Re: [Swftools-common] Dynamic HTML Text

[Neal Murphy]

On Wednesday 19 April 2006 13:14, Garth Patil wrote:
> Thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for.
> On a related note, something I'm noticing about using text with swfc
> is that my resulting .swf files are huge (even when compressed). Is
> this because the font files have to be embedded in the .swf files?
> Does anyone have any suggestions for how to make the files smaller?

Yup. Make a copy of the font you are using. Then edit it, removing all glyphs 
you don't need, then specify the modified font. IIRC, I shrank a SWF from 
over 200KB to around 15KB by doing this.

Sounds like a feature enhancement for swftools: subset all fonts used.

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