Embedding Font AS3 w/ Flash Builder 4 OSX

[TheFlashLife]

I have written a simple label class that works fine when not pointing to my embedded font. When using the embedded it fails to render the text on screen.

Label.as

package com.components.misc

{

     import flash.display.Sprite;

     import flash.text.AntiAliasType;

     import flash.text.TextField;

     import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;

     import flash.text.TextFormat;

     public class Label extends Sprite

     {

          public function Label(str:String, color:int = 0x000000, size:int = 22, embedded:Boolean = false, font:String = "marker")

          {

               super();

               trace ("string : "+str+", color : "+color+", size : "+size+", embedded : "+embedded+", font : "+font)

               var format:TextFormat = new TextFormat();

               if (embedded) format.font = font;

               format.color = color;

               format.size = size;

               var label:TextField         = new TextField();

               label.embedFonts            = embedded;

               label.autoSize              = TextFieldAutoSize.CENTER;

               label.antiAliasType         = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;

               label.defaultTextFormat     = format;

               label.text                  = str;

               addChild(label);

          }

     }

}

Method used to embed font

package com.managers

{

     import flash.display.Bitmap;

     public class AssetManager {

          // Embedded Font Does Not Display - ERROR

          [Embed(source='assets/MarkerFelt.ttf', fontName="Marker", fontFamily="Marker", mimeType="application/x-font-truetype")]

          public static const FONT_MARKER:String;

          [Embed(source="assets/logo.png")]

          public static const IMAGE_LOGO:Class;

     }

}

Usage from base class

var l:Label = new Label("Come On, Work Already", 0xff0000, 42, true, AssetManager.FONT_MARKER);

addChild(l);

[TheFlashLife]

I have also tried to set the embedAsCFF to false in the embed tag and also set an additional flag in the application compiler settings which is -managers flash.fonts.AFEFontManager. And neither of these changes worked.

Updated Classes

package com.managers

{

     import flash.display.Bitmap;

     public class AssetManager {

          // Embedded Font Does Not Display - ERROR

          [Embed(source='assets/MarkerFelt.ttf', fontFamily="Marker", fontName="Marker", embedAsCFF=false, mimeType="application/x-font-truetype")]

          public static const FONT_MARKER:String;

          [Embed(source="assets/logo.png")]

          public static const IMAGE_LOGO:Class;

     }

}

[TheFlashLife]

I am still unable to successfully embed a font using this method. Has anyone successfuly been able to do so with flash builder? If so, please post your method.

[Guest]

Hi!

I have tried this as a main class in ActionSrtipt project and it workes fine.

package
{
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.text.*;
   
    public class QuickTest extends MovieClip
    {

        // Embed the font Verdana
        [Embed(source="c:/windows/fonts/verdana.ttf", fontFamily="Verdana")]
        private var verdana:Class;
       
        public function QuickTest ()
        {
            // Set the font with a TextFormat object
            var format:TextFormat = new TextFormat( );
            format.font = "Verdana";
            format.size = 56;
           
            var t:TextField = new TextField( );
            t.embedFonts = true;
            // Format text using the font Verdana
            t.defaultTextFormat = format;
            t.text = "hello world";
            addChild(t);
        }
    }
}

[lukemack]

Did you solve this? I am having the same problem.

[MatteoLegittimo]

I have same problem to!

Fails to print text on screen!

I think there is some setting in flash builder!

Help!

[MatteoLegittimo]

hey!

I just did it!

U have to add embedAsCFF="false"

like for example this:

[

Embed(source="c:/windows/fonts/verdana.ttf", fontFamily="Verdana", embedAsCFF="false")]

[MatteoLegittimo]

Did u solve the problem?