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Embedding fonts in AS3

No more do you have to have fonts in your library you can embed them directly from the folder where they reside using the [Embed] in your ActionScript Project.

You supply the path to the font in the ’source’ param and then store a name to be referenced to access the font in ‘fontFamily’. You also need to declare a variable of type String or Class for the [Embed] to be assigned to, although you don’t need to reference it in your code.

To access the embeded font you use the String you assigned to the var ‘fontFamily’

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Actionscript:

1. package
2. {
3.        
4.        
5.         import flash.display.Sprite;
6.         import flash.display.TextField;
7.         import flash.display.TextFieldAutoSize;
8.        
9.         import flash.text.TextFormat;
10.         import flash.text.AntiAliasType;
11.        
12.        
13.        
14.         public class EmbedFontTest extends Sprite
15.         {
16.                
17.                
18.                
19.                 [Embed(source="C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\ARIAL.TTF", fontFamily="Arial")]
20.                 private var _arial_str:String;
21.                
22.                 private var _arial_fmt:TextFormat;
23.                 private var _text_txt:TextField;
24.                
25.                
26.                
27.                 public function EmbedFontTest()
28.                 {
29.                         super();
30.                        
31.                         this.initEmbedFontTest();
32.                 }
33.                
34.                
35.                
36.                 private function initEmbedFontTest():Void
37.                 {
38.                         this._arial_fmt = new TextFormat();
39.                         this._arial_fmt.font = “Arial”;
40.                         this._arial_fmt.size = 40;
41.                                                
42.                         this._text_txt = new TextField();
43.                         this._text_txt.embedFonts = true;
44.                         this._text_txt.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
45.                         this._text_txt.defaultTextFormat = this._arial_fmt;
46.                         this._text_txt.text = “Test Arial Format”;
47.                   
48.                         this.addChild(this._text_txt);
49.                 }
50.         }
51.        
52.        
53.        
54. }

This entry was posted on Monday, December 5th, 2005 at 2:04 am and is filed under Flash Player 9, ActionScript 3.0. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Cool article how to embed a font in a pure AS3 actionscript project using Flex. There are 2 errors in the script. First the namespace of TextField is in flash.text
Second the return type of the initEmbedFontTest should be void instead of Void