Flash CS 4 / AS 2 + Dynamic Text + Html + Embedded fonts...

Question

I have this scenario:

1) I have a dynamic text that receives its data from a XML.
2) The texts showed get theirs style from a CSS file.
3) My dynamic text has a html 'span' tag and it's formatted according to the CSS class that it's passed via the XML file.

Ok... so far so good. It's something like:

_root.txt.txtDica = "<span class='"+ node.childNodes[_global.auxCont].attributes.myStyle +"'>" + node.childNodes[_global.auxCont].attributes.myText+ "</span>";

The problem is that the swf has a poor quality text. So, I've been looking around, found some things about embedded fonts, Flash TextField() and etc. But, nothing seems to work.

Does anyone know how can I generate this html tag in a dynamic text with a good quality? It's worth to say that I'm using regular fonts, such as Verdana and Arial.

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

I would embed the characters just the characters you need.

1 - Click on your dynamic textField on the stage,

2 - Select 'Antialias for readablility' in the property inspector.

3 - Click EMBED in the property inspector.

4 - In the EMBED popup, choose 'basic Latin', 'Latin extended', or any charsets that you need, or paste in the characters you need in the box on the bottom of the popup.

That should be it! You CSS styles should still work fine.