How to share fonts in between more SWF with flash CS3

[davidjmcclelland.com]

You must import an italic and a bold and a bold italic in addition to the plain font. Each one must be registered separately. Then they are accessible by their font name such as "Arial Bold".

Also, another tip: if you set up the fields in Flash IDE instead of dynamically at runtime, do not set them to the same font you will import at runtime - use a lookalike. For instance, use Helvetica for Arial. Otherwise you will not see the fonts when embedding is turned on. In fact, don't use the font anywhere in the file that will use the imported font - I have had this bite me more times!

Hope this helps!

[James]

David,

That worked perfectly! Thank you so much for sharing that information!

James

[James]

David,

I have one more question if you have time. What about font size? If I what to use more than one font size with the same font type, do I have to import the same font again for each font size?

Thank you,

James

[davidjmcclelland.com]

No problem!

Generally you get any size you want when you use this method. An exception is if you choose "bitmap" when importing the fonts into library - then the size will be limited to what you select in the Font import dialog.

But you should not use bitmaps with this method.

[7Miles]

Yes me too
I got problems with bitmap setting.
It works fine with antialias for readability or animations

[Node1]

Thanks alot for this great toturial.
This is the best font-embeding toturial i've found so far>>
All i had to do was add IOErrorEvent to make it load online.

private function loadSWF():void
{
var request:URLRequest=new URLRequest('fonts.swf');
loader=new Loader();
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.CO MPLETE,completato);
loader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, ioErrorHandler);

loader.load(request);
}

private function ioErrorHandler(event:IOErrorEvent):void {
trace("====> ioErrorHandler: " + event);
}