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Here’s a quick tip — even though it was far from quick to figure out in the first place. In fact, I’ve been banging my head on the desk over this one for days.

Ever have a dynamic text box in flash that will show text when it uses device fonts, but not if you do embed any of the font? I couldn’t even get Arial to show up! Only if I switched it to static text, or dropped the embedded characters would anything show up. At first I thought it a problem with the font — it’s one of the few OpenType fonts I use and I couldn’t remember if I’d ever tried embedding OpenType in flash before. So I even went so far as to convert the font (via VirualPC -> Ubuntu -> FontForge). Nothing. I tried converting to PostScript and TTF.

The solution? It turns out the text box was set to a left-margin of a negative amount. I changed this to zero, and viola. Everything works — OpenType and all.

Check your margins!

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