Embedded font

[n3ocl@adobeforums.com]

Iam new to the forum and new to adobe 6.0

Iam creating a fill in form. in one field the font has to be OCR A EXTENDED font. If I have a comtumer complete this form and they do not have OCR A EXTENDED font installed on their computer.. will embedded a font onto the PDF file do this for me?

Please help...
thank you
Rob Jacobs
Windows XP
Acrobat 6.0 pro

[Nathan_Strong@adobeforums.com]

Whatever font you choose in the Field Properties will be embedded in your PDF, but ONLY if the font license allows you to do so. If the license does not allow the font to be fully embedded, Acrobat will give you an error when you select the font.

Nathan

[fluffysocks]

Try specifying the source location of your font like so: @font-face {
font-family: labelFont; src:url('file:///C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/Arial.ttf'); } ...I
know in Flex 1.0 there seems to be issues with not specifying the font
location.

[jason_s]

Sorry it took so long to reply, I had to finish the project up so I went a
different way with the effects that didn't require the font alpha to be changed.

But I tried this just now and get the exact same error :(

[jason_s]

Alright, I got frustrated enough to set up another vanilla Flex server and it
seems to work fine there.

The only difference between the two servers is the other one has cold fusion
deployed on it as well. During deployment of cold fusion there are java VM
changes that are specified.

Is it possible one of those changes is causing this issue?

We'll have different servers eventually for web services and Flex, but I hate
not knowing why something doesn't work.

[fluffysocks]

So you specified the font location in the @font-face style definition? How are you setting the font styles (alpha, etc.) on your labels or whatever?

[jason_s]

Yeah, I've done it with URL, local, etc.. they all work fine on the server
without Cold Fusion, and none work on the server with. In this case I'm
setting a global font-family style but I've tried it a few other ways.

I was also having a problem with remote objects on the same server and I
narrowed that down to CF being installed as well (there was some good posts
today on the flexcoders group about it actually).

Basically when you install CF there are some JVM changes that are suggested
and those changes must do something (probably overriding a jar file somewhere)
that causes a problem (in the case of remote objects it's looking in the cf
directories for classes rather than the flex server's class paths).



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.macromedia.com/2003/mxml">

<mx:Style>
@font-face {
src:url("file:///C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/times.ttf");
fontFamily: titleFont;
}
global
{
font-family: titleFont;
font-size:16px;
}
</mx:Style>
<mx:Panel width="400" height="300">
<mx:Label text="Hi there."/>
</mx:Panel>
</mx:Application>

[fluffysocks]

Sorry, I think your on your own with that one. So when you installed Flex you
didn't choose the integrated JRUN/Flex install? One of our other developers
has ColdFusion running on his Flex machine and doesn't have any problems but I
think he used the integrated install like I did.

[jaz_wd]

Embedded font on Solaris O.S. does not work. Please, help me.