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Just hours after Adobe released the Flash CS3 Air Compiler, they have released an update to the Flash Player.
Here is what got updated/added:
- Support for H.264 video and HE-AAC audio codecs
- Multi-core support for vector rendering.
- Full screen mode with hardware scaling.
- Flash Player cache…
- more
Seems the Adobe Labs has been very busy these last few weeks.
Adobe has released a CS3 Update which now offers the ability to build AIR applications in Flash CS3. Now is the time, start developing some sweet AIR applications!
The Adobe® Integrated Runtime (AIR) update for Flash® CS3 beta 1 software will allow you to package and preview .air application files directly within Adobe Flash CS3; leveraging your existing Flash development skills to build desktop-enabled distributed applications and experiences with the Adobe AIR™ framework.
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/AIR:Flash_CS3_Professional_Update
I have been loading Fonts for a project for over 2 hours now and I am about 70% done. Basically I needed an SWF library of fonts to be used in an application I am developing, problem is the font needs to be registered (loaded) in order for the “New Font” option to see it. Now on the Mac I found adding/deleting fonts is easy, but very time consuming.
This is all being done in AS2, of course my love of Flash comes in to AS3, where I was able to (just for testing) create this little PHP script that reads a directory of fonts and creates the embed tags for me.. figured I would share it, so here it is.
Again, this is ONLY for AS3 (in Flex).
<?php
$dir = opendir('./fonts/');
while (false !== ($file = readdir($dir)))
{
if ($file != "." && $file != "..")
{
print "@font-face {\n\tsrc:url(\"fonts/" . $file . "\");\n\tfontFamily: myFont;\n\tflashType: true;\n}\n";
}
}
closedir($dir);
?>
It repeatedly prints out import blocks, like this:
@font-face {
src:url("fonts/LT_13171.ttf");
fontFamily: myFont;
flashType: true;
}
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While working on a Flash project this week I came across a nice bug in the printing process. Basically you create a couple of shapes on the stage, call the print process and you get a printed page.. well thats how it is suppose to work.
However I found out that the local version of Flash doesn’t print the colors correctly and I did have one of my developer friends test this with the same results.
After a few hours wasted trying stuff I published the movie and went on with the rest of the project. Well today I tested it all live and found out the colors were perfect.
Local print results
Live (server) print results
You will notice I got a nice purplish blob and no V2 component label when printed locally. Just wanted to put this out there so you don’t waste time testing code like I had to.
