Comments on: font embedding tip – “Error: Unable to transcode…”

By: Mr.doob

Mr.doob — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:52:11 +0000

Life saver. Thanks!

By: Trostik

Trostik — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:38:07 +0000

Thanks m8 !!! That was helpful.

By: sunnie

sunnie — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:38:47 +0000

hi there, i googled ‘transcoding problems flash catalyst’ and your site came up. Im not sure if your ttf file issue was similar to a message that came up when I tried running my project, as it came up with this:

Flash Catalyst cannot run this project because of an error in the code. To find the error, switch to the Code workspace and look in the Problems panel.

I checked the code workspace and it says:
exception during transcoding: Failed to grab pixels for image…

I tried re-saving the files but no luck! do you have any ideas?!! cheers

By: Tomasino

Tomasino — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:06:09 +0000

By the way, I ran into the issue of Flex failing to transcode ArialUnicodeMS myself a few months back. For what it’s worth I believe it’s due to the sheer size of the font. That puppy has so many characters I think Flex is timing out on the operation. We ripped it apart in a font editor and cut out the Korean faces (it was for a Japanese/Chinese app) and Flex took it fine.

By: robin

robin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:10:52 +0000

very good to know. thanks a lot fabi

cheers.rob