how to embed?!

[emstris]

I don't seem to be able to use the embeded fonts! this is how I'm doing it:

in my document class I'm embeding the font like this:

[Embed(source="assets/tahoma.ttf", fontFamily="Tahoma", mimeType="application/x-font-truetype")]

private var tahoma:Class;

and then I registered the font in the constructor:

Font.registerFont(tahoma);

it seems to be embeded because the SWF file increases... now I create my textFlow:

_textFlow = new TextFlow();

_textFlow.fontFamily = "Tahoma";

_textFlow.fontSize = 13;

_textFlow.color = 0x000000;

_textFlow.fontLookup = FontLookup.EMBEDDED_CFF;

_textFlow.renderingMode = RenderingMode.CFF;

_paragraph = new ParagraphElement();

_textFlow.addChild(_paragraph);

_span = new SpanElement();
_span.text = _label.value;
_paragraph.addChild(_span);

_txtContainerController = new ContainerController(_myLabel, NaN, NaN);

_textFlow.flowComposer.addController(_txtContainerController);

_textFlow.flowComposer.updateAllControllers();

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I beleive those two highlighted lines are actually responsible for embeding the font? yes? but this is not working for me. any idea why? thanks.

[rdermer · Accepted solution]

The fontLookup property you've higlighted tells TLF to use the embedded font.

This sample code embeds a font:

[Embed(mimeType="application/x-font", exportSymbol="myArial_bold_normal", embedAsCFF="true", fontWeight="bold", source="arialbd.ttf", fontName="myArial")]

public class myArial_bold_normal extends mx.core.FontAsset
{ }

I believe the main thing you are missing is the embedAsCFF="true" on the Embed tag.

Hope that helps,

Richard