How to make a font for a flash game

[jaimito]

Hi everyone:

I have a question. At my studio we started to develop a game in flash and I have some doubts about fonts. I would like to know wich is the best way to work with stylised fonts on flash, I mean, fonts with an outline, shadow, gradient, etc...
Do I need to make my own vectorized font on Illustrator and make a ttf file? Or do I need to make a png sheet with an xml?...

Thanks for your help. Peace!

[Havegum]

not too sure what you're asking for here, but I'm guessing you've made a font in flash, and want to convert it to a font file?

If so, there's a few ways to do so. I dont' know if illustrator can make font files (if it can, please tell!) but I do know that certain font programs can vectorize a png image and make a letter that way.
As far as I know, there's no easy way (if any way at all) to make a font with gradients, but I could be wrong

[CloudObler]

Hello, welcome to my house. If you have already drawn some stylised fonts in flash with shadows, outlines or gradients then converting it to a ttf will remove the gradient or shadows or and colours you've used because font files (or ttfs at least) only hold the shape of the letters and no colour or any other information.

If you want to maintain your special colours or shadows or other effects you've drawn then you should convert each character into a graphic symbol then you'll have to drag them in from the library and position them yourself.

If you haven't drawn shadows or used gradients on your font then you could create a ttf file from them. To do this you would have to export the characters as a png image and use a program like the one sir Havegum has linked and import your drawing into it and then crop and edit all the characters so that the program can then export your font as a ttf file. This could take up to an hour or longer depending on how pro you are at importing, cropping and clicking buttons on font making programs.

Ok cya dood B)