Re: [Swftools-common] Dynamic HTML Text

[Garth Patil]

thanks. that seems to work pretty well, although, i can't really
reduce the size of the font that much, because i'm building the text
on the fly based on a response from a web service. most of the glyphs
could potentially be used.
one thing i tried was simply not specifying a "font=" parameter in my
.edittext. it seems to use a default serif font, and the resulting
.swf file was 300 times smaller than importing a full font.
180KB = with full Arial.ttf imported
120KB = with reduced Arial.ttf imported
626B = with no font imported
this seems like the best solution for me, but i'm worried that i may
be creating a file that will not render properly in all cases. does
anyone have experience with this method? are there any pitfalls with
using it?
thanks,
/garth

On 4/19/06, Neal Murphy <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 April 2006 16:17, Garth Patil wrote:
> > Thanks. I don't have much experience editing fonts. Do you have a
> > recommended TrueType Font editor for Linux or Windows?
>
> http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ seems to be fairly easy to use, at least for
> this purpose. Run fontforge, open the font, select the glyphs you want to
> delete, 'cut', then generate the new font file.
>
> It would be nice if there was a command line tool that would do this
> automatically by just specifying the desired characters and character ranges.
> Such a tool might exist; I haven't had time to look for one, though.
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