Yes, the original post didn't state why he thought embedding was
required, so you may be right and the requirement may have been to do
something you can only do with an embedded font. In which case,
neither of us has provided a useful answer, other that "yes you need
to embed the font in a swf file"... :-)
Out of curiosity, why *can't* Flash do things like rotate text unless
the corresponding font is embedded? Couldn't it just embed the
necessary glyphs from the local font on an as-needed basis?
Guy
On 09/12/2009, at 10:16 AM, Alex Harui wrote:
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.
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
