Determine the movieclip containing the missing font in Flash file

How do you determine where is the missing font in a FLA ? I mean, how do you find the movieclip with the missing font?

There must be an easier way than to go through all the movieclips. That’s killer.

Hi Andrei,

I’m not sure if that would work but you could use a decompiler to figure out where the textfield is located

Did you tried the movie explorer panel?

DaniMun said
Hi Andrei, I’m not sure if that would work but you could use a decompiler to figure out where the textfield is located

I think he is referring to a situation when you have a .fla file which upon opening gives “font missing” message but doesn’t give you any information that which textfield in which movieclip is using that particular font reported as missing

@Andrei, I can feel you pain, I don’t know any better solution other than going through each and every textfield

I guess there is not other solution, but what i’ve done several times is just change it in the alert message while opening for a really weird one (like icons fonts or any other easy to see) and export the swf. I know is a bit stupid trick, but it has saved me some precious time.

Yes that’s a true pain .personal I don’t use a textfield on stage or MovieClip and use basic (Arial) font in the library, no pop text on my part for sure

LucidStudios said

DaniMun said
Hi Andrei, I’m not sure if that would work but you could use a decompiler to figure out where the textfield is located

I think he is referring to a situation when you have a .fla file which upon opening gives “font missing” message but doesn’t give you any information that which textfield in which movieclip is using that particular font reported as missing

@Andrei, I can feel you pain, I don’t know any better solution other than going through each and every textfield

That’s what I mean exactly. The issue is I have my FLA , and it’s not a movieclip that is still used in the website, so it’s no problem if it gives this warning. But I want to remove it, I’ve been through all the mc’s several times, and I didn’t find it.

So Adobe still has some things to finish. How hard would have been to add the name of the movieclip in the warning?!

This is the website, by the way: http://dev.vuzum.com/clients/petergabriel/fitz/ Select Tokyo, it has more images.

tsafi said
Yes that’s a true pain .personal I don’t use a textfield on stage or MovieClip and use basic (Arial) font in the library, no pop text on my part for sure

When it’s the client’s decision (it always is in our case ) we have to use special fonts.

VF said
Did you tried the movie explorer panel?

Yes, but how would that help?

pezflash said
I guess there is not other solution, but what i’ve done several times is just change it in the alert message while opening for a really weird one (like icons fonts or any other easy to see) and export the swf. I know is a bit stupid trick, but it has saved me some precious time.

Yeah, but I don’t think it’s used anywhere in the FLA .