I have movies showing and everything but they are rendering extremely small. I don"t know what happened to my Flash install so I used an online SIFR generator to convert the .ttf file. I am going to try the sIFRmaker referenced by dipsum.
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I have movies showing and everything but they are rendering extremely small. I don"t know what happened to my Flash install so I used an online SIFR generator to convert the .ttf file. I am going to try the sIFRmaker referenced by dipsum.
#17 / Jul 03, 2008 7:06pm
Anyone had any luck with another sIFRMaker type of thing. I just realized that the aforementioned example is Windoze only and I am slumming on my old PPC P-book with no use for .exe programs.
#18 / Jul 03, 2008 7:07pm
Cheers Mr Dimsun, sorted. I couldn’t use your link as it’s for PC, but on the SIFR jQuery site is a link to something called sifr.source which did the job perfectly.
#19 / Jul 04, 2008 12:01am
Andy,
I found this for generating SWF files from .ttf files. I have yet to try it but it looks promising: OpensIFR
#20 / Jul 04, 2008 2:23am
OpensIFR gives me some issues sometimes. That’s probably the most prominent sIFR converter out there though.
#21 / Jul 05, 2008 3:55pm
Yes, it gave me some pretty significant problems too. I recognized it as familiar after I installed it and saw that horrible interface. It more or less refuses to output anything at all. In the end, I had to redo my entire CS3 install, just to get my Flash Pro back. I still haven’t figured out where it went in the first place, but to make a long story short…if you rely on your CS3 install, stay away from the CS4 betas.
That said, I have moved away form the JQuery sIFR plugin and am playing around with the regular sIFR 3, as it is not any more difficult for me to get results from.
#22 / Jul 14, 2008 5:18pm
I got mine working. 95% of the problem was a bad .swf file that had been sent to me. Made my own using sIFR Generator and it worked great.
Final problem I’m having is with having the sIFR scale the text to fit the available space. Does anybody know how to do this? the jquery plugin seems (to me at least) to have fewer configuration options available.
#23 / Sep 23, 2008 6:55pm
I also broke my code down into a very simple example and I’m still having problems. Everything looks correct, any help would be greatly greatly appreciated!!!
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html >
<head>
<scr*ipt type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.2.6.min.js"></scr*ipt>
<scr*ipt type="text/javascript" src="jquery.sifr.js"></scr*ipt>
<sc*ript type="text/javascript" src="jquery.flash.js"></scr*ipt>
<style type="text/css">
h1 { font-size: 150px; color: #ff0000; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is a Test</h1>
<scr*ipt type="text/javascript">
$('h1').sifr( {
font: 'nevis', color: '#f00'
});
</scr*ipt>
</body>
</html>#24 / Sep 23, 2008 7:15pm
Ok turns out I had a bad SWF, maybe it has something to do with being on a Mac and using a generator…
#25 / Sep 26, 2008 12:50am
Hey Phil,
The jQuery sIFR plugin should automatically scale the text to fit the available space. If you also need to zoom the text in or out of the same space (say, if the particular sIFR font that you are using seems just a little too small or large) then you can always tweak it with the zoom feature.
$(‘h1’).sifr({ zoom: 0.75 }); // Zooms the text to three-fourths the size.
I’m sorry to have only found this thread now. I’ve recently revamped the sIFR plugin and fixed A LOT of the issues with sizing, positioning, and hyperlinks. I’m also now working on insuring sIFR3 support, as I recently noticed that sifrgenerator.com is now letting you create sIFR3 fonts. If there’s a way you guys think it could be easier, then I’ll do it!
Jonathan
#26 / Sep 26, 2008 9:00am
I looked at using this plugin recently as I’ve been using jQuery for most js-related stuff, but this put me off:
In Opera browsers, everything looks awful.
Unfortunately, that’s a deal-breaker as far as I’m concerned.
#27 / Sep 26, 2008 3:55pm
All right, no arm twisting, I’ll support the Opera browser.
You can go back to the page http://jquery.thewikies.com/sifr/ and it should all look and feel and work now, just as consistently as it has in the other browsers (IE6/7, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari).
Remember that in Opera Browsers you must set the font name from within the function like so:
$(‘h1’).sifr({
font: 'font name'
});
The reason is that Opera automatically drops what-it-considers-to-be unregistered font names from the fontFamily property, so, unlike every other browser you must set the font manually.
#28 / Sep 26, 2008 9:18pm
Cool. Well next time I’m contemplating using sIFR (which is quite often), I’ll be sure to revisit your plugin. 😊
#29 / Oct 10, 2008 3:46pm
I also wanted to let you know that I have released a version of the jQuery sIFR plugin that uses the SWFObject library instead of the jQuery Flash plugin. It is currently available @ http://jquery.thewikies.com/swfobjectsifr/
#30 / Mar 24, 2009 12:41am
Is there anyway to have line wraps with sifr?