Comments on: CS5.5 Flash PROBLEM: TextField editing (with AS3) leads to BAFFLING MYSTERIES OF DARK MAGIC!

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:48:23 +0000

Very grateful to have found this. Made perfect sense when I read the solution. Thank you. After some days of coding some tricky AS3, it seemed to have broken. And now here is the answer.
Cheers, Stephen

By: Nick Schneble

Nick Schneble — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:00:52 +0000

Hi Warren,

One, I want to thank you for writing this post. Although you didn’t find a solution, your description lead me to figure it out.

Here’s what’s up:

In a nutshell, this occurs when the embedded font(s) you’re using doesn’t have all the character ranges included when you publish it.

To fix:

- Select your embedded font in CS5.5
- Bring up the context menu and select “Properties…”
- Under “Character ranges:”, make sure “All” is checked

DARK MAGIC DEFEATED.

Nick

By: Oleksiy

Oleksiy — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:22:12 +0000

I believ it is because of embedded fonts.

Char ‘d’ is displayed because it was present in original string – chars was embedded…

you should use embedd font with all needed chars included.

How it works in depth is mystery to mee. But i know there are people there on the internet who knows. They even understand difference between TTF and CFF (or how it is)…

By: Warren Blyth

Warren Blyth — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:34:40 +0000

http://infiniteskills.com/blog/2011/04/adobe-flash-cs5-tutorial-working-with-fonts-in-classic-text/
is a video I found, googling for “CS5.5 textField AS3 editing”)

By: Warren Blyth

Warren Blyth — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:29:43 +0000

Some links that don’t seem to solve my specific problem, but dance around similar things? maybe? (recording these for reference, so when I return to work next week, i can resume wasting time at the exact same point!)

http://www.capstrat.com/insights/blog/having-trouble-embedded-fonts-and-html-text-flash-cs5/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2770055/flash-cs5-screwed-up-all-my-textfields-how-can-i-correct-this

(I was googling with “CS5 AS3 TextField gibberish” and “CS5.5 textField broken” – if these are not the best ways to google this problem please let me know!)