Embeding Fonts in AS3?

[mrm5102]

Hello All,

Publish Settings:

     Program:  Flash Professional CS6

        Target:  Flash Player 11.2

         Script:  Actionscript 3

So I've created 2 new "Fonts" in my library in order to embed them into my Program. But when I run the program the font is not correct. Not sure

what I'm doing wrong..?

Below are the settings for the Embedded Fonts I included. There are 2 of them, which I created by right-clicking in the Library and clicking "New Font".

The First Font:

                       Name:  "Font_Impact" 

          Char Ranges:  All

       Outline Format:  TLF(DF4)

                Linkage:

                      -     Checked --->  Export for Actionscript

                      -     Checked --->  Export in Frame 1     (*Don't know if I needed this but it was selected by default..??)

                      -     Identifier --->  Greyed out....

                      -           Class --->  "Font_Impact"

                      - Case Class --->  "flash.text.Font"
                Sharing:

                         *NOTHING SELECTED HERE (*This was the default so I left it as is)

The seconds font has the exact same settings as the one above except:

               Name:  "Font_Arial_Black"

               Class:  "Font_Arial_Black"

Now, what I did was I followed the instructions I found here at this link below:

          http://www.gaslightgames.co.uk/?p=163

I think I did exactly what they did in their example but it didn't seem to work for me.

My code where I'm trying to use this is:

import flash.text.TextField;

import flash.text.Font;

import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;

import flash.text.TextFormat;

import fl.text.TLFTextField;

    var tickerTxtField:TLFTextField = new TLFTextField();

    //var tickerTxtField:TextField = new TextField();               //---> Tried this one too, same result

var tickerTxtField_format:TextFormat;        //TextFormat

var embedFont:Font_Arial_Black;               //Embedded Font 1

var embedFont2:Font_Impact;                    //Embedded Font 2

:....

:............OTHER CODE............:

:............

embedFont = new Font_Arial_Black();

embedFont2 = new Font_Impact();

tickerTxtField_format = new TextFormat();

tickerTxtField_format.font = embedFont.Font_Impact;

tickerTxtField.text = "This is some sample Text To Display..."

:....

:............OTHER CODE............:

:............

I thought I was doing it correctly while I was following the instructions in the link I provided, but I can't seem to get it working.

Can anyone tell what I'm NOT doing correctly? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated...!

Thanks in Advance,

Matt

[Guest · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I believe this line is the one causing problems:

tickerTxtField_format.font = embedFont.Font_Impact;

I guess it should be:

tickerTxtField_format.font = embedFont.fontName;

You actually want to use the property 'fontName' of the Font class, not substitute it for the name of your font.

Hope it helps,

Marcel

[mrm5102]

Hey shiftless, thanks for the reply!

Oh, ok... I thought it was weird to use the font name that "I" gave to it. So that makes sense.

I'll give that a try and post back with my results.

Thanks Again for the reply,

Matt

[mrm5102]

Hey shiftless, sorry for the late reply. I haven't been able to work on this much in the last week or so, but I was

able to get back to this today.

That change you posted was correct. Thanks for that, much appreciated!

Here's my working code:

     *Embedded Font name is "Font_Impact"

var myFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();

var myFont:font;

:................................

:.......other code.......

:................................

:

myFont = new Font_Impact();

myFormat.font = Font_Impact.fontName;

:................................

:

Thanks Again,

Matt