it's important with your flash projects to embed your fonts
and this is true whether you using a custom font like I am here which is
called BLADE RUNNER MOVIE FONT that I got from de-font dot com
or your using something that's common across all systems such as aerial or times
new roman
you still need to embed the font
to prevent errors from happening
so let's go ahead and see what one of these errors looks like
this is my solar system game and I'm going to preview the
video now
and first of all you can see that I have the font is showing up which is
good
but I'm getting some output errors that says it needs to be embeded
and I'm not seeing any effects of that right here but that's okay let's move on
and this is where the users going to enter their name
and I'm gonna type a capital letter
and then some lower case
and that worked out well for me
but sometimes
people won't be able to type capital letters or they'll try to type like an
exclamation point and that's not going to work for them
or it'll randomly skip some lower case letters for no reason
so that's a problem that has to do with embedding your font
right now it looks like it's okay for me but as soon as I click start gain
it's weird because I'm just getting O O L E S S
and I have it set up in action script to say GOOD LUCK JESSICA
so let's go ahead and in embed this font
now I can go ahead and get inside this symbol
so that when I come to properties it's showing that BLADE RUNNER MOVIE FONT
and it doesn't really matter what size it is or what color it is
but now I can click embed and I can call this BLADE RUNNER
and it's gonna save the family and if it had a style you would choose which
style it's gonna save so make sure you're choosing the correct one
so for this I know that I'm only going to have people doing let's say uppercase
lower case numerals and punctuation and I'm not really going to worry about
basic Latin and Korean and all that other kind of stuff
if your unsure you can always do all
and we'll just do that for now just in case
so that's all you have to do is just name it makes you have the right family and style
and then just choose what type of characters you think people are gonna
type
so I'll click okay
and if I look in my library panel now you can see a little a icon showing you
that this is an embedded font
and we named it BLADE RUNNER cause if we just had it font one font two font three
we wouldn't know which one we hadn't embedded
because even though I test the movie right now
I'm gonna get another font embedded error
and that's because I have fonts in my buttons I have fonts
later on in the instruction area oops
let's get out of there
I have all this font right here whatever font this is
so I'm gonna click on this font here and this is FRANKLIN GOTHIC MEDIUM REGULAR
so I'll click embed
I'm gonna call this FRANKLIN oops
GOTHIC
MEDIUM
REGULAR
and I can choose all for that
and if this had been let's say ITALIC
I would need to come in and embed that as well
let me undo that
and then I can click here
and unfortunately this is different
this is future so I'll have to embed that but I'm gonna go ahead and make it
FRANKLIN GOTHIC because
that's just
a lot of embedded font they don't really differ that much that
between FUTURE and FRANKLIN
so again if I did ITALIC here I'd have to embed it and I need to check in my buttons
and see what font that is and that's FRANKLIN GOTHIC MEDIUM
so I think I should be okay let me test it
and now I'm not getting that error
and when I go in and enter my name
even if I do a space in my last name
I should be able to see good luck Jessica Edington uh oh
and this is not a problem with the font it's just that my text box isn't long
enough for somebody's name that's that long
but it is working it is showing all the letters when before it wasn't and it was
throwing out errors
so you need to make sure that your embedding your font so there's not errors
and people can successfully use your application or your movie or your game
without wondering is it broken is it their fault
is it still loading
so make sure you're embedding your font