Hi: I have an application based on ming+perl here: http://pattie.fe.up.pt/i_know_that_artist/ It is a graph drawing thing using last.fm's data. It works great most of the times (try U2), but I found out that there is a (not so) small catch. Because the "default" ming applications (Bitstream) don't include japanese, chinese, etc.. fonts the flash program crashes when it gets a japanese, cyrillic, etc... character. I found that after a while, but that seems to be the problem. Try "kraftwerk" on the previous application The solution would be to get a font with glyphs for all the unicode chars that can be read by ming. I read a few things on the web about converting ttf using ttftofft and then using makefdb but it does not work for me (osx and ubuntu), using a wide variety of ttf fonts in my system. The problem here is that ttftofft does not include all the glyphs in the swf file (just the regular western ones...). Is there a command line option for this...? OK! I read about an alternative to this procedure. Use Flash editor to generate a flash file, embed the fonts an then run makefdb on that file. I'm using flash mx and I do generate a file with several MB's but makefdb seems unable to produce ANY file. It only says the it got a certain version from the input file (i tried exporting from flash mx under versions 8 and 9)... Is there any catch? the swf files open correctly.... Then: I tried using alternative tools. I read about a font2swf tool that is distributed unde swftools package. Aperantly it is able to generate a wsf file from any ttf font. I can open swf in any flash player. Great! But did it work! No because the makefdb complains about that file (a wrong offset somewhere). I'm using the Code2002 unicode font (http://www.code2000.net/) and swf was generated by the font2swf tool from code2002.ttf: las@pattie:~/swf$ makefdb output.swf File version: 4 Writing font 'Code2002' to file 'font0.fdb' (7744458 bytes)... Failed: Permission denied Stream out of sync after parse of blocktype 778 (Confused Block Type). 7744501 but expecting 7887619. Error parsing block (unknown block type: 778) It still produces a fdb file (a large one as it should be) but ming does not open the file.... I'm about to give up.... . :( Can anyone point me to any swf unicode font files already pre- built..? :) Pleasssse... Cheers, LS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Ming-users mailing list Ming-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ming-users
