Webmaster Forum / Flash / General Flash Topics / July 2008

This has become a pretty frustrating experience. I'm running XP and have
installed 6 .otf fonts, from the Avenir family. Flash MX 2004 and Flash 8 don't
see all but the Light and Roman versions of the font (they are the only ones
that appear in the font menu). Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop display all the
fonts, however.

An associate suggested that sometimes Flash doesn't like the names to be
non-standard; in other words, it doesn't like "Heavy", but prefers "Bold", etc.
This seems to support the fonts not being displayed in the Flash font menu, as
they are AvenirLTStd-Heavy.otf, AvenirLTStd-HeavyOblique.otf,
AvenirLTStd-LightOblique.otf and AvenirLTStd-Oblique.otf. The only two being
displayed in the font menu are AvenirLTStd-Roman.otf and AvenirLTStd-Light.otf
("Roman" and "Light" are pretty traditional names).
I've tried renaming the fonts to "Bold" and "italic", etc., but Windows still
sees the original names. I've tried opening the fonts in Notepad and changing
all references (for example, all "Heavy" to "bold"), but saving the font file
(even if I add and remove a space) makes it unreadable as a font (security
issues, I think).
One reason I think it's a naming issue, is I did try renaming Heavy to Roman,
and installed it, and Flash saw it as Roman, but it had the Heavy
characteristic. This work-around doesn't work, however, as I need Roman, too
(and renaming it Roman2 doesn't work).
Is there any solution for this? I need access to all of the Avenir font
family, as it's for a branded project that uses Avenir specifically.
Oh, and last but not least, I have the fonts installed on my Mac, and Flash 8
and CS3 both see all the fonts, no problem.