Yesterday we were hooking up dynamic loading of fonts, the next item to tackle was having a download manager to add external fonts to so they could be downloaded and ready to be used when the application loads. This download manager I envisioned could be used through out the application to cue up external fonts for downloading and once they are downloaded kick off the next process. Well it looks like someone has done the heavy lifting and created such a library. Arthur Debert has released BulkLoader an AS3 library on Google Code to handle such things.

The library looks good and easy to use, I’ll follow up with a post to our integration of it with our project.

No kidding. In an attempt to replicate first hand the Flash upload bug that is in Leopard 10.5 we attempted to upgrade one of our less used machines. During the installation it stopped and said that the installation couldn’t be performed on the hard drive and to restart the system and try again.

About 10 seconds into the restart the computer would shut off. It did this every time. I tried starting the computer in Firewire device mode and connected the system to another Mac to see what I could see. The internal hard drive didn’t show up at all. Running Disk Utility found it, but couldn’t repair it.

Then next step was to reformat the hard drive and try the install again. This proved to be futile as well. Leopard still couldn’t install to the hard drive. The only course of action now was a new hard drive. This got Leopard installed and the computer back to working.

I was able to reproduce the Flash Upload problem with the Certificate Creator and a clean install of Leopard. Luckily Apple has an update 10.5.1 that fixes this issue along with some others. After updating to to 10.5.1 the upload feature of the Certificate Creator works again.

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