE8" notation. I am developer of Arabic type apps.
 
Thanks
naseem

        -----Original Message----- 
        From: address@hidden on behalf of Matthias Kramm 
        Sent: Wed 9/22/2004 1:16 AM 
        To: mtang 
        Cc: address@hidden 
        Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] problem with fonts
        
        

        On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 12:45:22PM +0800, mtang wrote:
        > 1.       I got error message : "test.sc", line 2 column 26: warning-
        > Couldn't open font file "output.swf"
        > when using swfc and the output.swf was an existing font file 
transferred
        > by font2swf.
        
        Strange- is that the Windows or the Unix version of swfc?
        
        > 2.  When directly applying the font arial.ttf in test.sc, everything
        > works fine and fast and the resulting swf is small (about 126k, and I
        > noticed that the size of arial.swf is about 142k).
        
        Font SWFs are usually not compressed- swfc SWFs are, usually, depending 
on
        the flash version specified in the .flash header.
        
        >    But, when I applying some Chinese or Japanese fonts, eg. xxx.ttf, 
in
        > test.sc, the swfc compile it very slowly and the resulting swf is very
        > large (about  12,126k and
        > noticed also the size of xxx.swf is about 12,311k). (But I love the
        > resulting swf very much with the xxx.ttf font. They are very 
beautiful.
        > Thank you guys!)
        > So, I guess the problem of slowly compiling is that xxx.ttf (maybe
        > contains 7,000+ characters) is far more larger than arial.ttf (26
        > letters + 0-9 +.) and fonts (xxx.ttf or arial.ttf) are included in the
        > resulting test.swf file in a certain form. Is there a way to speed up
        > this?
        
        Loading the SWF Font instead of the TTF font usually speeds this up
        quite a bit. So I suggest we try to make that work on your system.
        Can you play the SWFs generated by font2swf in the Flash player?
        
        > Can we just include fonts for 'hello world' in the resulting swf?
        
        librfxswf does have some options for reducing a font only to it's
        used characters, but it hasn't been included in swfc yet- I'll
        set it on the TODO list.
        Btw., could you send me one of those 7,000+ characters fonts? I've
        never tested with such a font before. Thanks!
        
        > 3.       Is there any methods for specifying a utf-8 encoded
        > representation (can be typed by keyboard) to text?
        > Eg.  .text helloworld font=Arial
        > 
text=chr(0xE8).chr(0xB5).chr(0x9B).chr(0xE8).chr(0xBF).chr(0xAA).chr(0xE
        > 7).chr(0xBD).chr(0x91)
        > (obviously using text = "0xE80xB50x9B" won't produce our desired swf)
        
        Good idea. What about (C-Notation) "\xE8\xB5\x9b\xE8"?
        
        Greetings
        
        Matthias
        
        
        
        
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