How in the World can you embed Fonts?

Jo, when I attempt to load your font swf (http://www.skycoversum.de/skyco9/test3/Fverdana.swf) I get the following runtime error:

VerifyError: Error #1014: Class mx.core::FontAsset could not be found.

Interestingly enough, I also get the same error when I browse directly to that address in a browser.

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bustback,

Thanks for the details of the problems you ran into.  I figured I'd run into the same problem with dealing with multiple fonts and only being able to specify a single swf context.  I figured I'd get one working and then worry about getting it to work with multiple.  But, it looks it would be much simpler just to get Font.registerFont working.  So far it's failed me at every avenue.

I've recreated my projects just to make sure I've narrowed down the scope.  I'm also building both the font library (the swf that gets loaded in) and the main app in Flex 3.3. I'm not even worrying about the text flow yet.  I just want to be able to load in a font swf, register the font, then enumerate the fonts and see it listed as an embedded font in the main app.

When calling Font.registerFont(), I get the following error:

ArgumentError: Error #1508: The value specified for argument font is invalid.
    at flash.text::Font$/registerFont()
    at FontApp/completeHandler()

Here's my code for the app:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" minWidth="955" minHeight="600"
                    creationComplete="application1_creationCompleteHandler(event)">
     <mx:Script>
          <![CDATA[
               import mx.events.FlexEvent;
          
               protected var loader:Loader;
               
               protected function application1_creationCompleteHandler(event:FlexEvent):void
               {
                    loader = new Loader();
                    loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler);
                    var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest('http://aaronhardy.com/transfer/FontLib.swf');
                    var loaderContext:LoaderContext = new LoaderContext(false, ApplicationDomain.currentDomain);
                    loader.load(request, loaderContext);
               }
               
               protected function completeHandler(event:Event):void
               {
                    var FontLib:Class = event.currentTarget.applicationDomain.getDefinition("FontLib") as Class;
                    var Arial:Class = FontLib.ARIAL_FONT;
                    Font.registerFont(Arial);
                    var fonts:Array = Font.enumerateFonts(false);
                    trace(fonts);
               }
          ]]>
     </mx:Script>
</mx:Application>

and here's the code for the font library:

package
{
     import flash.display.Sprite;
     import flash.text.Font;
     
     public class FontLib extends Sprite
     {
          [Embed(
               source="arial.ttf", 
               fontFamily="Arial"
          )]
          public static const ARIAL_FONT:Class;
          
          public function FontLib()
          {
               super();
          }
     }
}

I've tried both verdana and arial fonts that I've pulled from my C:\Windows\Fonts folder and it always throws the error.  Once I get this resolved I should be able to get started with the text flow integration.

Hi Abhishek,

thanks for your prompt response. Your approach really worked and I will post the complete working code, if anyone is interested. IT IS POSSIBLE to use dynamically embedded fonts

1) create a ActionsScript Project in Flex and Export into Release Build as swf. Use GUMBO SDK, if earlier than 7400, use cff="true", if later use

embedAsCFF="true" (avoiding that compiler2 error warning)

package

{

import flash.display.Sprite;

import flash.text.Font;

public class lib_font_2 extends Sprite

{

Embed(source="assets/Arial.otf", fontFamily="ArialEmbedded", cff="true")]

public const ArialEmbeddedFont:Class;

public function lib_font_2()

{

     Font.registerFont(ArialEmbeddedFont);

2) in Flex, use a simple Loader, load the external swf and on loading done the font can be used by referencing in Tlf e.g.

fontFamily='ArialEmbedded' fontLookup='embeddedCFF'

Thank you!