Ran into a strange thing today. Authoring an application on a Mac (already I’m in foreign territory), needed to use the font “Universal Greek with Math PI”. But when I make a text field and assign that font to it, nothing shows up. We’re not talking about an embedding problem or System.codepage problem. This is in the IDE. In a static text field. If I break the text apart to a shape, nothing is left on stage. Yet, I can copy the “non-existent” text and paste it into another app and see it. This is happening on more than one machine. Tried some other fonts, it also happens with “Universal News with Commercial PI”.
After some searching I did find that these fonts are OpenType fonts and that OpenType fonts have some issues with various applications, including Freehand. Didn’t see much data on Flash though.
Anyone know anything about this? Anyone have this font and can test it and let me know if you have the same issue?