How can I embed arabic Font in Flash?

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November 12, 2009
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I want to use various Arabic Fonts in Flash. I using AS3 and the textLayout.swc with the FDT in Eclipse. And compiling with the Flex SDK 4.0.0. The Compiler-Arguments are
-default-size 780 260 -default-frame-rate 31 -static-link-runtime-shared-libraries=true -managers=flash.fonts.AFEFontManager -default-background-color 0xFFFFFF -library-path {flexSDK}/frameworks/locale/en_US --target-player=10.0.32

I try this:

Embed the Arabic Font in a Font-Class
[Embed(source='../../../../assets/fonts/AXTGIB__.TTF', fontName='AXtGIhaneBold', mimeType="application/x-font", embedAsCFF="true")]
public var AXtGIhaneBold : Class;

public function Fonts() {
Font.registerFont(AXtGIhaneBold);
}

Create a TextFlowElement and do this:

    textFlow = new TextFlow();

    layoutFmt = new TextLayoutFormat();
    layoutFmt.direction = Direction.RTL;
    layoutFmt.fontFamily = "AXtGIhaneBold";
    layoutFmt.renderingMode = RenderingMode.CFF;
    layoutFmt.fontLookup = FontLookup.EMBEDDED_CFF;

    textFlow.format = layoutFmt;

But it doesn't work. The Font in Flash don't change to AXtGIhaneBold.
Can anyone tell me what's wrong?

Text layout framework

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arabicode

Participant

FlarabyAS3 is much simpler and lighter that TLF: http://www.arabicode.com/flarabyas3/main

Message was edited by: arabicode

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mjzhang

Participating Frequently

hi frankie*,

Please try this, there are some difference with your code:

http://actionscriptexamples.com/2008/11/24/embedding-fonts-in-flash-cs4-using-actionscript/

// ActionScript 3.0

[Embed(source="assets/ARIAL.TTF", fontFamily="ArialEmbedded")]

var ArialEmbedded:Class;

var arialEmbeddedFont:Font = new ArialEmbedded();

var textFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();

textFormat.color = 0xFF0000;

textFormat.font = arialEmbeddedFont.fontName;

textFormat.size = 32;

var textField:TextField = new TextField();

textField.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;

textField.wordWrap = true;

textField.defaultTextFormat = textFormat;

textField.embedFonts = true;

textField.text = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.";

textField.width = 500;

textField.x = 25;

textField.y = 25;

addChild(textField);

Hope it helps.

JF Software

Inspiring

I have the same problem with a number of different Arabic fonts (including the one you're trying). A call to .hasGlyphs() returns false for any roman string.

Let me know if you stumble on an answer.