Font embedding is the inclusion of font files within an electronic document. This is possible with several file formats including Portable Document Format (PDF) and Microsoft Word (DOC).
Questions tagged [embedded-fonts]
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Flex 4 Disappearing Labels with Embedded Fonts and Charts
I'm using an embedded font in Flex 4, which on its own seems to work perfectly. I then added some charts and specified the -fteInMXComponents compiler option to get the embedded font in the charts. When I did this, the axis values in the charts…
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using @font-face for 2 fonts causing big slow-down
This is the first time I've used @font-face. The font pack is from myfonts.com and I'm currently testing in Safari and noticed through the web inspector that the css file, which loads the 2 fonts shows as a nearly-2mb-download ! the fonts appear to…
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conflict between fonts in swc and external swf
I have an actionscript 3 based website that is loading font outlines dyncamically, from external font swfs, using a common technique.
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var FontLibrary:Class = e.target.applicationDomain.getDefinition("font") as…
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How to embed a custom bitmap font into website using CSS
How can I embed a custom bitmap font into my website using CSS? I've tried the following but it just reverts to the fallback font:
@font-face {
font-family:'AgendaSemibold';
src: url('Agenda-Semibold.bmap') format('bitmap');
}
I'm trying to call it…
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Spark item inside mx component won't render embedded font
I have recently converted a Flex3 AIR project to Flex4, so it now uses Flex4.1 sdk and . It is a large project and having painstakingly updated all the vital bits of code to work with Flex4 it now happliy compiles.
Most of the…
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Determine whether a Word document contains a restricted font using VBA
Is there a way to determine whether or not a Word document (specifically 2007, if that matters) contains a restricted font using VBA?
I don't necessarily need a way to remove the font, just to determine whether or not the document contains an…
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SSRS using Identity-H encoded font on Norwegian letters makes PDF text search not work
We have recently upgraded some of our servers running reporting services. The servers are now running Windows Server 2016 and SSRS 2014. Previously we where running SSRS 2008.
I'm not sure if my problem is related to the OS upgrade, or the SSRS…
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How to turn off anti-aliasing on an embedded font
I have a pixel font from www.fontsforflash.com. I have embedded it using flex then loaded the swf in flash CS4 to make it available. But its very blurry and I can find a way to turn off anti-aliasing in as3.
Its the right size and placed with whole…
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Runtime introspection of linked SWC using ActionScript 3.0 + Flash/Flex
Wow, my first post on Stack Overflow. Have I "arrived"?
Okay, this is an oddball. I'm trying to determine whether there might be some programmatic way to introspect the classes within a linked SWC at runtime.
To give a little more background (maybe…
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Runtime fonts in Flash Builder 4
I am trying to get the following example to work in Flash Builder 4:
http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/articles/runtime-fonts-as3.html
The Actionscript project compiles but all I get on screen is a tiny rotated square with no text in it.
Does anyone…
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/Differences dictionary for encode parsing issue in PDF
Type1 font /Differences encoding uses strings in mapping of values for example 1 character is encoded to 'one'. It is used for numbers and special characters only.
What is the standard way to use these encoding?
How should I decode string from PDF…
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embeding fonts or changing to safe font?
whats the better solution for embeding fonts problem?
drink a lot of vodka and try to embed custom font on web site or just leave that idea and use some web safe font?
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Fontello icon font shows strange characters until cache is cleared when var_dump is output before doctype
We use fontello icons across a site and 90% of the time they display correctly in all browsers. For some reason when we var_dump (PHP) code before the html doctype they all break into strange characters (See images below) and are only fixed when the…
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IE8 doesn't display embedded web fonts -- on any site
From what I understand, IE 8 should display embedded fonts, however my version substitutes generic fonts -- not just for my code, but on other sites, even when the CSS is properly IE-hacked (for example, this sample displays all the IE-hacked…
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