{"id":224,"date":"2007-09-29T20:22:57","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T19:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/2007\/09\/29\/how-on-earth-do-you-embed-font-in-cs3-textarea\/"},"modified":"2007-09-29T20:23:51","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T19:23:51","slug":"how-on-earth-do-you-embed-font-in-cs3-textarea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/2007\/09\/29\/how-on-earth-do-you-embed-font-in-cs3-textarea\/","title":{"rendered":"How on Earth do you embed font in CS3 TextArea? Adobe documentation team WTF?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While working on my last AS3 project, I wanted to cut my self some slack (spare some time), and instead of building TextField + scroller  &#8211; use CS3 prebuilt TextArea component. Off course, not only that I didn&#8217;t achieve what I intended, I also spent 3 hours trying to figure that shit out.<\/p>\n<p>I figured out that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> you STILL have to embed fonts if you masked TextArea (TextField too),<\/li>\n<li>Online Flash CS3 Documentation is not what it should be.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just, please take a look at the following <a href=\"http:\/\/livedocs.adobe.com\/flash\/9.0\/main\/wwhelp\/wwhimpl\/common\/html\/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&amp;file=00000234.html\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a> (Flash CS3 Documentation &gt; Programming ActionScript 3.0 &gt; Working with text &gt; Advanced text rendering). There is absurd line that says: &#8220;The exact method of embedding a font file into your application&#8217;s SWF file varies according to your development environment.&#8221;. Well, HELLO?  What is that page I am looking at then? Adobe&#8217;s help site is pretty awful (not as bad as ATI\/AMD merged support sites &#8211; they are the worst), advanced searching is impossible and ordinary search gives you results that have no meaning. If you are looking for something on Adobe&#8217;s site related to Flash9 &#8211; my bet is you won&#8217;t find it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While working on my last AS3 project, I wanted to cut my self some slack (spare some time), and instead of building TextField + scroller &#8211; use CS3 prebuilt TextArea component. Off course, not only that I didn&#8217;t achieve what I intended, I also spent 3 hours trying to figure that shit out. I figured&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}