do fonts embed in swf files?

[DGTLguy]

do fonts embed in a published swf or will they change if the viewer doesn't have the font used like when creating an HTML page?

 

[oldnewbie]

In static textfields the font is usually automatically embedded, thus all should see the same font. In dynamic textfields, you have to manually embed the font to ensure that all will see the same font. Device fonts can't be embedded, and thus may vary from one machine to the other.

Regards,

 

[DGTLguy]

is there a way to check and make sure the font is embedded? and what is a device font?

I'm using Gill Sans which is a pretty standard font (at least for Mac users) but I can't forget about the Windows community.

 

[oldnewbie]

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/flashfonts.htm

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/device_font.htm

As I said, if you avoid device fonts and use static textfields, the font should automatically be embedded, thus seen the same by all. If you manually embed the font used in dynamic textfields, then again all should see the same font.
I'm on PC, if you provide a link to some text test movie, I can confirm if I see the same or not. Not too sure what Gill (which by the way is my name) Sans looks like, maybe use a more particular font, script or something really obviously different.

Regards,

 

[oldnewbie]

Is this somewhat it?

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/gill-sans/

Regards,

 

[oldnewbie]

Looks the same as...

http://www.macintoshfonts.com/mac-font/gill-sans.php

Regards,

 

[DGTLguy]

yea those are the font... while your at it could you give me any design critiques you may have... i haven't had anyone look at it yet so it would be nice to get some feedback...

http://homepages.uc.edu/~shellojj/trinityinteractive.html

the links you posted had some good info in them.. thanks for the help.