Can I embed OpenType fonts in Flash CS 5.5?

Question

I just reopened an old-ish Flash project and the fonts aren't working. The project was worked on previously in CS 3 or 4 - don't recall - on a Mac running some earlier version of OS X. I'm currently running Lion and Flash CS 5.5, and some of the fonts aren't embedding or rendering. The project is using Postscript fonts.
I thought I read that TrueType fonts are more reliable, but the font I need (Akzidenz Grotesk) is not available in TrueType, only OpenType.
Am I safe to buy and use this in OpenType format? It's several hundred dollars so want to be sure before blowing the money. I think I'm looking at this version, which seems to be the smallest/cheapest I can get away with: http://www.linotype.com/265010/AkzidenzGroteskStdValuePack-product.html
Thanks!

Answer 1

Thanks. I'm actually using the Font Embedding panel in Flash. Seems to be working though I can't get any of the variations to work.
I create a new font in the Font Embedding panel, choose my font and weight (trying Myriad Pro and Myriad Pro Italic), export for actionscript (AS classes fontNormal1 and fontItalic1).
Then in the class where I do my formatting, up top I have:
private var fontNormalFont1:String = 'Myriad Pro';
private var fontItalicFont1:String = 'Myriad Pro Italic';
In my constructor I have:
Font.registerFont(fontNormal1);
Font.registerFont(fontItalic1);
Then I create my text format:
fmtMainTitle:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
fmtMainTitle.color = 0xffffff;
fmtMainTitle.font = fontNormalFont1;
fmtMainTitle.size = 18;
Which I subsequently apply to text fields (including an embed font directive). It works great if my font is fontNormalFont1, but if I try fontItalicFont1 it comes up blank - no text appears.
I tried creating an instance of the AS class for the italic font, and getting the font name:
fontItalicInst:Font = new fontItalic1();
trace(fontItalicInst.fontName);
And I get back "Myriad Pro" - in other words it's only returning the base font name, not the full name.
I'm pretty rusty at AS/Flash, and fonts were never my strong suit, so I could be doing all the the wrong way. I do need to have fonts available in CSS, which could be why I'm registering the fonts (it's been a few years since I built this app).
Would appreciate any advice
- Bob