Comments on: AS3 Runtime Font Loading

By: siki?

siki? — Thu, 13 May 2010 10:15:20 +0000

Very nice topic and helpful solutions, thanks!
Now, I’ve been working on the problem myself for a while because I was used to creating shared font libs in the IDE.
However, when creating a font lib using the Flex SDK as you suggest, would it not be easier to directly register the fonts in the constructor of the FontLibrary?

By: Mike Lok

Mike Lok — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:59:47 +0000

Hi All,

I’ve tried this in Flash IDE and AS3; instead of doing a registerFont() for the class FontLibrary.SomeFont, I registered the loaded font class directly (SomeFont). It worked, except there is a bug that I can’t see to solve: when I have a textfield using the dyanmically loaded font and load it with text, it will not return it’s proper width and height via actionscript — it just returns the number 4 regardless of how much text is in it.

By: Anubhav Soni

Anubhav Soni — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:36:50 +0000

thanks a lot, that was a great
example…..

By: Lucas Lorentz

Lucas Lorentz — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:23:00 +0000

Here is an experiment I’ve made that loads True Type Fonts at runtime.

http://www.lucaslorentz.com.br/2009/11/loading-true-type-fonts-in-flash-at.html

It’s also an option!

By: Randygland

Randygland — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:51:51 +0000

this is about the best method of font embedding using runtime loaded swfs I’ve seen.

Just one question, how do I embed the bold, italic, and bold-italic versions of the same font?

All inside different swfs?

By: bez4pieci

bez4pieci — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:42:30 +0000

hey! really nice idea, but for me it does not work with eclipse/as3 project.

i’m getting an
ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable FontLibrary is not defined.

for the line:
var FontLibrary:Class = event.target.applicationDomain.getDefinition(“FontLibrary”) as Class;

i, however, found a solution:
var FontLibrary:Class = event.target.applicationDomain.getDefinition(getQualifiedClassName(event.target.content)) as Class;

cheers! : )

By: Vladimir Tsvetkov

Vladimir Tsvetkov — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:22:47 +0000

What can I say – I’ve tried so many ways for dynamically loading fonts, but your way is the single most simple and elegant way I’ve used so far.

You can also use this approach if you want your Fonts Library to be a Resource Shared Library.

The only question left to be answered is how to specify Unicode ranges?

Any ideas on that?

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:14:54 +0000

That so cool , I am come from Taiwan, I use this method to try Chinese Font, like thisã€Œæ–‡é¼Žä¸é»‘ã€,that can download from here–>http://bnseobto.googlepages.com/hei01mp.ttf ,but i am fail,oh~~no ~~~,I can’t embed any fons successful,but English wil…Orz. I can’t sleep will a long day.

so… how can I do.

thank you.

By: prolan12

prolan12 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:57:34 +0000

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By: manotosh

manotosh — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:11:15 +0000

Hi I am facing trouble with font in my project, it is a hybrid of flash and flex project. I have the font embeded in main swf file and then loading flex compiled code swf file in my application… but the moment I run the main swf using flex compiled code any text using embed fonts as true does not show up. I even tried to enumerate the available embeded font in the swf but shows none… but when I compile the same code using flash and load it every thing works fine. Does anybody know why Flex As3 project exported swf file removes the font information from the main swf file?