http://blog.paoloiulita.it/2008/03/11/as3-embedding-font-with-code-only/

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That way you wouldn’t need to care about getting definitions and fishing for included font classes you might not even know the class names of (maybe someone else created the font class and didn’t document it properly ). Moreover, your application wouldn’t even need to know a thing about the fonts if the style definitions were included in an external style sheet that was loaded and applied as well.
Voilà, no more font mess in the application: you load the lib, you load the style sheet and you create textfields and apply styles without knowing anything about fonts.

@ danny:
if you add a linkage to your font in the IDE (e.g. “AssetFont”) you do can register that font in your application without having to define an extra Main.as for your lib FLA.
After having loaded the lib into your application as suggested in the above code use the getDefinition() approach to get your fonts definition via the font’s linkage you applied in the IDE:

Example (font’s linkage is “AssetFont”):

// dchangs loader code goes here …

private function completeHandler(event:Event):void {
var tSender : LoaderInfo = LoaderInfo(event.target);
var AssetFont : Class = tSender.applicationDomain.getDefinition(“AssetFont”) as Class;
Font.registerFont(AssetFont);

// use font from here on…
}

I need to embed some OTF fonts into a Flash AS3 project that is compiled with the Flex2 compiler. The thing is: it will not work.

I prepare a SWF in which I embed the fonts by putting them on the stage, check embed and set antialias for readability. Then I publish this SWF file.
Then in my AS3 class I try to embed the SWF with e.g….

[Embed(source='../assets/fonts.swf',
fontName='Frutiger')]
private static var FontClass:Class;

The fonts are obviously embedded because the SWF is about 20kb larger but the TextFields don’t show any text. I have to use a StyleSheet object there and of course I have embed = true.

Anyone know how to do this correctly?

anyway … i am loading fonts into an as3 file using the following

(Create a swf representing the font “_Arial.swf”)

—————-code snip———————-
[Embed(source='C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/arial.TTF',fontFamily="Arial")]
public static var _Arial:Class;
…
Font.registerFont(_Arial);
———————code snip—————-

(then i load the font.swf into another swf when it is needed.)
——————–
var loader:Loader = new Loader(); loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.INIT,fontLoaded);
loader.load(new URLRequest(“_Arial.swf”));
—————

i donot want to have to go through my system creating 100 swf files for fonts, + i want to be able to offer my users the ability to upload their own true type fonts.

i want to be able to dynamicaly embed the fonts with a variable path and variable name .

is it even possible to pass a var for the path / fontfamily of the embed syntax ?

example:

[Embed(source='{src}',fontFamily="{font}")]
var _font:Class;
Font.registerFont(_font);

let me know your thoughts…. thanks