Embedding Fonts Using Flash Builder 4
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Sep/097
Sep/097
Not too long ago, I struggled with embedding fonts in my AS3 app that I build with Ant. Building my .swfs with Ant has been my practice for quite a while but embedding fonts wasn’t. It took some time but I finally figured it out. Everything was fine until I tried to build using Flash Builder which kept reporting transcoding errors.
So how do you enable proper transcoding of fonts in Flash Builder? Add the following to your compiler options.
-managers flash.fonts.AFEFontManager
If this doesn’t work, let me know. Docs on embedding fonts seems to be in short supply so I’d like to collect as much information as possible.
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1:59 pm on September 10th, 2009
Thanks for the follow up on this, Phil. I just now read your previous post on the subject of ant and fonts, and have added it to my “to do” list for Flex 4. I also added a link to your blog from the livedocs page that you referenced, so hopefully other users will not have to go through the same problems.
Matthew Horn
Flex docs
8:49 pm on September 10th, 2009
And thank you for reminding me that I should be posting comments in the livedocs instead of shouting into the void.
1:48 pm on February 8th, 2010
Thanks for posting this, a whole day of frustration solved.
7:31 am on March 16th, 2010
Thank you! This worked wonders!
7:22 am on March 30th, 2010
Hi – I was wondering does this work with Flex Builder 3 with flex 4.0.0.14159 sdk. I downloaded this version and added it to my sdks folder in FlexBuilder 3.
I ensured that Flex was pointing to it and the player was set to 10 0 0. I also checked textlayout.swc, framework.swc etc was included in library path in Flex.
I then tried to build my project which makes use of font embedding – I noticed that on some forums people mentioned to change cff=”true” to embedAsCFF=”true” which I did which got rid of one error. However I keep getting a Verify Error:FontAsset not found. Even though this class resides in these included swcs. I tried the beta release downloads also and they dont work either.
The last version I had of the sdk was 4.0.0 build 7219 and it worked fine. Has something else changed regarding font embedding or is there a bug with these new releases and Flash Builder 3???
[
Embed( source="D:/deployment/applications/fontbuilder/fonts/arial bold.ttf",
fontWeight=
"bold",
fontFamily=
"ArialCFF",
mimeType=
"application/x-font",
unicodeRange=
"U+0030-U+0039,U+0009,U+000A,U+000D,U+0020-U+0023,U+0025-U+002F,U+003A-U+0040,U+ 005B-U+0060,U+007B-U+007E,U+00A9,U+0024,U+00A2,U+00A3,U+20AC,U+0041-U+005A,U+006 1-U+007A,U+00A0-U+00FF,U+0100-U+017F,U+0180-U+024F,U+0391-U+03CE",
embedAsCFF="true" /*needed for latest SDK */
)]
11:03 am on May 6th, 2010
I didn’t see any letters, until I set embedAsCFF=”false”. Maybe this could help someone.
4:15 pm on July 26th, 2010
embedAsCFF=”false” – that helped a lot, thanks! 4 hours of trouble finally have an end…