Viewing text in Flash, msttcorefonts

Forum: Multimedia
Topic: Viewing text in Flash, msttcorefonts
started by: jhsu

Posted by jhsu on Sep. 06 2007,04:06

I did some googling, and the reason I can't see the text at the end of Youtube videos is that I can't view text in Flash. Some more googling revealed that I need to install something called msttcorefonts in order to view the text in Flash animations.

How do I install msttcorefonts? Is there a myDSL extension that covers this?

Posted by curaga on Sep. 06 2007,14:39

There cannot be one, as their license only allows distribution in the original .cab files.. You could compile cabextract and download the cabs from msttcorefonts.sourceforge.net..

Posted by jhsu on Sep. 08 2007,03:50

Quote (curaga @ Sep. 06 2007,10:39)

There cannot be one, as their license only allows distribution in the original .cab files.. You could compile cabextract and download the cabs from msttcorefonts.sourceforge.net..

What is the exact procedure for this? The first stumbling block is that I get a 404 error at msttcorefonts.sourceforge.net.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Sep. 08 2007,04:59

Try a web search, or on sourceforge, etc. On sf it looks like it's under corefonts.

Posted by curaga on Sep. 08 2007,11:30

oops.. Well compiling cabextract follows the normal, configure make make install, then just get the cabs and use cabextract to extract the fonts. Then maybe move the fonts to a better place..