In a previous example, “Embedding fonts in a Flex application using Embed metadata”, we saw how you could embed fonts using the [Embed] metadata with the source attribute.
The following example shows how you can embed system fonts in a Flex application using the [Embed] metadata with the systemFont attribute.
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The following example shows how you can embed a font using ActionScript and the [Embed] metadata.
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The following example shows how you can check whether an embedded font has a specific glyph by passing a string to the hasGlyph() method which returns a Boolean value indicating whether the font has the specified character(s).
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We’ve looked at general font embedding and unicode ranges before in previous examples (see “Embedding and animating fonts in a Flex application” and “Specifying certain unicode-ranges for embedded fonts”), but this example will show you how you can embed a named range of unicode characters into an application by editing your flex-config.xml file and specifying unicode ranges.
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The following examples show how you can embed a font from a Flash SWF into a Flex application using @font-face in a <mx:Style /> block, or using the [Embed] metadata.
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The following example shows you how to change an embedded font’s appearance by setting the fontAntiAliasType style, fontSharpness style, fontThickness style, and fontGridFitType style.
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The following example shows how you can embed a font in Flex by specifying the font name instead of a location by using the local() function instead of the src() function when embedding a font.
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The following example shows how you can use the static Font.enumerateFonts() method in Flex to determine which fonts are installed on a user’s system. The enumerateFonts() method returns an array of Font objects (see the flash.text.Font for more information)
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The following example shows how you can customize the appearance of a Flex Button control by using an embedded font and removing the Button’s default skin.
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This is a more complex version of my previous example. This time in addition to making the Alert control’s text non-selectable, we use an embedded font for the Alert title, message, buttons, as well as edit the drop shadow, remove the rounded corners, and remove the button skins.
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In a previous post (”Embedding and animating fonts in a Flex application“), we looked at embedding a font in a Flex application so we could animate, rotate, and set the alpha for a Text control. Well, as we learnt, sometimes embedding a whole font face can dramatically increase the size of the final SWF output. In this post we’ll look at only specifying a certain range of characters for an embedded font, which will help reduce file sizes.
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I meant to post this earlier, and I already touched on font embedding in an earlier post (Building a basic controller for the VideoDisplay control), but here’s a quick little way to embed a font in a Flex application.
In this example we embed a font (the awesome “Base 02″ PC TrueType font (TTF) from http://www.stereo-type.net/), animate it using the Zoom effect and the Elastic.easeOut easing method. We also set the rotation and alpha properties (which you can’t do with non-embedded fonts), and we set the fontAntiAliasType to “advanced” to give the font a cleaner look. Finally we use the effectEnd event to loop the animation.
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