Comments on: Flex Chronicles #22: Embedding Fonts in a Button

By: mani

mani — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:00:46 +0000

hi,
if i want to have a bold style..what should i do?. Please let me know

By: Valdemar

Valdemar — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:44:02 +0000

Hi JesterXL. I`ve tried the swf method but, like sasha/hdrs, I couldn’t import both Myriad Pro Regular and Myriad Pro Condensed from the same swf because they conflit. The two need fontWeight:normal; and fontStyle: normal;
To solve this I had to go back to Flash divide into two swfs, one for the Regular and another for the Condensed.

As for the size I limited mine using these settings inside the @font-face style:

unicode-range:
U+0020-U+007E, /* englishRange */
U+00A1-U+00FF,U+2000-U+206F,U+20A0-U+20CF,U+2100-U+2183; /* Latin I */

The resulting size is similar to the swf method and it is easear to edit.

So, (if I am not missing something here ’cause I’m new to Flex) the option to embed the fonts directly seems to be more practical and more effective than the swf option…

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:52:47 +0000

The problem with that way, Valdemar, is that you are embedding the whole font. Some fonts are 22k for the entire set, while others are 6 megs. The BEST way in my opinion, is it utilize Flash. You create a TextField, choose the font, the characters you wish to embed, and link to that SWF vs. the TTF file.

By: Valdemar

Valdemar — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:25:27 +0000

Take a look here that can help you:

http://simplestexplanation.com/2009/04/the-right-way-to-embed-fonts-in-adobe-flex-3/

By: kat neville

kat neville — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:41:54 +0000

You are my hero. Newbie flexer, and this has been doing my head in!