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Martin Rädlinger

Create Font SWFs easily in FDT

August 19th, 2009 • ActionScript, Flash, General

I created an ANT build file which lets you create font SWFs easily, it takes a class template as input, generates the actual class for the chosen font and compiles the corresponding swf. but enough talking … give it a try.

Download:

fontcreator.zip

Setup:

• import the zip file via “Import > Existing Projects.. > Select archive file”
• add flash nature: AS3, Flex 3/4 SDK
• run the ant build (don’t forget to select “Run in the same JRE as the workspace” in External Tools > JRE)

Steps:

select class template (you can create an own class template, save it in the template directory und select it here)

select font file (has to be in the assets/fonts directory)

specify a class name for your font class

the name for the font (thats the name you’ll use with TextFormat.font later on)

font weight

font style

mime type, normally ‘application/x-font’ should do the job

specifiy the chars to want to embed

 

That’s it. Now your font should get generated and afterwards be available in the deploy/fonts directory.

Tags: ActionScript, ANT, AS3, Flash

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13 Responses (Add Your Comment)

1. Carsten Knobloch August 19, 2009

   at 11:26 am

   Danke für dein HowTo :)

2. Alan August 20, 2009

   at 3:56 am

   Holy crap! An Ant task to aspire to….

3. yunzhong August 20, 2009

   at 5:57 am

   what’s short for PDT

4. Martin August 21, 2009

   at 12:01 pm

   @yunzhong: What do you mean?

   Maybe what FDT stands for? In this case: http://fdt.powerflasher.de

5. alex September 16, 2009

   at 12:47 am

   brilliant, as always ;)
   thanks for beeing patient with my font-misspelling problem ;)

6. derek October 27, 2009

   at 3:26 am

   This will be a very handy tool. I am currently getting the error:

   BUILD FAILED
   /Users/dr/Documents/workspace/fontcreator/build.xml:86: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error during compiling!

   Has anyone seen this when trying this ant script. I tried removing and re-adding the flash nature to no avail.

7. derek October 27, 2009

   at 3:29 am

   just a quick note for the fix. You will need to create the deploy/fonts folder in your project. Simple enough fix, this is great. thank you.

8. Tom November 5, 2009

   at 5:32 pm

   I get the error:
   Buildfile: D:\ProjectWork\fontcreator\build.xml
   1. input:
   2. create class file:
   3. compile font:

   BUILD FAILED
   D:\ProjectWork\fontcreator\build.xml:86: Problem: failed to create task or type fdt.launch.application
   Cause: The name is undefined.
   Action: Check the spelling.
   Action: Check that any custom tasks/types have been declared.
   Action: Check that any / declarations have taken place.

   Total time: 6 seconds

   Any ideas to why?

   Thanks :)

9. Martin November 12, 2009

   at 9:38 am

   Tom’s problem was that he didn’t select “Run in the same JRE as the workspace” in External Tools > JRE

10. alex January 19, 2010

    at 4:58 pm

    there is a problem with import from zip in the newer fdt versions.

    fdt cant find the linked SWCs.

    Fix 1: change them in as3_classpath
    Fix 2: unzip the project and copy the folders manually in a seupted fdt flash project

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