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From: Gordon Smith <gosmith@adobe.com>
To: "flex-dev@incubator.apache.org" <flex-dev@incubator.apache.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:46:54 -0800
Subject: RE: [FALCON] Fonts Question
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Then you would have a compiler that you couldn't distribute because it requ=
ired Adobe JARs.

- Gordon

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Harui [mailto:aharui@adobe.com]=20
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" <gosmith@adobe.com> wrote:

> For Apache Flex, you should require or download fontswf as a=20
> prerequisite and use it to turn the font files used by the Mustella=20
> 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-license=
d font jars.  Would it be a lot of work to have Falcon call those jars dire=
ctly?
>=20
> - Gordon
>=20
>=20
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Harui [mailto:aharui@adobe.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 1:01 PM
> To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: [FALCON] Fonts Question
>=20
> Ugh, I knew I was forgetting something.  There is no embedded font=20
> support for Falcon.  I'm not even sure fontswf will work.  Gordon may kno=
w more.
>=20
> I was going to look into copying code from MXMLC to do some of the=20
> font embedding, but either way I think we do need to remove any=20
> dependencies on Adobe (fontswf is also Adobe licensed) and write our=20
> own transcoder.  I'm told it is straightforward for CFF fonts, but it=20
> might be more work for the older fonts.
>=20
> That said, looking forward at Flex on JS, is there font embedding in HTML=
/CSS?
>=20
>=20
> On 11/12/12 1:39 AM, "Cyrill Zadra" <cyrill.zadra@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
>> Recognized that the mustella test swf compiled with falcon use=20
>> different font then the ones compiled with the legacy compiler. That=20
>> tends to quite a lot of test failures so I started to investigate and=20
>> found following statement in the wiki:
>>=20
>>> Falcon includes transcoders for the various types of embedded=20
>>> assets,
>> which read, for example, a PNG file and convert it to the form=20
>> required inside a SWF. It does NOT support font trancoding, because=20
>> this relies on proprietary Adobe technology which Adobe has not=20
>> donated to Apache.
>> Instead, you must use a separate fontswf tool to convert your font=20
>> files to SWF files and then embed the fonts from them.
>>=20
>> Does that mean we have to generate all the ttf fonts to swf fonts in=20
>> mustella?
>>=20
>> And in the falcon compiler code I've found the follwoing method in=20
>> Class org.apache.flex.compiler.config.Configuration:
>>=20
>>    @Config(advanced =3D true)
>>     @Mapping({"compiler", "fonts", "managers"})
>>     @Arguments("manager-class")
>>     @InfiniteArguments
>>     @FlexOnly
>>     public void setCompilerFontsManagers(ConfigurationValue cv,=20
>> List<String> list)
>>     {
>>         // intentionally do nothing here as feature removed, but=20
>> don't annotate as removed
>>         // as to not generate warnings for flex-config's which still=20
>> set this options
>>     }
>>=20
>> Is the -compiler.fonts.managers argument just not implemented yet in=20
>> falcon or does this argument make no sense in the falcon compiler?
>>=20
>> cyrill
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> --
> Alex Harui
> Flex SDK Team
> Adobe Systems, Inc.
> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
>=20

--
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui