Thanks alot of this post….. It is the clearest explaination of PB for flash developers which i have found since i began looking for help.

Kudos and thanks for sharing!

@font-face {
src: url(“arial_1.ttf”);
fontFamily: myArialEmbeded;
}

mx|Tree {
fontFamily: myArialEmbeded;
fontLookup: embeddedCFF;
fontSize: 12;
}

and here is how I load Tree in Pashto.mxml:

Again, on Windows – everything looks great. But on Mac it still looks like a different font is being loaded. Maybe i am doing something different and the arial_1.ttf font is not being embedded at all.

Thank you for your help,
Sukhrob

If you are actually embedding the font in your SWF, you should see no difference from Mac to PC. If you aren’t embedding the font, and just specifying that you want to use Arial – you probably would see quite the difference from Mac to PC.

Arial is a huge font set, it has tons of characters, so it wouldn’t surprise me that all the characters you need would be on Windows. On the Mac, you probably wouldn’t have Arial installed, and it would default to the next closest font (probably Helvetica). I don’t believe that Helvetica has many characters, so you would probably end up seeing missing characters.

If you don’t actually have a font referenced in your CSS file, like so:
@font-face {
src: url(“../assets/MyriadWebPro.ttf”);
fontFamily: myFontFamily;
}

…then you aren’t embedding it, and Flash will use what it finds on the system.

If you’re sure you’re embedding it, then I don’t know the problem! Could it be that whatever data source you’re reading your Pashto text from is mapping characters differently on the Mac vs PC? Like for example, if on the PC, your unicode value was 56 it would pull from slot 56 in your font. But if on the Mac, your data source said that the same character was value 109 – well, you have the same font embedded, so, it wouldn’t be shown correctly since your character is still at slot 56.

I hope that helps! Sorry I don’t know more!

Thank you for your great post. I am trying to use flash text engine with MX Tree Component to be able to see Pashto script, which is one of the complicated Arabic scripts. Everything works great on Windows, but when I test the project on MAC i have some problems with certain letters of the Pashto Alphabet. Do you know what might be the problem? Should I embed the font somehow specifically for Mac (I use Arial font with this Tree Component).
I would really appreciate any help.

Thank you,
Sukhrob