Telugu fonts and Macromedia Flash files
Sreenivas Paruchuri
Regards,
Sreenivas
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Subject: Telugu fonts and Macromedia Flash files
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 19:55:00 +0100
From: "Srikanth Bandi"
To: "Sreenivas Paruchuri"
Hi Sreenivas, Could you post this on raccabanDa along with the two
attached files?I am not sure of posting attached files to the newsgroup
from hotmail.
many thanks
srikanth
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I have been experimenting with converting RIT text into a
Macromedia flash files aka Shockwave Flash files
(animation files with extension .swf). This is still a work in
progress report of the results. jampaala's recent report on TANA story
competition has been used as RIT input.
These are the steps. 1) installed Macromedia Flash player VERSION 6.0
(or above) available free from
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi
?P1_Prod_VersionÿhockwaveFlash
2) installed Tikkana fonts (available from
http://www.bhaavana.net/fonts/)
3) to start with I have a RIT file mentioned above (6,288 bytes)
4) generated encoded text using 'rangavallika' web editor
(resulting size 5,594 bytes)
(editor at http://www.bhaavana.net/Rangavalli/webeditor.html )
5) copy and pasted the result into another file. It looks like some
binary gibberish.
6) using a Flash tool I wrote, imported above file and generated
SWF (5,585 bytes)
7) using another tool produced a compressed SWF (2,758 bytes)
(for comparison, I also pasted the encoded text in step 4
into Microsoft Word2000. It resulted in a majestic 35K). To see the
attached example SWF file one should complete
steps 1) and 2) which are rather straightforward. Open a
browser and drag and drop SWF file inside it. The original text file is
cut down by nearly half by the time
it mutated to SWF. The font rendering is also superior in
Flash. On the browser (I use IE6.x) letters appear aloof
from each other as if they had a family fight. In Flash they
are more close knit. Other advantages of using Flash:
-ability to integrate with rich Flash features to develop
multimedia Telugu web pages.
-the examples use installed fonts. Flash supports embedded
fonts as well which, when used, bloated the current file to
20K. However one can apply geometric transformations to
text, giving unprecedented flexibility in text design. With
embedded fonts, Flash could produce the best rendering, on
par with pdf. Disadvantages:
- loosing built in browser formatting.
- invokes Flash player to run inside the browser, but this is more
a client side headache
- to make full use of Flash capabilities one needs expensive
commercial software such as Macromedia Flash. At a minimum, without
spending a penny, one can use
SWF for text only pages – e.g. stories – to store more
compactly and display more elegantly. One more technology to exploit for
Telugu fonts! Regards, Srikanth Ps1: acknowledgements to Prasad's site
http://www.bhaavana.net/ for font information
Ps2: I found that this site uses Telugu fonts with Flash:
http://www.teluguword.com/
Ps3: two attached files: original RIT, SWF output without
embedded fonts, i.e. requires step (2) above
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Courtesy: http://www.kanneganti.com/