Embed Font workflow for flash as3
September 16th, 2009 • general
Martin, a good friend of mine, wrote a great blog post about font handling. He created an ant task which creates a font class / swf. What’s so cool about it? You can load fonts, and dont have to compile them every time, like [Embed ...] does.
I just had some trouble because I misspelled the font :O. Here is a loop which traces all the registered font names and solved my really stupid fault. And here is a example how you embed a registered font.
var fontLoader : Loader = new Loader(); var lInf : LoaderInfo = fontLoader.contentLoaderInfo; lInf.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onFontLoaded); fontLoader.load(new URLRequest("Verdana.swf")); function onFontLoaded(e : Event) : void { var tf : TextFormat = new TextFormat(); tf.font = "FONTNAME"; var tfield : TextField = new TextField(); tfield.defaultTextFormat = tf; tfield.text = "Martin rocks!"; var embeddedFonts : Array = Font.enumerateFonts(false); for(var i : Number = 0;i < embeddedFonts.length; i++) { var item : Font = embeddedFonts[i]; trace( "[" + i + "] name:" + item.fontName + ", style: " + item.fontStyle + ", type: " + item.fontType ); } }