Re: [Swftools-common] Dynamic HTML Text

[Garth Patil]

Thanks. I don't have much experience editing fonts. Do you have a
recommended TrueType Font editor for Linux or Windows?
Garth

On 4/19/06, Neal Murphy <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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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