Comments on: Fonts are my bane; not anymore!

By: lance

lance — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:57:11 +0000

@zedia.net So where do you get the name GillSansLight2? How does that relate to the Font you're importing?

By: Dylan Baxter

Dylan Baxter — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:34:34 +0000

Fonts are still my bane. Another 4 hours wasted so far today, reading docs and blogs, trying six ways from Sunday to embed a font in a lone TextField in my application. I swear if I find two more Adobe hosted documents contradicting one another today, I’m gonna end it all…

By: Hugh H.

Hugh H. — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:22:16 +0000

//always assign the default textformat before modifying the text property //

Cheers man! that’s a perfect hint! For those who don’t get the embed fonts displayed properly

By: Skinning the ComboBox Flash component | ComboBox Font AS3 | setRendererStyle | zedia flash blog

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:13:00 +0000

[...] the visual is mostly easy inside of flash but my main problem is always the fonts. In a previous post I talked about fonts in Flash in general, this one will use that as a base and apply it to the [...]

By: Loading assets dynamically (part 4: fonts and CSS) – mat janson blanchet

Loading assets dynamically (part 4: fonts and CSS) – mat janson blanchet — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:31:19 +0000

[...] has a great video tutorial on how to create such a SWF. Dominic Gelineau from Zedia Flash Blog also posted something quite similar to what I explain here, he just posted before me, while my text was still a [...]

By: Mark A.

Mark A. — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:30:13 +0000

Thank you for that: “but when you start using static and dynamic textfields with the same font family but with different font style. When you do that, your dynamic textfields will just not show and that is really annoying”

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:35:28 +0000

I like your method as it seems a bit simpler than the one I have been using. There is a little more involved in my post but a person could just use the font part of it…

http://www.jeffguthrie.com/as3-loading-css-and-fonts

By: Mamzelle

Mamzelle — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:03:59 +0000

Thank you .

I find why Flash IDE trow my error previously when I try to embed fonts in classes. We must definite variable after the embed tag.

Like below:

[Embed("../button_up.png")]
private var buttonUpImage:Class;

By: zedia.net

zedia.net — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:52:06 +0000

@ adampasz
oh, but you can, in the embed tag, in the unicodeRange you can specify range or individual characters. Let say you just wanted those letters:”aB3″ you would do this: unicodeRange=’U+0061,U+0042,U+0033′ use this link to find the unicode that correspond to the characters you want : http://rishida.net/scripts/uniview/conversion.php

By: adampasz

adampasz — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:48:08 +0000

I believe another drawback of this approach is that you can’t specify certain characters to include the way you can in Flash.