Comments on: Embedding fonts from a Flash SWF file into a Flex application

By: Mani

Mani — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 07:01:44 +0000

Hi Peter, I am also using loading fonts from swf. But it applying for mx Components not for Spark . Please let me know the workaround for this.

By: Thiyagarajan

Thiyagarajan — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 05:47:09 +0000

Hi Peter, I am using fonts from swf. But it applying for mx Components not for Spark . How to recover from this.
Please give me a solution…

By: charlie

charlie — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:20:00 +0000

Hi Peter
Could you explain how to generate one swf file that inclues multiple font faces? Like the one in your example fonts/fonts.swf. It seems that the fontswf utility accepts one input font file.
Thanks!

By: jai

jai — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:35:40 +0000

hi Peter
My seach for HTMLText with embedded font finally ends at this page. Wonderful examples.
Thanks
jai

By: Peter deHaan

Peter deHaan — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:17:57 +0000

@Yannick Lacaute,
I haven’t tried TLF w/ Flash CS4, but I wouldn’t expect that to work very well since CS4 doesn’t really support CFF font embedding or the newer DefineFont4 font stuff. You’d probably have to wait for Flash CS5 or do this all in Flash Builder.

As for your other comment, I’ll try and take a look later today when I get into the office and have a few minutes.

Thanks,
Peter

By: Yannick Lacaute

Yannick Lacaute — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:45:49 +0000

Hi,

I don’t manage to embed font in a SWF with the option “embedAsCFF”.
This show me a compilation error (flex2.compiler.media.MovieTranscoder).

See my other comment for more details.

Any idea ?

Thanks

By: Peter deHaan

Peter deHaan — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:14:06 +0000

@lordB8r,

I can only imagine embedding 32 font faces would create an enormous SWF that would take a long time to load anyways. You may want to reconsider embedding that many fonts.

Out of curiosity, if the compiler ever finishes compiling, how large is that SWF?

Peter

By: lordB8r

lordB8r — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:21:23 +0000

Posted this same question on another of Peter’s examples…

What do I do when I need, say, 8 font families for simple RichTextEditor capabilities. I now need to embed 32 @font-faces to make this work, and those 32 fonts then grind the compiler to a halt whenever I need to build my application. I’ve tried SWF, css, inline, etc. and nothing seems to improve the performance of the compiler because of the need for the “default” fonts to be re-embedded (especially if I want to do something like rotate the RTE).

Has anyone else had problems with embedding multiple fonts?

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:01:35 +0000

As far as I can tell, CS4 doesn’t like some fonts whereas CS3 had no problem with them. For example, Helvetica Neue works for me, but HelveticaNeueLT Com 75 Bd no longer works. It seems the issue is because Helvetica Neue Com 75 Bd is OpenType. It is .ttf however, and it worked fine with CS3 Flash.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:52:48 +0000

Same issues here. Annoying!

font ‘HelveticaNeueLT Com 75 Bd’ with normal weight and regular style not found
Unable to transcode /CS4Background.swf.

If I figure it out in the next hour or so, I’ll post how I solved it.