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Determining whether a font has specific glyphs in Flex

by Peter deHaan on January 31, 2008

in ActionScript, Font, Fonts

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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Finding out which fonts are installed on a user’s system

by Peter deHaan on September 10, 2007

in Font, Fonts

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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