Savvas Malamas just retweeted Mike Chambers's tweet on how the Adobe AIR 1.5 shift-space bug is apparently fixed in an internal build. In doing so, he reminded me to release my own workaround for it so you don't have to wait for the official release to patch your AIR apps. (This is especially true for those Twitter clients out there!)

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If you're on a Mac, you cannot embed fonts in Flex or AIR apps directly from the dfont files that come with the system. However, you can do this:

1. Install fondu (sudo port install fondu or get the OS X package)
2. Copy the fonts you want to convert from /System/Fonts to, say, ~/mydfonts
3. Switch the output folder (e.g., cd ~/mynewfonts)
4. In Terminal, invoke fondu (fondu ~/mydfonts/*.dfont)
5. In your Flex Builder project properties, add the following compiler tag: -managers flash.fonts.AFEFontManager (or else you'll get an exception during transcoding: Unexpected exception encountered while reading font file error)
6. Finally, embed the font as you would normally via CSS. e.g., (more...)

The Yahoo! Flex Skin is a lovely minimalist skin by the good folks on Yahoo!'s Flash team. However, it has an issue that you need to work around if you want to load it in dynamically at runtime. It's a simple thing, but I thought I'd document it here in hopes that it will help save someone else a few minutes of confusion.

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It appears that FITC Amsterdam, which takes place Feb 22-24, 2009, is almost sold out. And it's easy to see why as they've managed to put together yet another stellar line-up of speakers and sessions on Flash, Flex, Papervision3D, and even iPhone development. So if you haven't got your ticket yet, hurry up! :)

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At the urging of Patrick Welfringer and Paul Booth, I've updated the playerversion.com site.

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