It will if he wants to use device fonts. I just assumed he wanted to use embedded fonts for various rendering effects.
Alex Harui Flex SDK Developer Adobe Systems Inc.<http://www.adobe.com/> Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Guy Morton Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 2:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] using system fonts in Flex Are you sure it won't pick up locally available fonts? I'm fairly sure it will. If you use CSS to define the font to use you can specify a list of fonts to degrade to, so if your preferred font is unavailable the next one on the list will be used. Have you tried that? Guy On 09/12/2009, at 7:12 AM, Glenn Jones wrote: AFAIK, any fonts used in Flex ha! ve to be compiled into the SWF. Is there some way to use system fonts that are already installed on a customer machine? Specifically, I'd like to build an app that uses Microsoft's new Segoi UI font (included with Vista and Office 2007) without compiling a TTF into my SWF. Thanks, Glenn
