Through The Eyes Of A Dreamer » bold http://heidibrebels.be home of heidi brebels Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:07:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Flash embed font bold http://heidibrebels.be/blog/archives/2006/flash-embed-font-bold http://heidibrebels.be/blog/archives/2006/flash-embed-font-bold#comments Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:43:13 +0000 admin http://www.heidibrebels.be/blog/archives/2006/flash-embed-font-bold/ I use a lot of font types that people don’t normally have installed, so I embed the fonts in Flash. Only, now I tried with actionscript and CSS to make part of a dynamic text field bold. Only, the bold part of the text field wouldn’t show, the text would just not be there.

So, then I found out that when you embed a font in Flash, flash doesn’t include the whole font family automatically. Meaning, that by embedding a regular font, the bold and italic aren’t included.

A workaround for this, is to just add another text field to your stage, somewhere out of sight (or not), and embed the same font type but with bold activated. Run your flash file again and you’ll see that the bold in your other text field is now visible too.

See also: Flash Technote: HTML text fields do not display formatted text

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