Ran into a strange thing today. Authoring an application on a Mac (already I’m in foreign territory), needed to use the font “Universal Greek with Math PI”. But when I make a text field and assign that font to it, nothing shows up. We’re not talking about an embedding problem or System.codepage problem. This is in the IDE. In a static text field. If I break the text apart to a shape, nothing is left on stage. Yet, I can copy the “non-existent” text and paste it into another app and see it. This is happening on more than one machine. Tried some other fonts, it also happens with “Universal News with Commercial PI”.
After some searching I did find that these fonts are OpenType fonts and that OpenType fonts have some issues with various applications, including Freehand. Didn’t see much data on Flash though.
Anyone know anything about this? Anyone have this font and can test it and let me know if you have the same issue?
Hi,
I’ve tested Universal Greek with Math PI on Flash MX 2004 PRO on my mac, and, like you, nothing in my static field…
Universal Greek with Math PI is an Adobe font no ?
You won’t see the outline broken apart because the outline definition is not in the right format for OS X. Get Fontographer or another application that is similiar to it, and adjust the font accordingly. You may need a true type font or a post script outline file to go along with it.
OS X needs ’em to break apart any text you use. When you are using fonts in the IDE, all you are using is the screen version of the font in question, not the true outline version that Flash wants when you break apart the text.
I’ve run into this many a time and have had to fix it even more (bringing over windows fonts).
good luck!