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Flash cant find my font? Fonts in Adobe Flash CS4 on OSX

Bodie Leonard — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:52:50 +0000

For a while now I have just skirted around the issues I have been having with fonts in flash. The font I have had problems with is not one in particular but today it was an Open Type Font. I started some R&D on this issue and I actually sent a tweet @Flash_Platform the other day on this issue. Their reply was, “@bodie_leonard With recent release of Text Layout Framework- as open source and in FP10 -fonts should get easier…Stay tuned.” but I couldn’t stay tuned! Who in the web industry can wait for today when today’s work is due yesterday . So in my research I started by downloading Font Explorer and then installing the font. I made sure the font was inside all the correct font folders, that the check mark is checked in all the places that it needed to be checked, restart all apps, restart system, login logout. All sorts of stuff to get this font to show up in flash cs4. I even tested the font in Photoshop… it worked. So what is the deal with flash. I started by searching in google but I kept getting outdated results so after watching Diggnation I tried searchhing on Bing.com and you know what it had a lot better results. I found this thread where a ton of people shared my problem.

Fix: Here is how i fixed this time costly problem. All I had to do is find out how to delete the cache on my system so inside FontExplorer in the main menu under Tools > Clean System Font Folders was the trick! Thats it, then it automatically restarted my system and I lost all the work I had open but the good news was my font was finally showing up in flash. YES!!

I hope this helped at least one person out there for this post was made possible for the greater good!

Broken fonts in flash

Possibly the coolest thing I have see in flash

Bodie Leonard — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:43:30 +0000

Taking flash webcam to the next level with papervision.
Dynamic papervision

Click Here site has been launched

Bodie Leonard — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:12:56 +0000

Finally after many hours of flash development my coworker Corban Baxter and I have finally finished the Click Here website. This is my first full blown website with Actionscript 3.0.
Developing this site I learned that you must error proof as you go or an end product will be a big roll of duck tape.

10 Useful tips in developing a large scale flash as3 site that is fully dynamic in every way possible.

Start with SWF Address or Gaia and work your site around those frameworks for deeplinking.
Consistently check to make sure the flash doesn’t bog down the processor and loading times are adequate
Use as many classes as you can to cut down on repetitive functions
Make sure all a href=”" target=”_blank” links are not blocked by browser popup blockers as you code to save headache at crunch time.
Disable all elements on stage that are not in the tabIndex by tabEnabled = false;
Make sure you have all the up-to-date free debugging software. Flash Tracer is great if your on FireFox
Make sure you removeEventListeners as you develop for garbage collection
One object to rule them all. If your loading in XML create an object={}; so you can call one central location to prevent player corruption down the road.
Instead of for loops everywhere try forEach()
Enjoy as3 and learn something new with every new project. Check out this very helpful presentation by Branden Hall CTO & Chief Sofware Architect at Automata Studios