Comments on: Embedding fonts from a Flex application into a Flash SWF file

By: lporiginalg

lporiginalg — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:37:55 +0000

Hi Peter can you please help me, I have followed the steps exactly as you’ve described but I keep getting this error:

“1067: Implicit coercion of a value of type FontsFontsFonts__EnglishFont to an unrelated type flash.text:Font.”

when trying to use the call:

var myFont:Font = new FontsFontsFonts__EnglishFont();

By: Peter deHaan

Peter deHaan — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:07:31 +0000

@nusirat,

If you’re using the Text Layout Components, you may need to embed the font with embedAsCFF=true.

Peter

By: nusirat

nusirat — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:57:36 +0000

Hello Peter
thanx alot for your example
but i face a problem when i try to use it with flash text layout component
this is my code

_textFlow=parent[myTextLayoutComp].textFlow;
var myFont:Font = new FontsFontsFonts_ArialEmbeddedFont();
//_textFlow.fontLookup=FontLookup.EMBEDDED_CFF;
//_textFlow.renderingMode=RenderingMode.CFF;
trace(“myFont.fontType “+myFont.fontType);
var textFlow:TextFlow = new TextFlow();
var charFormat:CharacterFormat = new CharacterFormat();
charFormat.color=textColorValue.color
charFormat.fontLookup=flash.text.engine.FontLookup.EMBEDDED_CFF;
charFormat.fontFamily=myFont.fontName
charFormat.kerning=flash.text.engine.Kerning.ON;

_textFlow.hostCharacterFormat=charFormat;
it dosent work with my textlayout

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:05:50 +0000

Thanks! This was a big help.

By: daniel

daniel — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:04:30 +0000

thx it works great

By: ian pretorius

ian pretorius — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:05:45 +0000

Thakns for the example it works by me as well ;)

By: pivo

pivo — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:21:20 +0000

Sorry SK,seems to work for flash player 9 as well.

I see your package is located in the bin folder, why not just put it in the root? Works fine for me…

By: pivo

pivo — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:14:18 +0000

SK, you might want to consider to publish for Flash player 10… ;-)

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:53:03 +0000

Peter,
Thank you.
Will this approach work with time line text fields?
thanks,
Chris

By: sk

sk — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:22:19 +0000

Hello Peter

I can’t make this work. The following constructor:
new FontsFontsFonts_ArialEmbeddedFont();

keeps throwing an error: ‘Call to an undefined method’

Here’s my code:
——————-

in Flex Builder 3:
package bin
{
public class FArial
{
public function FArial()
{
[Embed(systemFont="Arial", fontFamily="ArialEmbedded")]
public const ArialEmbeddedFont:Class;
}
}
}

in Flash CS4:
// ActionScript 3.0 (Flash Authoring / Timeline)
var myFont:Font = new FArial_ArialEmbeddedFont();
[...]

- The library path is set to FArial.swc
- Actionscript 3
- Flash Player 9

Any insight or help would be much appreciated.

Thank you.