Then you would have a compiler that you couldn't distribute because it required Adobe JARs.
- Gordon -----Original Message----- From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 1:35 PM To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [FALCON] Fonts Question On 11/12/12 1:18 PM, "Gordon Smith" <gosm...@adobe.com> wrote: > For Apache Flex, you should require or download fontswf as a > prerequisite and use it to turn the font files used by the Mustella > tests into SWF files. Then the Mustella tests should embed the fonts from the > SWF files. Ok, but by requiring fontswf we are effectively requiring the Adobe-licensed font jars. Would it be a lot of work to have Falcon call those jars directly? > > - Gordon > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 1:01 PM > To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: [FALCON] Fonts Question > > Ugh, I knew I was forgetting something. There is no embedded font > support for Falcon. I'm not even sure fontswf will work. Gordon may know > more. > > I was going to look into copying code from MXMLC to do some of the > font embedding, but either way I think we do need to remove any > dependencies on Adobe (fontswf is also Adobe licensed) and write our > own transcoder. I'm told it is straightforward for CFF fonts, but it > might be more work for the older fonts. > > That said, looking forward at Flex on JS, is there font embedding in HTML/CSS? > > > On 11/12/12 1:39 AM, "Cyrill Zadra" <cyrill.za...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Recognized that the mustella test swf compiled with falcon use >> different font then the ones compiled with the legacy compiler. That >> tends to quite a lot of test failures so I started to investigate and >> found following statement in the wiki: >> >>> Falcon includes transcoders for the various types of embedded >>> assets, >> which read, for example, a PNG file and convert it to the form >> required inside a SWF. It does NOT support font trancoding, because >> this relies on proprietary Adobe technology which Adobe has not >> donated to Apache. >> Instead, you must use a separate fontswf tool to convert your font >> files to SWF files and then embed the fonts from them. >> >> Does that mean we have to generate all the ttf fonts to swf fonts in >> mustella? >> >> And in the falcon compiler code I've found the follwoing method in >> Class org.apache.flex.compiler.config.Configuration: >> >> @Config(advanced = true) >> @Mapping({"compiler", "fonts", "managers"}) >> @Arguments("manager-class") >> @InfiniteArguments >> @FlexOnly >> public void setCompilerFontsManagers(ConfigurationValue cv, >> List<String> list) >> { >> // intentionally do nothing here as feature removed, but >> don't annotate as removed >> // as to not generate warnings for flex-config's which still >> set this options >> } >> >> Is the -compiler.fonts.managers argument just not implemented yet in >> falcon or does this argument make no sense in the falcon compiler? >> >> cyrill > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe Systems, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > -- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
