[flexcoders] Embedded fonts not working in Flex 3?

[Stephen Roy J. Tang]

Hi all,

I downloaded the 3.0.0.477 build from opensource.adobe.com and did a
few simple test cases. The ff mxml failed to compile:
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- fonts/EmbeddedFontFace.mxml -->
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml";>
  <mx:Style>
     @font-face {
        src: local("Arial");
        fontFamily: myFontFamily;
        advancedAntiAliasing: true;
     }
     
     VBox {
        fontFamily: myFontFamily;
     }     
  </mx:Style>

  <mx:Panel title="Embedded Font Applied With Type Selector">
     <mx:VBox>
        <mx:Button label="Click Me"/>
        <mx:Label text="Label"/> 
        <mx:TextArea width="400" height="75" text="The text 
            uses the myClass class selector."
        />
     </mx:VBox>
  </mx:Panel>
</mx:Application>
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The code is copy-and-paste almost exactly from an example in the
livedocs...I just changed the font from Myriad Pro to Arial.

Compiling the above gives a null pointer exception:

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C:\flex3\bin>mxmlc test.mxml
Loading configuration file C:\flex3\frameworks\flex-config.xml
Error: null

java.lang.NullPointerException
        at flash.swf.TagEncoder.defineFontAlignZones(TagEncoder.java:1254)
        at
flash.swf.tags.DefineFontAlignZones.visit(DefineFontAlignZones.java:2
9)
        at flash.swf.MovieEncoder.visitAfter(MovieEncoder.java:259)
        at flash.swf.MovieEncoder.define(MovieEncoder.java:240)
        at flash.swf.MovieEncoder.export(MovieEncoder.java:116)
        at flex2.compiler.API.encode(API.java:4068)
        at flex2.tools.Compiler.mxmlc(Compiler.java:270)
        at flex2.tools.Compiler.main(Compiler.java:53)

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Any idea? Or is there anything I need to set in the compiler to embed
fonts?

Thanks!

Roy