I don’t think we are ever going to see a solution for embedding fonts in ActionScript that is easy to use. In AS3 we were introduced to the use of the [Embed] tag, allowing you to embed files both from the local system, and also from exported swf files. Extra options include the option to specify the unicode character ranges, to save on file size. The best solution, is to use runtime shared libraries or make use of getDefinitionByName() to extract them out of loaded swf, however what happens if you need a textual preloader to load the font swf,
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Just the other day I caught a developer here (who shall remain nameless) painstakingly positioning and resizing 3 assets from an external swf file, in order to give some resizable UI components we needed, the rounded corners they truly deserved. It would be much nicer to do this using just one sprite and purely in Actionscript though, wouldn’t it? Yes it would!
If you found Bryan’s post impenetrable and have some rectangles in need of a good rounding check have a look at this ridiculously easy snippet o’ code:
public function roundrect()
{
var matr : Matrix = new
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MONUMENTA is an essential date in the contemporary art calendar. Each year, MONUMENTA invites a leading artist to engage with the monumental nave of the Grand Palais through the creation of a series of new works. After Anselm Kiefer in 2007, Richard Serra takes up the MONUMENTA challenge, from May 7 to June 15, 2008.
| Jeudi 15 mai 19h30 : Robert Storr |
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Une approche originale du travail de l’artiste par le |
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