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FontSwffer 1.1

Mikea — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:30:42 +0000

You may remember, in August last year, I released FontSwffer - a tool to simplify the creation of font SWFs for Flash. Several minor updates and bug-fixes have been released over the last few months, and now, I think, it's time for a 'dot' release. So, here comes FontSwffer 1.1 Along with some little improvements, [...]

Strobe Media Playback: Wrapped

Mikea — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:00:25 +0000

Strobe Media Playback (SMP) has quickly become my Flash media player of choice. Built by Adobe - using the Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) - it's simple to use, yet powerful; and thanks to being open source, the project is available for [...]

FOTB… day 3

admin — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:54:41 +0000

It's a little late, but here's our round-up of day three at flash on the beach... Serge Jespers - A touch of fresh AIR Serge is one of Adobe's Flash Platform 'evangelists', so was eager to show some of the new features in Air 2. Multi touch gestures, global error handling, opening files with their [...]

FOTB… day 2

admin — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:31:45 +0000

Jon Howard - Where in the world? Intercontinental ballistic flash Slightly impaired by the Monday nights drinks, we made it to Jon's globe based presentation. He showed some great techniques for lat & long mapping and a genius way of using excel to calculate equations for camera movement. Joa Ebert - 1 1 7 11 [...]

FOTB… day 1

Mikea — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:30:52 +0000

Two of us have hit Brighton for this year's Flash on the Beach conference! We'll be doing a few short roundups of the talks we've seen over the three days. There's loads of great speakers, so I hope we've picked the right ones to see! Official site Things kicked off with the Adobe Keynote which [...]

FontSwffer

Mikea — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:44:20 +0000

Creating font-asset SWFs for Flash used to be a bit of a pain. But now, there's FontSwffer. FontSwffer is an Air 2 native application for Windows and OSX that lets you configure, build, and preview your font SWFs all in one place. All you need to do is set-up the fonts you want to embed [...]

Apparat – A custom Matryoshka

Mikea — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:36:20 +0000

A few weeks ago Joa Ebert (@joa) released an update to the Apparat Reducer, adding the option of LZMA compression to further reduce your SWF file-sizes. It works by squeezing your original SWF with LZMA compression, and injecting that data as a ByteArray into a wrapper SWF - hence the Matryoshka moniker. The Matryoshka handles [...]

Blend modes with Pixel Bender – an update…

Mikea — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:14:13 +0000

I posted this blend mode stuff a long time ago, but the interface was awful and it slipped most people by. So, I've packaged all the code up into a handy SWC and made a better example application for you to play with. Here's the test page, and here's the SWC. As well as clicking [...]