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here are some articles i was interested in this week…

> Richard Leggett on New Media - CSS and AS3: Careful with Whitespace

> Seb Lee-Delisle Papervision3D wormhole in your webcam!

> Sönke Rohde » Include namespace in component declaration

> The 25-Line ActionScript Contest » And the winner is…

> EarthBrowser: Free EarthBrowser 3D website traffic visualizer

> Flash Player 10: 48KHz Sound Playback Bug (and Fix) | blackcj.com

> Advanced Papervision3D with Carlos Ulloa « Papervision3D

> Andrew Shorten » The Flash Platform in numbers

> Sönke Rohde » Swiz 0.0.5 Released

> aM laboratory - ToneWheels

> Adam Flater - Flex Blog: Typinator and Flex

> gBlog: Synchronized Timeline Animations in GTween

> Iterator Pattern Example: Developing a Webpage Scraper | ActionScript 3 Design Patterns

> MXML + ANT + ASDOC = And then some - wezside

> gotoandlearn.com - Introduction to Flex: Part 1

> zefrank.com: want to try something hard? voice drawing....

> Comet & Actionscript: 7 days of crisis, flash jobmarket in Europe

> Adam Flater - Flex Blog: Cairngorm Top 5 Tips - Number 5 - The AnnounceFaultEvent

> DreamingWell iPhones with Flash Player 9.0.124 spotted on RIAStats.com

> Google Map Wormhole in Gumbo Air (Flex 4) « Professional Papervision3D Book

> FlashVars for EVERYONE! | JADBOX: Web Application Musings

> Pixel Bender Effects + Video = Killer Runtime Effects

> Aral Balkan - Weird SWFObject sizing issue in Firefox

> ActionScript 3 Reference for iPhone at Mike Chambers

> Andrew Shorten » Enterprise RIA Series - part 5: Real-life enterprise RIAs

> ActionScript 3.0 Abstract Factory Design Pattern:
Multiple Products and Factories | ActionScript 3 Design Patterns

> Seb Lee-Delisle Papervision training course

> Steve Jobs back in 1984 | Peter Elst

> Papervision3D Air Ship with SpringCamera3D | ClockMaker Demos

> Flex and Flash Developer - Jesse Warden dot Kizz-ohm »
Saving Images Out of Flash/Flex Without Losing Quality

> Flash CS4 Spherical Panorama (animating uvtData) « Professional Papervision3D Book

> K-Lib Actionscript 3.0 API for Adobe Kuler at GFX Complex

> Aral Balkan - Adobe AIR 1.5 OS X shift-space bug workaround

> Adobe’s Rich Internet Applications Roadmap | Peter Elst

here are some articles i was interested in this week…

> Flashteroids 3D « Daily Papervision3d

> 10 Awesome Ways to Integrate Twitter With Your Website - NETTUTS

> Flash And Image Processing at blog.joa-ebert.com - Blog of Joa Ebert

> senocular.com : News: Equality (==) - Simple, Right?

> EarthBrowser: Simple solution for MOUSE_WHEEL events on Mac

> Spring physics powered 3D camera for Away3D and Papervision at Agit8

> gskinner.com: gBlog: Preview: GTween beta 5, Now With More Sequencing.

> ScaleNine Blog »  Objectified

> Amy's Flex Diary: Is the HorizontalList faster than an HBox with a Repeater?

> Eismann-SF News Augmented Reality in Flash

> The Official Flex Team Blog: Announcing a Flex Community Feedback Forum

> Galvan on Flash: Concerns and issues with Flash CS4

> FDT 3 Actionscript Editor - Blog » MXML feature free for our customers

> Zarkov Compiler Wrapper Update available (0.8.3.4) | BigSource Blog

> The 25-Line ActionScript Contest » January 2009 Finalists!

> Mike Huntington Blog » The internet will soon fade!!! 2009 is year of Virtual Worlds

> What is a Flex Camp? (and Why the Name Shouldn't Change) | Remote Synthesis

> Galvan on Flash

> Andrew Shorten » Enterprise RIA Series - part 4: Development considerations and best practices

> Amethyst, a free Flex authoring solution for Visual Studio > Flash Magazine

> JOY Model Management « Daily Papervision3d

> Ribbit Developer Platform - Ribbit’s ‘How To’ Videos

> Balsamiq Mockups: Mocking Up Tomorrow's Web Applications | Flash Speaks Actionscript

> Gaia 3.0 now available for download | flex and flash developer | steven sacks

> Pyro : a video player API for Flash at Agit8

> ThoughtPile « Daily Papervision3d

> Accessing SVN repositories with ActionScript | Doug McCune

> Degrafa » Introducing Degrafa Auto Shapes

> Adobe publishing RTMP spec at Mike Chambers

> Gary Gilbert's Technology Blog: Adobe Flash on the I-Phone?

> Flip A Page With These Flash Page Flippers | Flash Speaks Actionscript

> Adobe - Developer Center : Unit testing with mock objects in ActionScript 3.0

> Marco Casario | RIAvolutionize the web: Working with AIR Application and
Window menus (The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 AIR Development Highlight)

> InfoQ: Top 10 Mistakes when building Flex Applications

> Aral Balkan - Microsoft employees donate over $200,000 to
Presidential Inauguration. Event to be broadcast via Silverlight.

> FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 6: The Exciting Conclusion - InsideRIA

> Jay Armstrong - Flashes of Interest: Flash Online Help Updated

> Kevin Goldsmith: Some cool experiments with Pixel Bender

> Flashcomguru.com: Microsoft Launches Innovative Video Player

> Aral Balkan - How to: embed dfont fonts on OS X in Adobe Flex and AIR apps

> EarthBrowser: A 3D virtual globe for your website

> How to use Text Layout Framework in Flex 3.2 or AIR 1.5 : Mihai CORLAN

> Presidential Inaugural Committee picks Silverlight. Rest of the world uses Flash. | Serge Jespers

hi folks,
this week i had to externalize fonts in an AS3 project. so i looked into my delicious links and found two very good tutorials, one by Troy Gardner on the TroyWorks blog and another one by Deden Ramadhan on the ini na!! blog.
in the first moment everything worked fine and i had no problems embedding the fonts, loading them and finally using them at runtime. i like how it works!
some days later i had to embed cyrillic, chinese and japanese characters from an ArialUnicodeMS.ttf font. then i always got the error message: “Error: Unable to transcode ArialUnicodeMS.ttf.”, at compile time. the first idea was that there’s something wrong with the ArialUnicodeMS.ttf file, because it works fine with other font files. so i tried another ArialUnicodeMS.ttf file from a colleague, but the result was the same error message. using google wasn’t that much successful, but i got a hint from a colleague that
flex includes several font managers to handle embedded fonts, exactly three. here you can find some informations about the three managers in the livedocs.

so the solution for my problem was to use the flash.fonts.AFEFontManager and everything works fine. to change the font manager you can simply use the compiler argument:

-managers flash.fonts.AFEFontManager

for your mxmlc compiler.

here are some articles i was interested in this week…

> A Surplus of Custom AS3 Classes And Libraries? | Flash Speaks Actionscript

> PureMVC - iPure? PureMVC Objective C Port Released!

> Scott Janousek »
Flash and Silverlight running on iPhone (via Citrix Receiver Client and Virtualization Server)

> Adobe Labs: XMP Library for ActionScript Released on Labs

> jonnymac blog » Flash on the Beach Miami Cancelled

> Flash Player 10 Text Engine by Thibault Imbert < ByteArray.org

> 3D in Adobe Flash render engine future

> Flex Regular Expression Tester - source code | Remus Stratulat - On the Stre@m

> Paul Burnett - madblog » Flash Downunder - Pixel Bender Filters

> Take a Design Pattern to Work Part IV:
Establishing a Design Pattern Foundation | ActionScript 3 Design Patterns

> dispatchEvent()™ » Flex 3 Tips, Tricks, and Gotchas (A Series)

> gskinner.com: gBlog: Editable Multi-Field Text Flow in Flash!

> Andrew Shorten » New Adobe video component for Flex

Flash developer is a high-demand job - Business - MiamiHerald.com

> 13 Reasons for Flash Developers to Learn Unity 3D | diamondTearz

> A Weekend with Unity3D- I feel like I cheated on Flash! | diamondTearz

> Tweensy: There's A New AS3 Tweening Engine In Town | Flash Speaks Actionscript

> Dale Rankine: Flash animated feature film wins Golden Globe Award

> FaceDetector Class by Thibault Imbert ] < ByteArray.org

> Campbell Anderson » Debugging Flash/Flex remoting with AppPuncher

> The Flash Blog » Want to use my code in commercial projects?

> Down the Foxhole - 12 Amazing Flash Showcase Sites

> Adobe Labs - Stratus

> Open Video Player > Flash Magazine

> Design Patterns in ActionScript-Observer - Ntt.cc

> What Do You Consider Yourself to Be? | News on web tools, technology and other cool apps

> Multitouch Screen Using Flash +1 Adobe -1 Microsoft - Rob Gonda's Blog

> Design Patterns in ActionScript–Facade - Ntt.cc

> Christophe Herreman » Introducing AS3 Reflect

> Cache Me If You Can | zupko.info

> CS4 Creating a Parametric Particle Field « Professional Papervision3D Book

> Bustin Lib; Helpful ActionScript by Alex Bustin

> Design Patterns in ActionScript-Singleton - Ntt.cc

> Big Spaceship Labs » Pretty Loaded

> Mad Vertices’ First Papervision 3D Contest | News on web tools, technology and other cool apps

> There Be Pixels! | Psyked

> Sleepy Design: [Away3D] JigLib Flash 3D Physics Engine

> Sti Media: The Source: Flash Media Server 3.5 Released!

here are some articles i was interested in this week…

> BUG: AS3 Sound.isBuffering « Kenny Bunch

> GraphicMaina: a Network for Free Flash, Photoshop and Vector

> Using Custom Primitives in Papervision « Professional Papervision3D Book

> WS-Blog » WSPluginSwitcher: Cocoa based tool for switching Flash plug-in on OS X

> Take a Design Pattern to Work Part I: Identifying the Problem | ActionScript 3 Design Patterns

> 10 RIA Predictions for 2009

> Setting up a Rubik’s Cube in Papervision « Professional Papervision3D Book

> Soundstep | SomaUI Open Source Flash

> Happy birthday BigSource! | BigSource Blog

> 2008 In Review - Flash Platform Shortcomings | Chad Udell

> How can Adobe make learning ActionScript 3 easier? at Mike Chambers

> Text Layout Framework Team: ActionScript Pagination Example

> Solution: AS3 Security Error #2122 with 300 redirects | steven sacks

> Unity3D \m/’s - Adobe should buy them. « RockOnFlash \m/ :: John Grden

> Measuring Drawing API 2.0 performance by Thibault Imbert < ByteArray.org

> GreenSock » Sneak Peek - What’s Next for the GreenSock Tweening Platform

> iPhone App Reviews - AIR application | Peter Elst

> The Fancy Pants Adventure World 2 | Armor Games

> Adobe, Intel and Broadcom bringing
Flash and AIR to a TV, set-top box or Blu-ray player near you. | Serge Jespers

> Drawing boxes on the fly on Box2D : Emanuele Feronato

> All Flashers and Flexers Want This | Flashmech

> Andrew Shorten » Enterprise RIA Series - part 1: What is an RIA?

> Andrew Shorten » Enterprise RIA Series - part 2: The role of an RIA in the enterprise

> Geolocation in Papervision3D - Plus some Quaternion Stuff | zupko.info

> Andrew Shorten » Adobe TV video tutorial - Skinning Flex applications with Fireworks

> Away3D Basics 6 - Materials and Light (Part 1) > Flash Magazine

> Sprouts now supports Flex Debugger (FDB), Flex Compiler SHell (FCSH) and Continuous Integration (CI)!

> SomaText standalone | Soundstep, daily ActionScript.

> Take a Design Pattern to Work Part III : Loosening Up | ActionScript 3 Design Patterns

> Flash Catalyst Tutorial

> 10 Most Bizarre Programming Languages Ever Created - NETTUTS

> Importance of Event.clone « Kenny Bunch

> Flash: Added To Stage and cacheAsBitmap tip : TroyWorks

> Aral Balkan - Why learning ColdFusion today is a waste of time.

> Wait till I come! » Using Twitter as a data provider to automatically fill forms

> The Flash Blog » Flash is being redefined

> Paul Gregoire’s Blog » Media manipulation in realtime with Xuggler

> Flex Best Practices Presentations

> Soma Tutorial - From SomaUI to FDT | Soundstep, daily ActionScript.

here are some articles i was interested in this week…

> The Flash Blog » Flasher Magazine Issue 1 is now live!

> 25 Line ActionScript contest entries source posted | BIT-101 Blog

> Unity3D vs Flash Or Not- Blogosphere Roundup | diamondTearz

> Gravity Tutorial for iPhone Part 1 | BIT-101 Blog

> Gravity Tutorial for iPhone Part 2 | BIT-101 Blog

> Gravity Tutorial for iPhone Part 3 | BIT-101 Blog

> The Flash Blog » Watch gotoAndLearn on your plasma TV

> 30+ Great Adobe AIR Apps for Designers and Developers

> Unity Versus Flash - Is Unity Really a Flash Competitor? | Chris Allen

> How Adobe Can Get Flash Applications on the iPhone | Chris Allen

> 8 misconceptions about Flash video | Serge Jespers

> Adobe Flash CS4| Deco Tool | Layers Magazine

> TI-8X Emulator Written in ActionScript 3- That’s Hot! | diamondTearz

> Adobe - Developer Center : Google Analytics for simplified tracking of rich media websites

> Flash Video Technology - Blog Ing. Fabio Sonnati 2007

> The Flash Blog » Choosing a Flash tweening library

> From ActionScript to iPhone | BIT-101 Blog

> WiiFlash, WiiServer, Wiimote on a Netbook: Samsung NC1 : TroyWorks

> ActionScript 3: Bitwise Flags | funciton communications - blog