Embed Fonts in Library for use with AS2.0 (k)

Question

I'm working on a project that will never run on the web. It's
a souped
up PowerPoint presentation basically. Entirely in flash.
I have a lot of ActionScript in there for animating text. The
ActionScript reads what's housed in the text="MY MESSAGE
HERE" and then
chops the phrase up into individual dynamic text fields
containing each
letter in the message that I then animate to get them on the
screen.
It works great and I have chosen the font via a _global
variable:
_global.FontFace = "ElanBook";
This calls the font from my computers font library, not the
Flash's.
I would like to change this so that this font is truly
embedded and
called in via ActionScript so that font looks the same on all
computers
whether they have this font or not.
I have tried going to the Library > New Font...
I put the font in there I turned on Exporting for
ActionScript in
Linkage. No dice.
How do I apply a font that is sitting in my library to a
dynamic text
field through ActionScript. I has to be through ActionScript
because the
dynamic text field does not exist until ActionScript creates
it.
-Kirk

Answer 1

Just had to move it down below where the calculations for
width were
made. It works!
_kirk
W. Kirk Lutz wrote:
> I swear I did exactly that, and it didn't work.
>
> Now the font is in there, but the kerning is shot to
hell.
>
> Very weird. Has to do with embedFonts=true
>
> If I comment that out the kerning goes back to normal,
but the font is
> back to the default, Times.
>
>
> -Kirk
>
>
>
> Rob Dillon wrote:
>> Once you've embedded the font. Use the Indentifier
name from the
>> Linkage window to specify the font in a TextFormat
object. Then be
>> sure to specify embedFonts = true for the textField
itself. To borrow
>> from the online help:
>>
>> this.createTextField("mytext",1,100,100,100,100);
>> mytext.multiline = true;
>> mytext.wordWrap = true;
>> mytext.border = true;
>> mytext.embedFonts = true;
>>
>> var myformat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
>> myformat.font = "embeddedFontName";
>>
>> mytext.text = "this is my first test field object
text";
>> mytext.setTextFormat(myformat);
>>