Comments on: Finding out which fonts are installed on a user’s system http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/09/10/finding-out-which-fonts-are-installed-on-a-users-system/ A bunch of examples for Adobe Flex and ActionScript Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:37:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: John C. Bland II http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/09/10/finding-out-which-fonts-are-installed-on-a-users-system/#comment-1734 John C. Bland II Tue, 11 Sep 2007 05:57:51 +0000 http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/09/10/finding-out-which-fonts-are-installed-on-a-users-system/#comment-1734 Yeah, no sweat because I informed the client of that and used embedded fonts and we're months beyond this stage. When I saw the post I figured I'd ask to see if I was wrong because they were adamant about it being possible. :-D Yeah, no sweat because I informed the client of that and used embedded fonts and we’re months beyond this stage. When I saw the post I figured I’d ask to see if I was wrong because they were adamant about it being possible. :-D

]]> By: peterd http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/09/10/finding-out-which-fonts-are-installed-on-a-users-system/#comment-1702 peterd Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:45:24 +0000 http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/09/10/finding-out-which-fonts-are-installed-on-a-users-system/#comment-1702 John, I'm not sure how/if that could be done (you'd have to ask on Flexcoders list). Since the embed is done at compile time in Flex and the font is "baked" into the SWF, I don't know how you could do something similar at run time. But I haven't really tried this so maybe I'm just overlooking something. Sorry, Peter John,

I’m not sure how/if that could be done (you’d have to ask on Flexcoders list). Since the embed is done at compile time in Flex and the font is “baked” into the SWF, I don’t know how you could do something similar at run time. But I haven’t really tried this so maybe I’m just overlooking something.

Sorry,

Peter

]]> By: John C. Bland II http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/09/10/finding-out-which-fonts-are-installed-on-a-users-system/#comment-1695 John C. Bland II Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:39:55 +0000 http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/09/10/finding-out-which-fonts-are-installed-on-a-users-system/#comment-1695 Yes, with pre-embedded fonts...no prob. What I mean is getting the users font list and rotating on those. Yes, with pre-embedded fonts…no prob. What I mean is getting the users font list and rotating on those.

]]> By: peterd http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/09/10/finding-out-which-fonts-are-installed-on-a-users-system/#comment-1693 peterd Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:44:11 +0000 http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/09/10/finding-out-which-fonts-are-installed-on-a-users-system/#comment-1693 John C. Bland II, You should be able to rotate embedded font no problem as long as it is embedded properly. In fact, I believe I covered an example of embedding fonts with alpha fades and rotations in a Flash CS3 Quick Start I wrote a while back. For more information, see http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/quickstart/embedding_fonts/ (specifically the last example). I don't know that I've specifically tried this in Flex (although I do recall posting something on rotating tooltips which probably applies). Peter John C. Bland II,

You should be able to rotate embedded font no problem as long as it is embedded properly. In fact, I believe I covered an example of embedding fonts with alpha fades and rotations in a Flash CS3 Quick Start I wrote a while back.

For more information, see http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/quickstart/embedding_fonts/ (specifically the last example).

I don’t know that I’ve specifically tried this in Flex (although I do recall posting something on rotating tooltips which probably applies).

Peter

]]> By: John C. Bland II http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/09/10/finding-out-which-fonts-are-installed-on-a-users-system/#comment-1691 John C. Bland II Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:35:18 +0000 http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/09/10/finding-out-which-fonts-are-installed-on-a-users-system/#comment-1691 Question/Issue: (I haven't tested this in Flex but Flash CS3 doesn't allow it (for understood reasons).) Can you embed those fonts and do rotations, etc on the textfield? CS3 would show the font properly but doing rotatings was a no-no. Question/Issue: (I haven’t tested this in Flex but Flash CS3 doesn’t allow it (for understood reasons).) Can you embed those fonts and do rotations, etc on the textfield? CS3 would show the font properly but doing rotatings was a no-no.

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