Alternative to embedding a font in as3

Question

I have quite a basic question to ensure I am not missing something obvious!

Does anyone know of an alternative to embedding fonts? I am developing a global app wh

Answer 1

I have had success with using system fonts such as Arial or simply _sans for languages that have special characters. Just make sure to set embedFonts to false.

Answer 2

You can do this by embeding the font in external SWF files.

for example you have:

Arial_EN.swf

Arial_RU.swf

Arial_JP.swf

Arial_DE.swf

Then in your configuration file you a defining which swf to load. After you load SWF

<!-- english Arial -->
<o n="font">
<o n="path">swf/Arial_DE.swf</o>
    <!-- Styles, under which names your fonts are exported while emebeded -->

    <o n="style">bold</o>
    <o n="style">bold_italic</o>
    <o n="style">italic</o>
    <o n="style">regular</o>
</o>

Load the swf:

var fontLoader:Loader = new Loader ();
//all the eventlistener and functions for it
fontLoader.load ( xml.font.path )`

After you load the swf and you have the style names just register the font, if you will be using embedFonts=true option

Font.registerFont ( fontLoader.getClass ( xml.font.style ) );

Answer 3

You can embed the different fonts that you will require in different swf asset files and only load in the required fonts at runtime.