Comments on: Embedding fonts in Flash CS4 using ActionScript

By: HdotNET

HdotNET — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:33:26 +0000

I know I’m pretty late to this party but after reading what seems the entire internet I think I’ve solved a problem that many people may come up against.

If your embedded font is not appearing, ensure that you set the defaultTextFormat property of your TextField BEFORE you set the text property.

GOOD:
var format:TextFormat = new TextFormat(); format.font=EmbeddedFont.fontName; format.color=0x000000; var txtObj:TextField = new TextField(); txtObj.embedFonts=true; txtObj.defaultTextFormat=format; txtObj.text='Hello World!';

BAD

var format:TextFormat = new TextFormat(); format.font= EmbeddedFont.fontName; format.color=0xffffff; var txtObj:TextField = new TextField(); txtObj.embedFonts=true; txtObj.text='Hello World!'; txtObj.defaultTextFormat=format;

If you don’t you will waste several hours of your life wondering why your damn text isn’t appearing.

By: lordB8r

lordB8r — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:39:14 +0000

not sure if it’ll help, but i’ve been trying for a while to embed some custom fonts that a client wanted to use. Not finding an easy way to get the font’s i have from font-book (on a mac), i created a css that uses src:local(‘assets/fonts/customFont’). Then I created a swf from the css, and then used that in a global{ src:url(“assets/fonts/customFont.swf”);
fontFamily: “customFont”;}
I have no idea if that’ll help anyone else, but suddenly i was finally seeing my fonts in all of my skinned components…

By: Shanti

Shanti — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:38:46 +0000

Thank You so much! This is what I wanted!!!

By: martin

martin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:29:44 +0000

I want to embed my font with the following code:
[Embed(source = "../../assets/fonts/HelveticaBold.swf", fontFamily = "HelveticaNeue LT 75 Bold")]
public static var HelveticaBold:Class;
….
and the code used above. But I don’t see my text. Whats wrong?

By: jayesh

jayesh — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:00:20 +0000

found it here.

Excerpt below –

You add metadata to ActionScript on the line immediately preceding the line of code that the metadata applies to. The compiler then takes the metadata into account when compiling the line of code that follows it.

[Embed("../button_up.png")] private var buttonUpImage:Class;
The [Embed] metadata tag tells the compiler to embed the file named button_up.png in the SWF file and that the file should be associated with the variable named buttonUpImage.

By: jayesh

jayesh — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:27:36 +0000

How can we embed multiple fonts? I tried having two lines of Embed with different font-sources and Class names. It says - An Embed variable must not have an existing value. Any clue?


		[Embed(source = "fonts/isocteur.ttf", fontFamily = "ISOC")]
		[Embed(source = "fonts/Helvetica.ttf", fontFamily = "HELV")]

-jayesh

By: adriaan

adriaan — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:18:23 +0000

PS: I do with with “Verdana” and it works…

By: adriaan

adriaan — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:12:35 +0000

I’ve been embedding fonts in my Flash projects for years on my PC. Now I’m on a Mac and I can’t embed as I once used to. Here’s what I’m doing:

Installed OpenType version of “Akzidenz Grotesk Berthold” (my client’s font of choice) into my Computer library in Font Book. Then I use an external SWF with the Font added via “New Font” in the library. I select Akzidenz and make the export name “BertholdAkzidenzGrotesk”. In the first frame of this SWF I code:
import flash.text.Font; Font.registerFont( BertholdAkzidenzGrotesk );
On my PC sometimes I had trouble getting the font to load so I’d need to use the actual TTF file name on a TextField, as in:
var format : TextFormat = new TextFormat(); format.font = "AkzidGroCFFLig";

But this doesn’t work, nor does:
var format : TextFormat = new TextFormat(); format.font = "BertholdAkzidenzGrotesk";

Nor does:
var format : TextFormat = new TextFormat(); format.font = "Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk";

This would always work on my PC (I’ve developed websites for Nokia using this method)…What am I suddenly doing wrong?

Thanks for your help.

Best,
adriaan

By: Sein

Sein — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:53:59 +0000

AMAZING! IT did the job in my case!

By: Peter deHaan

Peter deHaan — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:35:59 +0000

Victor,

Out of curiosity, what is the Cyrillic font bug in CS4?

Peter