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

Thanks for the demo. One problem I keep running into is the limit of how many embedded fonts I can put into a css before it brings my compiler to a standstill. Essentially, I want to create a RichTextEditor (toolbar separated) that can rotate, but unless I embed the fonts (including normal, bold, italic, and bold & italic), the font disappears the moment rotation passes 1 degree.

One thing I’ve tried doing is limiting the number of fonts available to 8 fonts (i.e. Arial, Courier, etc), but even that makes me need to have 32 @font-face statements in my css, otherwise the bold or italics (or combined) won’t work. If I remove the css, then I lose the text upon rotate. Any thoughts/help? Thanks,

lordB8r

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Application xmlns="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
        backgroundColor="white">

    <Script>
        <![CDATA[
            import mx.events.ListEvent;

            private function comboBox_change(evt:ListEvent):void {
                var fontName:String = comboBox.selectedItem.toString();
                textArea.setStyle("fontFamily", fontName);
            }
        ]]>
    </Script>

    <ApplicationControlBar dock="true">
        <ComboBox id="comboBox"
                dataProvider="[Verdana,Times New Roman,Trebuchet MS,Comic Sans MS]"
                change="comboBox_change(event);" />
    </ApplicationControlBar>

    <TextArea id="textArea">
        <text>The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.</text>
    </TextArea>

</Application>

Peter

The following example shows how you can dynamically change the font family on a Flex TextArea control using data binding:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Application xmlns="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
        backgroundColor="white">

    <ApplicationControlBar dock="true">
        <ComboBox id="comboBox"
                dataProvider="[Arial,Verdana,Times New Roman,Trebuchet MS,Comic Sans MS]" />
    </ApplicationControlBar>

    <TextArea id="textArea" fontFamily="{comboBox.selectedItem}">
        <text>The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.</text>
    </TextArea>

</Application>

Peter

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=fonts_09.html#251936

OTF is supported, but I’ve yet to use fonts of this type so I can’t really speak to it.