Comments on: Getting Through Black Magic: Font Embedding

By: Optimization Techniques for Air for Android apps | The World In A State of Flex

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:56:37 +0000

[...] designer that has to have the fonts his way? Embed your fonts for the fastest rendering and follow best practices to limit the glyphs that you include with your embed. You can find out what fonts your Android system has in the /system/fonts [...]

By: Jonathan Campos

Jonathan Campos — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:15:06 +0000

Watching now. Whenever you see something weird, especially in Fx4 just make sure to log it and log it well so that it can be fixed by release.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:13:00 +0000

They now acknowledge this as a bug in the SDK. I have been asked to log it, if you’re interested in watching the progress:
https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-24555

Thanks for your help!
-Patrick

By: Jonathan Campos

Jonathan Campos — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:03:52 +0000

Yes, I’ll check it out. Sadly dealing with fonts does seem to be overly complicated.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:57:32 +0000

The exact same SC had been working for months built with 3.4 SDK. I did check the Assets tab to ensure the fonts were included. I know FB is seeing them as the error changes from “Unable to resolve for transcoding” as opposed to “unable to read transcoding source” when the file is there and added to the library as an asset.

Oddly, this same thing works for me using the Fx 4 SDK at the command line, building the SWC with compc with include directives for the CSS and fonts.

There is a zip file with some test projects in the aforementioned Adobe forum post if you’re interested in giving it a try in your FB4 environment.

I can’t believe something so simple is causing so much trouble!

Cheers,
-Patrick

By: Jonathan Campos

Jonathan Campos — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:51:29 +0000

I haven’t tried putting fonts into swcs via css. Usually I create a new css for each app since that will be unique to the app. Have you made sure that your font files are included the swc as an embedded asset?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:48:03 +0000

Jonathan, have you been able to do this with the Flex 4 SDK? I have a SWC which used a defaults.css file to set up styling and font embedding for some custom components. When I use Flex 4 SDK and attempt to pull that SWC into another application, the fonts cannot be transcoded. I had to put the files in the final application in order to get it to build.

This exact thing worked perfectly in Flex 3 SDK!

No replies yet on the Adobe forum either: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/534070?tstart=0

Have you run into this, or have you been able to use CSS in SWC’s to embed fonts?

Thanks!
Patrick

By: Jonathan Campos

Jonathan Campos — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:34:14 +0000

Though explorers just show one the actual files are split into each different type. Check out your actual Font folder and you’ll see what I mean. Some fonts have a dozen some odd styles including all the different weights and condensed and whatnot.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:25:32 +0000

So you have to have 4 separate versions of the Verdana font – one for each style and weight combination? Last time I checked the standard Verdana font came as a single TTF file. How do you break it out into separate normal, bold, italic, and italic bold versions?