I don't recommend this for a new compiler because font transcoding is so slow that it should really be done only once, before compilation.
- Gordon -----Original Message----- From: Gordon Smith Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 7:41 PM To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [FALCON] Fonts Question Alex is suggesting writing a transcoder tor Falcon that uses Adobe's proprietary font JARs. He says this is what Apache's version of the old compiler has. - Gordon -----Original Message----- From: Cyrill Zadra [mailto:cyrill.za...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 6:42 PM To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [FALCON] Fonts Question So basically for flash we've got following options: ** create swf fonts from the ttf fonts and rewrite the mustella tests to use the swf fonts ** write an own transcoder from ttf to swf For html we don't need anything like that because it already supports a bunch off font format like ttf, svg. Did I got that correct? On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Gordon Smith <gosm...@adobe.com> wrote: > I'm not sure. The engineer who did the font embedding for Falcon left > Adobe recently. > > We felt that the compiler shouldn't be doing font embedding because it > is inefficient to transcode the font more than once. > > - Gordon > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 2:02 PM > To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: [FALCON] Fonts Question > > > > > On 11/12/12 1:46 PM, "Gordon Smith" <gosm...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > Then you would have a compiler that you couldn't distribute because > > it required Adobe JARs. > No, that's the way Apache Flex distributes MXMLC today. Everything > compiles and runs, but embedding doesn't work if you haven't gone out > separately and downloaded the Adobe font jars. > > I'm just wondering if how hard it would be to re-purpose some of that > code from MXMLC into Falcon. > > > > > - Gordon > > > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe Systems, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > >
