Comments on: Dynamically loading fonts at runtime

By: Kolyan

Kolyan — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:18:19 +0000

Thanks for your knowledge, I mean it.
I am having some difficulty with this symbol to embed “&”. When it comes to embedding I do choose “Basic Latin”, “Lower… and Upper Cases” and all the “special characters” for Tahoma. Save and run …. It displays part of the text till that “&” symbol. if I type “and” it shows everything just fine.

The text is loaded externally though.
I am using CS4 but file is 3 years old and Flash reads and compiles it as AS 2/1 and.
Any idea for this matter?

Thank you all
Kolyan. player 8.

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Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:35:41 +0000

[...] article explain the same approach, but it need to add extra font family (Bold or Italic) at specific font [...]

By: rich

rich — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:09:19 +0000

cool,thanks for that. I didn’t have to do that, but maybe that was because I used a LoaderContext with applicationDomain=currentDomain.

By: ljones

ljones — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:00:57 +0000

I tried this but for whatever reason my applicationDomain failed to show the proper font. So i modified the code to:

var a_TestFont:Class = event.target.content.a_TestFont as Class;
Font.registerFont(a_TestFont);

And this worked fine. just in case anyone else has this problem. Thanks for the article.

By: rich

rich — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:11:36 +0000

hmm…that’s a little bit of a tough one for me without getting my hands on it to play with it. Are you using CSS in Flex to style the text? Can you post some more specific info about how you’re defining/using the loaded fonts?

By: Xilver

Xilver — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:43:41 +0000

Nice writeup, helped me out a lot. However, I seem to have a problem, and I hope you can help me out, since documentation on this is really hard to come by.

Some of our customers are Fortune 500 companies, and as such, most of the content needs to be translated into a lot of different languages, so you can imagine the character set horror we come across

Often, the designers need to add extra characters to a specific font, and when they do that, they create a new font based on the original, and call it for example X_Arial. We make sure that in that case, the font family is the same for all subsets of that font. However, even though X_Arial, X_Arial Bold, X_Arial Italic,… all have X_Arial as font family, Flex will still treat them as separate fonts, unlike when you use the normal Arial.

I have opened the fonts in High-Logic Font Creator, but I can see no differences. I would assume if they have the same family, they would be counted as one font?