This article wants to look closer to the precedent article that we have seen: how to embed fonts in a SWF .
I received an e-mail of a user (Loris) that asked me if I could explain how to work with Flash CS3 and the fonts.
I was asked more specifically how to share the fonts included in another SWF.
To do this, Flash CS3 has 2 techniques available:
1. We hold the fonts needed in an external SWF, we can also say that SWF will exclusively store the fonts, and we load it in the main SWF.
2. As the point 1 only that we use the option ‘export for runtime sharing’ and so we do not load an external SWF containing our fonts. In this case however, we need to share the libraries and therefore the font will weight to our main FLA
Personally I think that the first method is the most valid one:
- I can load an external SWF that contains only some fonts, this allows my main SWF not to gain weight (since the weight of the fonts is in the SWF that I will load)
- loading the external SWF containing the fonts I can implement a preloader that tells the users the loading time with a cute text: We are loading the necessary graphics… ‘
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