Comments on: Embedding Fonts Using External SWF Files

By: Marcus

Marcus — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:51:39 +0000

I’ve been trying to embed Helvetica via static text on flash CS5 (like ‘Mark A.’).
This is what I selected on flash;
-Classic
-Static Text
-anti-alias: Use device font

Publish settings > HTML > Device Font (checked)

The reason i chose this method is because the text is much more clean and sharper with helvetica than if I select ‘input’ or ‘dynamic’ and then select ‘anti-allias for animation’ or ‘anti-alias for readability’ (which compresses everything).

- Unfortunately, this method doesn’t work on other machines who don’t have Helvetica installed. The font is replaced automatically by New Times Roman or something else….:-/// My SWF hasn’t embeded Helvetica?

I don’t see the point why Adobe is letting users learn to embed font if it doesn’t even work with any fonts! It’s a waste of time….Who’s going to embed ‘Arial’?? Everybody has it…

Other people have had the same problem as me;
http://www.gotoandlearnforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=32233&hilit=Static+Text+is+not+embedding

Any idea where I can simple method where I can embed fonts internally? I like to work on the timeline. I’m a newbie on AS3 and I try to stay away from text fields created via pure AS3 code. But if this is the only way today to embed a font and have the best resolution then I’m willing to go there.

..Any idea where to get a source file that’s easy to work with? A source file with a font embedded inside the swf?

Thanks for reading!

Is there a way to

By: hayabu4i

hayabu4i — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:27:22 +0000

Thank you very much!
I’ve usually used Flash IDE for fonts embeding, but now I don’t need it at all. Here is the source file (http://code.google.com/p/flashdevelop/source/browse/trunk/FD4/FlashDevelop/Bin/Debug/Templates/ProjectFiles/AS3Project/Font+Library.as.fdt?r=1763) that compiles *.swf with embeded fonts under Flex Builder or Flash Develop (I’m using the last one). Notes like “how to use” inside *.as file. Really helpfull!

By: Mark A.

Mark A. — Tue, 17 May 2011 14:11:50 +0000

Keep one thing in mind: You cannot embed a font you use otherwise in your swf. For example: You have used “Arial” as static text in your swf. If you try to embed the same font, “Arial”, for dynamic text fields – it WILL not work. This cost me hours to figure out.

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By: Cameron

Cameron — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:34:59 +0000

This works great – wanted to tell you that I have been using this as a method of font embedding for quite some time.

As a side note, in Flash CS5 you can now create Font library symbols for dynamic text fields (or even text fields created via pure AS3 code).

In other words, it looks like Adobe finally made this easier to do. But your idea was still the best and I used it a ton!!!

By: soozee

soozee — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:52:51 +0000

this worked. you’re awesome. thank you.

By: Sylvia

Sylvia — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:14:28 +0000

Thanks for the help, tricky subject.

I’ve followed this all the way down to attaching the code my style sheet. It seems like every time I remove the defaultTextFormat line and try to attach an external style sheet I loose my text.

I am loading the text and multiple fonts via XML. Any ideas?

//////////code

var myHtmlText:TextField = new TextField();

myHtmlText.width=contentWidth-10;
myHtmlText.antiAliasType=’advanced’;
myHtmlText.embedFonts=true;
myHtmlText.multiline=true;
myHtmlText.wordWrap=true;
myHtmlText.autoSize=TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
myHtmlText.defaultTextFormat = new TextFormat(“H1″, 30, 0×000000);
//myHtmlText.text = “this is dynamic text on stage, no css”;
myHtmlText.htmlText = pageText; //this is the variable for my XML
myHtmlText.styleSheet = sheet; // my style sheet “sheet” is the first this to load followed by my XML

Many Thanks!
Sylvia

By: dev prez

dev prez — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:00:50 +0000

Oh!
It *doesn’t work* in CS4 – thank you. I didn’t find documentation of this backwards incompatibility anywhere but here. You may have just saved my job, if not certainly several more hours of work with your astute observation. Cheers.
~

By: tom

tom — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:54:48 +0000

Thank you very much for this post – helped me a lot …

By: Craig Grummitt

Craig Grummitt — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:38:39 +0000

Interesting technique. A problem with it that’s worth mentioning, however, is that your font library swf is only external in the authoring stage. When compiling, the font library swf embeds in with your main swf. When this happens, several of the benefits of even having a font library disappear such as:
1. Authoring time-saving: Saving time on compiles so that you’re not compiling the font as well every time you compile.
2. Runtime time-saving: Only loading a font when needed reduces initial load time on your main swf, and obviously means your font won’t be loaded at all if not needed.