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here are some articles i was interested in this week…

> Kevin Lynch’s Web 2.0 Keynote / Flash Catalyst Demo at Mike Chambers

> The Flash Blog » Get Flex Builder for zero clams

> aM laboratory ToneMatrix

> prag·mat·ic Remote object reference pooling in Flex

> Is Your ActionScript 3.0 Design Good? : The Three Keys of Good Design | ActionScript 3 Design Patterns

> A Skimmer With Great Potential

> Paradise Paintball from facebook featured in InsideSocialGames.com | diamondTearz

> Adobe Labs: Pixel Bender Prerelease 6 Released on Labs

> Kevin Goldsmith: More Cool Pixel Bender Experiments

> 12 Tips on Creating Low Polygon Models « Professional Papervision3D Book

> Flex 3/4 Font Embedding: CFF-DefineFont4 vs DefineFont3

> [Papervision3D and Box2D] 3D Ball Simulation | ClockMaker Demos

> 5 UK Flash experts discuss the Flash Platform and Flash community | Serge Jespers

> Design Pattern Principles for ActionScript 3.0: The Open/Closed Principle | ActionScript 3 Design Patterns

> Building the Flintstones Car for Papervision3D « Professional Papervision3D Book

> Build your first Facebook application | Adobe Developer Connection

> Andrew Shorten » BBC Formula 1 coverage demonstrates how Flash is evolving

> Actionscript Media Framework | dreamsocket.com

> Adobe Flash Platform & Facebook Platform | Adobe Developer Connection

> Why you keep getting a computeSpectrum Security Error | Danny Miller

> The Shortest Path From Flash to Unity3D - ein Knol-Artikel von Manuel Saint-Victor

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…

> Heat Maps & More In Flash « Deceptive Resolution

> Adobe AIR Bible Now Available! | Flash Speaks Actionscript

> Seb Lee-Delisle: The FOTB08 carnival leaves town

> The Flash Blog » Flash on the Beach 2008 Recap

> AudioTool’s Private Parts Slides at blog.joa-ebert.com - Blog of Joa Ebert

> Flash on the iPhone confirmed? We said nothing new! | Serge Jespers

> ini na!! » Blog Archive » Externalize Font with font subset, 
font weight and font style at the same time

> Quasimondo - Mario Klingemann's Flash Blog: 
Copy to Clipboard stopped working?

> Papervision3D - Now Featuring Frustum Clipping | zupko.info

> Lost In Actionscript - Shane McCartney
Tips on how to write efficient AS3

> Flexperiments » Now Available: ASDebugger 2.1

> Adobe - Developer Center : 
Using the Flash Media Interactive Server Feature Explorer

> Sönke Rohde » Maven & Flex-mojos

> Blender to .as3 Exporter for Papervision 3D, Away3D and Sandy3D Updated

> Using Flex compiled code within Flash! : Wichers Laboratories Inc.

> Intrinsic Library maker for Flash CS3 : Wichers Laboratories Inc.

> Flash Magazine > News > Get ready for a ride in a mine far, far Away

> How to Use the ASUnit Framework to Write Unit Tests for ActionScript - Ntt.cc