Embedded fonts

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Wed Jul 16 16:12:00 EDT 2003


One possibility is to use QuickTime to play a Flash SWF that has your
editable fields in it (I *think* this will work); Flash will embed the
fonts and Rev can take advantage of it...

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 

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> [mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Howard Bornstein
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 3:23 PM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Embedded fonts
> 
> 
> I just want to confirm something about embedded fonts. Basically you 
> can't do it in Rev, correct? (Ok, I believe you can embed 
> fonts on Mac 
> systems as resources, but if you want cross-platform 
> compatibility, you 
> can't do it).  
> 
> So if you create a stack or standalone and want the same typeface to 
> appear across platforms, then you have to pick a typeface 
> that's common 
> to the platforms you're building for, correct? (Like 
> developing for the 
> web).
> 
> I'm talking about editable text. I understand you can convert any 
> typeface to a graphic and use that anywhere.
> 
> But to have compatibility of typefaces across platforms, you 
> either have 
> to pick a typeface that's standard for the platforms or get 
> the user to 
> install your desired fonts. Is this correct?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Howard Bornstein
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