[Laszlo-dev] font embedding issue in flex

[P T Withington]

Sounds right to me!

On Jun 24, 2010, at 11:47, Henry Minsky <hminsky at laszlosystems.com> wrote:

> See http://jira.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-9140
> and discussion at http://richardleggett.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/03/16/definefont4embedding
> 
> What is happening is that Adobe has some new option for the format used in embedding fonts for use with their new text layout framework.
> They switched the default for this in the new version of the compiler we're using. 
> 
> We can set this flag when the LZX compiler embeds the font. Setting to CFF=true makes the font only usable in the new framework, setting
> to false makes it available to the existing TextField. 
> 
> And ... we can apparently embed the font both ways if we wanted to, at a cost of file size. 
> 
> I guess I'm going to make the compiler use the old embedding format for now, until we switch to the new text sprite
> implementation, and then switch it over. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Henry Minsky
> Software Architect
> hminsky at laszlosystems.com
> 
> 
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