So I had that little problem creating new font files for sIFR3. As I posted yesterday, I either got the “Please pass in your text.” error or just a blank where my text should be. It turns out that whenever I used the text tool in Flash to select the text and change it to another font I ended up with a blank font .swf. When creating new font files for sIFR3 just open the .fla in Flash (I am using CS3) and using the select tool double click the movie clip in the library. When the movie clip opens it will automatically select the text box. At that point you can change the font to be used in the file, save movie as (I use the font name for the font file) and export the movie. You can test the movie before exporting and if you see “Rendered with sIFR3…” it means the font file is working correctly.

So I jumped in the sIFR3 bandwagon and decided to treat my titles with a little style… Quite easy to implement. No biggie to implement its css and js codes but (and there’s always that little annoying *but*) the font swf would not play nice… Every time I tried to create a new font file I got either a “Please pass in your text.” or nothing at all where the sIFR’d text should be. So I did some googling and found mentions to the possibility that my files were sIFR2 and I was trying to use them with sIFR3. I re-downloaded the package from NOVEMBERBORN (they had released a newer nightly on July 11) and tried again. My first and second try didn’t work but the third worked. I have no idea what I did different but this time the font swf worked. I tried with a second font and couldn’t get it to work at all… In any case I had what I needed for my pages so here we are with sIFR’d titles Now off to figure out how to create more font files. I will post once I find what made the difference on the 3rd try.