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• Flash AS3 Loading Fonts

    May 13th, 2008 By: dan   

   

  Create a Flash AS3 application that loads an external font at runtime… Sounds easy enough… But it is a little tricky. I needed to create a flash app that allowed users to choose a font from a list and load that into a player. I wanted to offer several fonts but did not w
• • Created a new Fla and add a font to the library.
   
  • In the Library pane(F11), click the options dropdown, and choose ‘New Font’
   
  • Select a font, size and style–size is not important (arguably)–however, I believe you will have to create separate fonts for each style you require. The name is not important really either.
   
  • Right click the new font in the Library and select ‘Linkage…’ 
     
    • Check ‘Export for ActionScript’ and ‘Export in first frame’.
     
    • Give it a Class:–this name is important and you will need to remember it. I used ‘EFont01′ fig. 1
• • This article gives good methode to use separate font.swf file to save data

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• embeding fonts - ashan fonseka on 2009-06-23