Re: [Swftools-common] Can Font2SWF be used for making sIFR fonts?

[Matthias Kramm]

On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 08:02:44PM -0400, Brett Bonfield wrote:
> For the sake of 
> comparison, the SWF file used in the official sIFR example page can be 
> found here
> 
> http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/files/sifr/2.0/tradegothic.swf

Hm. For one, that file uses EDITTEXT tags, while font2swf just
generates DEFINETEXT2 tags.
I think it should be possible to mimic such files with swfc, though.
Load a font of your choice with .font, create the text with .edittext
and .put it into the scene (see edittext section in the swfc tutorial).

There's also a huge block of ActionScript code in the file, though. Not
sure what it does, but if that's something you need as well: I believe
Ming has a tool for decompiling actionscript- run it over the file,
and then insert the generated source into an .action block in your .sc
script.

Greetings

Matthias