{"id":100,"date":"2010-05-27T21:50:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T01:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joebillman.com\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2010-05-27T21:50:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T01:50:09","slug":"how-to-embed-fonts-using-actionscript-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joebillman.com\/blog\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"How to embed fonts using actionscript 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was causing my to bang my head for a little while. There are different ways depending on \u00a0whether you are using Flash or Flash Builder (previously Flex Builder). If you are using Flash you can go here for a good example\/tutorial: http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/devnet\/flash\/quickstart\/embedding_fonts\/<\/a>. Basically you add a font to the library by clicking the pop-up menu (in the upper-right corner of the Library panel), export it for actionscript and then give it a class name. After that your code looks something like this:<\/p>\n

var myFont:Font = new Font1();\nvar myFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();\nmyFormat.font = myFont.fontName;<\/pre>\n
Embedding fonts in AS3 seems to be a big problem for many people out there especially if you are using Flash Builder\/Flex Builder. I know it was driving me crazy! I was following the examples, but still seemed to keep getting the same error: “An Embed variable must not have an existing value.”. Okay maybe it’s just me but that one was a little cryptic. Finally after a long time, but before having to do a Google search for straight jackets I figured out what I was missing. In all of the examples the embed line was right above a Class variable, but mine was not, so I added one and \u00a0cha ching it worked. Here is a sample:<\/p>\n
[Embed(source=\"assets\/MONACO.TTF\", fontName=\"monaco\",\nmimeType=\"application\/x-font-truetype\")]\nprivate var MonacoFontEmbed:Class;<\/pre>\n
It may just be me but this was not obvious I must confess. You don’t use that variable at least I didn’t, you simple set the .font property to the fontName value. It looks something like this:<\/p>\n
myFormat.font = \"monaco\";<\/pre>\n
monaco is what I named it. You can name that whatever you want along with the variable. I named it MonacoFontEmbed, but you can name it whatever. I hoped this helped. If you have any questions feel free to post them. Embedding fonts is very useful especially if you are planning to manipulate a text field. Manipulations like rotation will just cause your text field to\u00a0disappear\u00a0if created dynamically and without embedding the font.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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