Category: flex

• How to embed fonts properly in AS3

  Best practice for embedding fonts in AS3. Fonts can be embedded using the Flex metadata “Embed”. For example, if you want to embed the font named Arial (this should be the system font located in FontBook or the Fonts folder) [as3] [Embed(systemFont="Arial", fontName="Arial", mimeType="application/x-font", unicodeRange="U+0041-U+0054")] var arial:Class; Font.registerFont(arial); [/as3] systemFont: looks for the current system…

  Julius The Pious

  July 3, 2009

  AS3, code snips, flex, fonts