Embedding font in app

Hi,
I'm using LTC Bodoni (via TypeKit) on my website and now I'm working on my digital portfolio: basically HTMl5+CSS, packed with Baker Framework to be published on Apple Store.
I would use the font with @font-face.
I'm wondering if the licence of Bauer Bodoni allows this kind of use.
I want ot be sure before buying the font...
On Bauer Bodoni webpage (http://store2.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=OLS-IT&event=displayFontPackage &code=1294) Embedding licence is set to Editable for this font: so I could embed the font in a digital document and "the embedded font can then be used by the recipient of the electronic document to view, print and further edit or modify the text and structure of the document in which it is embedded."
Using a font inside an app is a little bit different: my final file is not a real document, it's an app. But the recipient (final user) will not be able to modify the document or use the font in no way, because it will be embedded inside the app.
Does someone have any idea?
Does licence cover use inside app or not?
Thanks!
maurizio

ilpiac,
You may try a search for embedding font in this forum and in other forums, such as these:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/design_development/printdesign?view=discussions
http://forums.adobe.com/community/design_development/design?view=discussions
http://forums.adobe.com/community/design_development/webdesign?view=discussions
You may also narrow the search to Dov Isaacs, or hope that he will see and post in this thread (soon).

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Module xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
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 <![CDATA[
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 mimeType='application/x-font')]
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 return SampleTextArea;
 ]]>
 </fx:Script>
</mx:Module>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
 xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
 xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" minWidth="400" minHeight="400">
 <fx:Script>
 <![CDATA[
 import mx.collections.ArrayCollection;
 import mx.core.UIComponent;
 import mx.events.FlexEvent;
 import mx.events.ModuleEvent;
 import mx.managers.SystemManager;
 import mx.modules.IModule;
 import mx.modules.IModuleInfo;
 import mx.modules.Module;
 import mx.modules.ModuleManager;
 import spark.components.TextArea;
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 // add some listeners
 _moduleInfo.addEventListener(ModuleEvent.READY, onModuleReady);
 _moduleInfo.addEventListener(ModuleEvent.ERROR, moduleLoadErrorHandler);
 _moduleInfo.addEventListener(ModuleEvent.UNLOAD, moduleUnloadHandler);
 _moduleInfo.load();
 private function onModuleReady(event:ModuleEvent):void {
 status.text = "The font pack swf Ready \n" + event.module.url;
 //All I had todo was create the module, then I could access the embeded font by name
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 //panelToStuff.addElement(_ta);
 fontMod = null;
 //fontNameForSample = event.module.url.replace(".swf", "");
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 status.text = "Font Module Load Error. \n" +
 event.module.url + "\n"+ event.errorText;
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 status.text = "Font Module Unload Event. \n" + event.module.url;
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 unloadCurrentFont();
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 _ta = null;
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
 xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
 xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" minWidth="400" minHeight="400">
 <fx:Script>
 <![CDATA[
 import mx.collections.ArrayCollection;
 import mx.core.EmbeddedFont;
 import mx.core.EmbeddedFontRegistry;
 import mx.core.IEmbeddedFontRegistry;
 import mx.core.UIComponent;
 import mx.events.FlexEvent;
 import mx.events.ModuleEvent;
 import mx.managers.SystemManager;
 import mx.modules.IModule;
 import mx.modules.IModuleInfo;
 import mx.modules.Module;
 import mx.modules.ModuleManager;
 import spark.components.TextArea;
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 _moduleInfo.addEventListener(ModuleEvent.READY, onModuleReady);
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 </s:VGroup>
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 <s:Button click="_ta.setStyle('fontFamily', 'BPDiet');" label="BPDiet"/>
 </s:VGroup>
</s:Application>
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regards,
Aidan

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s|Label
fontFamily: arialCFF;
fontSize: 20px;
mx|Label
fontFamily: arialNoCFF;
fontSize: 20px;
</fx:Style>
 <s:layout>
 <s:VerticalLayout
 paddingLeft="10"
 paddingTop="10"/>
 </s:layout>
 <s:Label text="This is a label that uses spark"/>
 <mx:Label text="This is a label that uses mx"/>
</s:Application>
I used the Arial.ttf font I found in my mac, though I have also tried with courier new and even the myriad web pro provided with an example in the SDK. Also I have tried with SDKs 4.1, 4.5 and 4.5.1. I have played with the value of advancedAniAliasing as well. Regardless of the combination I will still see differences such as this:
Is this a known issue? Any solutions at hand?
Thanks in advance for the help!!

Hi there,
Thanks for the quick reply. I was able to make fonts display correctly after hacking the display of some components (mx.controls.FormItem for example) however I did notice a whole buch of runtime warnings that showed up as a result of the workaround such as:
warning: incompatible embedded font 'arialCFFFont' specified for mx.core::UITextFormat. This component requires that the embedded font be declared with embedAsCFF=false.
TextFieldAutomationHelper:captureSelection() - 'selectionBeginIndex' is not implemented in FTETextField.
And in some cases for components I do not even use:
warning: incompatible embedded font 'arialCFFFont' specified for mx.controls::TextInput (TextInput1967) . This component requires that the embedded font be declared with embedAsCFF=false.
Any ideas on how to avoid this noise or do we have to live with this?

Resource Bundles and Embedded fonts - best practice

Hello,
I am in digging into creating a localized app and I would
like to use embedded fonts.
Ideally, I would like to have two locales (for example), each
with a different embedded font and/or unicode range.
For example, how do I set up my localized app so that EN uses
Arial (Latin Range), and JP uses Arial Unicode MS with Japanese
Kanji unicode range ?
Note that I do know how to embed fonts with different ranges,
I just don't know how to properly embed them into resource bundles
and access them easily in style sheets.
Thanks!
-Daniel

Hello!
This is a very pertinent question, however as many things in life there is no one size fits all here.
We basically recommend, as best practice, to allocate for each specific context only the estimated needed resources. These values should always come from a previous study on the network patterns/load.
To accomodate for growth and scalability it is strongly advised to initially keep as many resources reserved as possible and allocate the unused resources as needed. To accomplish this goal, you should created a reserved resource class, as you did already, with a guarantee of 20 to 40 percent of all ACE resources and configure a virtual context solely with the purpose of ensuring that these resources are reserved.
As you might already know ACE protects resources in use, this means that when decreasing a context's resources, the resources must be unused before then can be reused by other context. Although it is possible to decrease the resource allocations in real time, it typically requires additional overhead to clear any used resources before reducing them.
Based on the traffic patterns, number of connections, throughput, concurrent SSL connections , etc, for each of the sites you will be deploying you will have a better idea on what might be the estimated needed resources and then assign them to each of the contexts. Thus this is something that greatly depends on customer's network environment.
Hope this helps to clarify your doubts.

AIR 3.0 mx:HTML embedded fonts in external swf - silent craziness

The recent upgrade to AIR 3.0 has hosed our application. We rely heavily on an mx:HTML control to render the UI of our application using javascript and HTML templates. Everything has been working great in production for months, until Adobe released AIR 3.0 last week. We use embedded fonts in our application that our defined in an external .swf (loaded at runtime). The HTML control loads a .css file that references the name of our embedded font "ArialEmbedded" and it all worked great. But now, with 3.0 it does not respect anything in the external .swf. We get the default Times New Roman font in all of our content, and the app crashes with reliability (in debug mode and release mode) without any exceptions being thrown.
Using the Windows Debugger, I have been able to track it down to this call consistently - Webkit!cairo_pattern_get_type with an Access Violation erros - c0000005 .
After some Googling, it seems webkit uses Cairo for the graphics rendering portion of the library, and in this case it is trying to render a specific color.
1) I've tried forcing the moduleLoader on the HTML control to use the moduleLoader of the parent Spark component - to no avail.
2) Did something change with style management and loading external .swf files?
3) Any other help? At this point, I have no idea where to begin. When it crashes, usually during the rendering of items in a grid the AIR process will grab about 2GB of RAM all at once and then stop working with the windows process stopped working dialog.
Thanks for any help,
Steve

Hi,
Could you please open a new bug report on this over at bugbase.adobe.com? Please include sample media, code, project or app to help us reproduce the issue. Finally, once the bug has been added, would you mind posting back with the URL so that others affected can add their votes and comments?
Thanks,
Jian
Adobe Flash Runtime team

Using embedded fonts

Hi,
I've embedded font into an SWF in the following manner:
package resources.fonts
import flash.display.Sprite;
public class _Arial extends Sprite
[Embed(source='c:/windows/fonts/Arial.ttf',
fontName='_Arial')]
public static var _Arial:Class;
Now when I try to load it in my AIR app, I get "IFlexAsset
could not be found" error when the file gets loaded. Any
ideas?

@Flex, thanks. I have tried, and succeeded in making swf containers for fonts in various ways including using the fontswf app but they never seem to be used after I have loaded them in the main application. I have asked a couple of questions here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12846752/embedded-font-flash-text-engine There doesn't seem to be any error message, the font just 'silently' isn't used. Do you think that it just isn't possible? The documentation I've been able to dig up all seems to indicate that it should be; including the sentence I quote above.

Embedding fonts in Air

I know that the release notes say specifically "Currently, using an external font in a style sheet, via the @font-face declaration is not supported", but I am totally confused as to what this actually means. Is there any way to build an HTML Air application that uses custom fonts without using @font-face? What really surprises me is that adl has no problem with embedding fonts via @font-face; but the compiled application simply can't. I have gotten Cufon to work in my application, but it really slows things down and I'm hoping that there is some other way to do this.

Very true... rendering TFs to bitmaps is faster than rendering TFs directly, even with cacheAsBitmap enabled on the text fields.
However, cacheAsBitmap helps prevent memory overruns in some cases, as there are hooks in Flash to garbage collect cached bitmaps early, when they are no longer needed (I believe: even setting visible to false on a TF with CAB will cause the bitmap to be garbage collected -- someone might correct me on that).
This more "active" garbage collection can make the difference sometimes, in GPU mode especially, if you are scolling lots of text fields. In one of my apps, scrolling many bitmaps (rendered TFs) would eventually cause a crash (memory overrun), while scrolling the TFs with CAB enabled was fine. I also had code to set visible to false on objects whose bounds were no longer within the visible stage area.
Note: in the code above, unless "snapshot" or a container thereof is scaled, there is no need to use cacheAsBitmap on a Bitmap (you'd be using twice as much memory for nothing).

Problem embedding fonts with ButtonSkin class with SDK 4.5.1

Hi,
I've an external style file calling into main mobile application which has codes something like these:
@font-face {
 src: url("../fonts/TektonPro-BoldCond.otf");
fontFamily: TektonProBCnd;
embedAsCFF: false;
.buttonStyle {
embedFonts: true;
fontFamily: TektonProBCnd;
fontSize: 24;
skin: ClassReference(null);
.text_listMediumText {
fontFamily: TektonProBCnd;
fontSize: 24;
 color: #666666;
In my application the embedding font styles working properly when directly bind with any component with 'styleName' property (i.e. text_listMediumText). I've also one button something like this:
<s:Button label="CONNECT" skinClass="actionScripts.ui.SketchButtonSkin" click="onConnect()"/>
And the skin class is as follows:
public class SketchButtonSkin extends ButtonSkin
// PRIVATE VARIABLES
 * CONSTRUCTOR
 public function SketchButtonSkin()
 super();
 width = 268;
 height = 50;
// OVERRIDDEN API
// Override this function to prvent the button from drawing a background
 override protected function drawBackground(unscaledWidth:Number,
 unscaledHeight:Number):void{
override protected function
 labelDisplay_valueCommitHandler(event:FlexEvent):void
 labelDisplay.setStyle( "fontSize", 20 );
 labelDisplay.setStyle("fontFamily","TektonProBCnd"); // or, labelDisplay.styleDeclaration = styleManager.getStyleDeclaration(".buttonStyle");
But I not ever could embed the font with this buttonSkin class. Any help please (?)

Try linking a Scroller into your app.

Using an Embedded Font in another .swf

I am encountering a situation with font embedding that hopefully someone out there will know the solution to. This is a slightly boiled-down version of the problem but all the pertinent details are included. Without further ado, here's the situation:
TLDR Version: If I have a font embedded and registered with Font.registerFont(), and I attempt to use that font in a .swf that was compiled from an .fla in Flash CS5 that so much as MENTIONS that font, it fails.
Longer Description:
The Goal: Embed fonts in 1 .swf, use those fonts in many .swfs. Simple.
Fonts.swf
I have 3 .swf files. The first is called Fonts.swf. This was created in Flash CS5. It contains an embedded font( Franklin Gothic Demi ) with characters a-z, A-Z, numerals, and punctuation, etc. Regular, not bold. The font is exported for actionscript and the class is FranklinGothicDemi.
On the main timeline of Fonts.swf is the code:
Font.registerFont( FranklinGothicDemi ).
Application.swf
The second .swf is Application.swf. The following code snippet is from Application.as:
[Embed(source="Fonts.swf")]
private static var EmbeddedFonts:Class;
initFonts()
var embedFont:EmbeddedFonts = new EmbeddedFonts();
embedFont.addEventListener( Event.COMPLETE, function( e:Event ){ traceEmbeddedFonts(); } );
When traceEmbeddedFonts is called, it verifies that Franklin Gothic Demi is in fact registered.
UserInterface.swf
The third .swf file is UserInterface.swf. Fonts are NOT embedded in this file. They are not supposed to be. The project has many .swf files and they should all be using the fonts embedded in Fonts.swf.
On the main timeline of UserInterface, it calls it's own version of traceEmbeddedFonts(), which again confirms that Franklin Gothic Demi is embedded.
Inside UserInterface is a TextField we'll call mMainTextField, with some text, say "Main Menu". The font is "Franklin Gothic Demi", the anti-alias style is 'use device fonts.' I have tried other anti-alias styles as well.
As it turns out, UserInterface.swf is 'embedding' Franklin Gothic Demi, with a character set of a big fat 0 characters. This is taking precedence over the Franklin Gothic Demi font embedded from Fonts.swf. I can side-step this problem by setting mMainTextField to use some other Font while publishing and then using actionscript to change it back to Franklin Gothic Demi when the project is running, but that's not a solution that is friendly to the artists.
In essence, the question is simple: Why is Flash Embedding and Registering fonts with character sets of size 0, despite the fact that nowhere in UserInterface.swf is there a request to embed fonts, and how do I prevent it from doing so?
If anyone who sees this has already encountered and solved this problem and shares the solution with me, you will be my favorite person .
Thanks!
-J

You know, I think its just a bug inside Flash Builder Burrito. When I run my app through the emulator it doesn't display correctly but when I run it on my phone it works as it should.

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