Some device fonts don't work

Question

Some device fonts don't work in Flex 2.0.1

Given the following code, the shown label won't use font "Wingdings 3".

<mx:Label x="89" y="102" text="Label" fontFamily="Wingdings 3" />

So, which device fonts are not supported in Flex? And for these fonts, which fonts will be used insteady?

Thanks!

Peter_deHaan · Answer

I think Wingdings is one of the very few I've heard about that doesn't work.

You could try running this example in a recent Flex 4 SDK and see what other fonts don't render like you expect: http://blog.flexexamples.com/2009/07/17/displaying-different-fonts-in-a-spark-list-control-in-flex-4/

As for Wingdings/Webdings, I'm pretty sure there is a bug logged for that in the public Flex Bugbase.

This is the bug I was thinking: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-22359. There seem to be other references to Wingdings in the public bugbase as well (http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLG_enUS309US309&q=wingdings+site%3abugs.adobe.com) but I haven't looked through a lot of those. If you see other fonts that don't render as expect, file a new bug at http://bugs.adobe.com/flex/ or http://bugs.adobe.com/flashplayer/ (depending on whether you can repro without the Flex framework).

Peter

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