Re: [Ming-users] Problem with FDB fonts

[Darren C. <da...@dc...>]

> So, a question - does Ming supports wide code fonts?

I've successfully built and used the KochiGothic font to display Japanese.

It was quite a few months back and all I remember is I had to jump through 
lots of hoops.  Looking in the subdirectories where I have the font, I seem 
to be using ttf2fft (its readme included below [1]). I think I was following 
instructions in the ming wiki?

I'm also using the cvs version of ming; I don't know if wide-code support 
was added after 0.3 was released?

[2] below shows the php script I used to test Japanese from both ming and 
from actionscript. The text.2.txt file was in UTF-8 encoding. Notice how I 
have to use the UTF8 versions of functions.

Incidentally after a biggish project I came to the conclusion that fonts in 
ming is just too inflexible, and now always use actionscript to draw text if 
at all possible.

Darren



[1]:
ttf2fft is a part of JGenerator.

   This product includes software developed by Dmitry Skavish
   (sk...@us..., http://www.flashgap.com/).

See attached file 'LICENCE'.

Original codes are fetched from CVS.
   cvs -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/jgen login
   cvs -z3 -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/jgen co 
jgen/ttf2fft

Some modifications by goto <ha...@li...>:
- makefile is attached.
- ttf2fft.cxx is modified for freetype 2.10 or higher.
   Ref:
     * ttf2fft problem and patch
 
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=830694&group_id=18365&atid=118365
    or
     * ttf2fft-Kern0_Pair.patch
       http://www.momonga-linux.org/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/pkgs/jaming/
- ttf2fft.cxx is modified to fix a multibyte charmap bug.



[2]:
<?php
   $s=file_get_contents("text.2.txt");
   if(!$s)exit;

	$w=600;
	$h=300;

ming_useswfversion(6);

   $f = new SWFFont("kg.fdb");

   $t = new SWFText();
   $t->setFont($f);
   $t->setColor(0xff, 0xff, 0);
   $t->setHeight(60);
   $t->addUTF8String($s);

   $m = new SWFMovie();
   $m->setDimension($w, $h);

   $i = $m->add($t);
   $i->moveTo(($w/2)-$t->getUTF8Width($s)/2, ($h/2)+$t->getAscent()/2);

$code='';
$code.='this.createTextField("mytxt",1,0,0,200,200);';
$code.='this.mytxt.text="'.$s.'";';
$code.='stop();';	//No looping

   $m->add(new SWFAction($code));

   $m->save("text.2.swf",9);	//Compressed
?>