Might be useful to some one… just make sure you have not applied the font that is required for embedding, in the FLA.

For instance, if you need to embed a font (say Hobo), use any method that suites you best – preferably CSS, but ensure that Hobo is not applied to any of your text boxes either on stage or on the library. Use some font that you are sure will never be used in the project for *all* text boxes (say Garamond). Then, apply Hobo through script to the text boxes.

If in case you are not able to see an embedded font, it can mean only one thing – that there is at least one instance of a text box some where within the FLA, which has that particular font applied to it. Please note that it doesn’t matter if the text box is Static, Dynamic or Input.

~ Shiyaz

var font:Font = new f1(); //from library
var format:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
format.font = new f1().fontName;
format.color = 0x000000;
format.size = 12;
format.letterSpacing = 0.8;

//var tf:TextField = new TextField();
k1.embedFonts = true;
k1.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;
k1.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
k1.selectable = false;
k1.defaultTextFormat = format;
k1.text = “Collections”;

this is my code… k1 is a name of a dynamic text field that i have created in screen.. i hav created a mask for th layer that contains this text field..so its not visible, thats the reason i want to embed the font. but its not at all working.. pls tell me what am missing..

Incredible that Adobe didn’t document this clearly.

1180: Call to a possibly undefined method myEmbeddedFont.

I started a project to gather every Flash/Flex issues and questions related to fonts embedding. SAEF project (Share About Embedding Flash/Flex).
http://analogdesign.ch/blog/index.php/archive/flash-flex-font-embedding-information-sharing-project-saef-project/
Don’t hesitate to make suggestions and/or modifications.

Btw, I really love flightboard effect on your site! We had to do something similar for one online campaign – https://www.nivas.hr/pub/s&s-tmobil-flex-728/

var embeddedFontClass:Class = getDefinitionByName(embededFontName) as Class;
Font.registerFont(embeddedFontClass);
var font = new embeddedFontClass().fontName;

var fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
fmt.font = font;

;-)

I’ve now concluded my research on this issue as well. Please find it here

If somebody knows how to embed font to TextArea in cs3, give me a buzz…!

As for the CS2 products Adobe’s QA has remained terrible and despite the fact that the font embedding has always been troublesome, Flash CS3 compiler is undoubtedly the worst compiler I’ve seen for Flash and I’ve seen them since Flash 4.

I haven’t tried embedding/using our chars in Flex, but it can’t get much worse than Flash 9 IDE.

This is total madness. The whole thing is utterly broken and not usable. We can imagine how many frameworks it has broken for the Flash developers…