Posts Tagged as3
BU Online Admissions Viewbook
For the past six or so months, I’ve been involved in two large projects with the admissions department at BU – this is actually the second of the two, the first will be in a forthcoming post. The Viewbook is a key recruiting tool for the university, accepted students receive it as one of the primary pieces of collateral alongside an acceptance letter. The goal is to show just what can be done and what life is like at the university and to help solidify a decision. This year, the print publication was highly integrated with a web component, taking over parts of the admissions website but also including a custom, highly interactive piece.
College of Communications
As a graduate from the College of Communications (COM), it was a privilege to work on the redesign. The old site was extremely dated and needed a big revamp.
The new design aimed to bring timely news/events, student/faculty/class work (in the form of COM Stories), and department information to the forefront, improve content organization and uniformity, and bring the site into the present. Here’s the new homepage:
BUniverse – BU’s Video Portal
Earlier this year, I worked on a project to incorporate video in an entirely new way for Boston University, a video portal to replace the aging BUniverse site from before that stored an ever-aging collection of class lectures and influential speakers. Today, BUniverse houses videos from six categories relevant to BU: BU Today, Lectures, Students, Faculty, Staff, and Alumni, all submitted by anyone in the BU community.
Flash CS5 font embedding – it’s totally different…
Update
This post was originally written when CS5 first landed and the way I had been previously setting up font embedding stopped working. I was unaware, at that time, of the ability to enumerate over the embedded fonts that would completely eschew the need to reference something like actual TTF data in an external application (my initial comments). At this point I suggest you take a look through the more recent comments if the below suggestions do not work for you as there is some useful information throughout.
Original Post:
(…and breaks the way everyone has been doing it with ActionScript).
Basically, no longer do you embed a font like this:
Flash CS5 brings along with it a new item in the Text menu for your FLA. Simply select Text, and go down to Font Embedding:
Once selected, hit the plus to create a new font entry, and customize it as you desire (weights, embedded glyphs, etc). If you don’t need to reference it from ActionScript, you’re finished, but if you do, read on…
