[osflash] Problem embedding fonts with AS3

[Alexander Bienz]

Ah, thanks for the heads up Arnoud,

In light of this, I converted my fonts to TrueType using FontForge, it works
a treat.

Cheers,

Alex.

On Dec 11, 2007 9:44 PM, Arnoud Bos < a.bos9 at chello.nl> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>
>
> I think you can only embed true type fonts this way.
>
> With otf fonts you should use flash and referencethe resulting swf.
>
>
>
> Arnoud
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *Van:* osflash-bounces at osflash.org [mailto:osflash-bounces at osflash.org] *Namens
> *Alexander Bienz
> *Verzonden:* dinsdag 11 december 2007 19:06
> *Aan:* osflash at osflash.org
> *Onderwerp:* [osflash] Problem embedding fonts with AS3
>
>
>
> Hi there,
>
> When building my AS3 project using Flex SDK (2)  I get the following
> error...
>
> rake aborted!
> [ERROR] D:\workspace\flash\Dashboard
> ComparisonChart\project\src\app\helpers\typography\Typography.as(10): col:
> 4: Error: Embed is only supported on classes and member variables.
>
>         [Embed(source="../../../../assets/fonts/LBIFedra-Regular.otf",
> fontName="LBiFedra",
> unicodeRange="U+0020-U+002F,U+0030-U+0039,U+003A-U+0040,U+0041-U+005A,U+005B-U+0060,U+0061-U+007A,U+007B-U+007E")];
>
>          ^
>
> I've a file that holds information for all embedded fonts called
> Typography.as
>
> It has the following relevant lines of code...
>
>         public static const FEDRA : String = "Fedra";
>
>         [Embed(source="../../../../assets/fonts/Fedra-Regular.otf",
> fontName="Fedra",
> unicodeRange="U+0020-U+002F,U+0030-U+0039,U+003A-U+0040,U+0041-U+005A,U+005B-U+0060,U+0061-U+007A,U+007B-U+007E")];
>
>
>         public static var Fedra : Class;
>
> I'm calling the in a view that has a function for formatting and
> displaying text...
>
>     private function createTitle() : void {
>             title = new TextField();
>             title.text = title_text;
>             title.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;
>             title.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
>
>             var tf : TextFormat = new TextFormat();
>             tf.size = 12;
>             tf.bold = true;
>             tf.font = Typography.FEDRA;
>             title.setTextFormat(tf);
>
>             addChild(title);
>     }
>
> I've not managed to embed any fonts and I want them to be included at
> compile-time.
>
> Is there anything glaringly obvious that I'm doing wrongly here?
>
> TIA
>
> Alex.
>
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