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Selecting substitute fonts

An alert box indicating missing fonts in a document appears the first time a scene containing a missing font is displayed on the Stage. If you publish or export the document without displaying any scenes containing the missing fonts, the alert box appears during the publish or export operation. If you choose to select substitute fonts, the Font Mapping dialog box appears, listing all missing fonts in the document and letting you select a substitute for each.

Note: If the document contains many missing fonts, a delay may occur while Flash generates the list of missing fonts.

You can apply the missing font to new or existing text in the current document. The text is displayed on your system using the substitute font, but the missing font information is saved with the document. If the document is reopened on a system that includes the missing font, the text is displayed using that font.

Text attributes such as font size, leading, kerning, and so on may need to be adjusted when the text is displayed in the missing font, because the formatting you apply is based on the appearance of the text in the substitute font.

To specify font substitution:

1 | When the Missing Fonts alert appears, do one of the following:
| Click Choose Substitute Fonts to select substitute fonts from fonts installed on your system and proceed to step 2.
| Click Use Default to use the Flash System Default Font to substitute all missing fonts and to dismiss the Missing Fonts alert.
2 | In the Font Mapping dialog box, click on a font in the Missing Fonts column to select it. Shift-click to select multiple missing fonts, to map them all to the same substitute font.
| The default substitute fonts are displayed in the Mapped To column, until you select substitute fonts.
3 | Choose a font from the Substitute Font pop-up menu.
4 | Repeat steps 2-4 for all missing fonts.
5 | Click OK.