Embedding fonts as SWF

Hi all,
I am working on a mobile actionsxcript project and am having trouble embedding some fonts. The fonts are embedded in SWF files as only a small subset is needed and I am trying to embed the SWF files in my AS build and then access the fonts via their linkage names.
I am not having any luck but am not really sure of the exact approach here so if anyone can shed any light or provide a tutorial/example that would be great as I am about to start banging my head on stuff.
I am embedding the font swf like this:
[Embed(source="assets/newfonts/FontFile.swf", symbol="fontInstanceName")]
public var FontBold:Class;
I assume I need to construct an instance and cast it before I can use the font (maybe wrong about this) but am unsure of the details.
Thanks in advance for any help.

Turns out to be really (embarressingly) simple and I'm not sure how it took me so long to get working.
Add a new font to the library in Flash.
Give it a linkage name and set it to export for actionscript.
Publish the SWF
Embed the swf in the actionscript project using [Embed(source="assets/newfonts/FontLib.swf", symbol="TestFontBold")]public var TestFontBold:Class;
Set the 'symbol' parameter in the embed tag to be the flash linkage name of the font.
Create a TextFormat object
Create a Font object - var newFont:Font = new TestFontBold();
Set myTextFormat.font = TestFontBold.fontName;
Apply the TextFormat as usual.
No idea how I had so much trouble with this when it is so obvious and straighforward. Oh well, that's often the case (with me at least)
Cheers

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[svn] 1384: Splitting DefineFont into the various DefineFont 1, 2, 3, etc SWF tag formats but retaining a common base DefineFont class so that embedded fonts are still retained as symbols for the SWF dictionary no matter what version of the SWF tag is us

Revision: 1384
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-04-24 07:54:58 -0700 (Thu, 24 Apr 2008)
Log Message:
Splitting DefineFont into the various DefineFont 1, 2, 3, etc SWF tag formats but retaining a common base DefineFont class so that embedded fonts are still retained as symbols for the SWF dictionary no matter what version of the SWF tag is used.
Also improving [Embed] so that it can recognize .TTC files as assets (previously these were only recognized through CSS @font-face rules).
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Doc: No
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flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/media/AbstractTranscoder.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/media/FontTranscoder.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/util/MimeMappings.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/tools/PreLink.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/fonts/CachedFontManager.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/Dictionary.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/MovieEncoder.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/TagDecoder.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/TagEncoder.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/TagHandler.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/TagValues.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/builder/tags/FontBuilder.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tags/DefineFont.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tags/DefineFontAlignZones.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tags/DefineFontInfo.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tools/SwfxPrinter.java
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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.
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We have created a swf for a given font (for e.g., Calibri.swf) which contains all the styles (Regular, Italic, Bold, BoldItalic).
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My recommendation: unless you really care about ISWFContext implementations and the application domain issues, ignore Alex's post about embedded fonts.
It is a nice discussion about the inner workings of the domain and security of how this works but it is imho broken and is an insane concept to require an ISWFContext to just use an embedded font. It also breaks runtime CSS loading that has fonts embedded in it because the Flex compiler (last I checked) was also busted – it doesn't include the function necessary to create within context the font embed so that it may be applied. You can't create an ISWFContext with a compiled CSS file.
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http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

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       Error TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert Slide1@f56fce9 to mx.core.IFlexModuleFactory. !
        Below red colored text is the code where the exception occurs.
        var fontClass:Class = ApplicationDomain.currentDomain.getDefinition("slide1") as Class;
      textFlow.flowComposer.swfContext = new fontClass();
        textFlow.flowComposer.addController(new ContainerController(textContainer, containerWidth, containerHeight));
        textFlow.flowComposer.updateAllControllers();
        And, when I load the slide1.swf in Only MX Flex Poject, it shows the embedded Font.
    Using Flex 4.5 SDK:--
        With MX+ Spark and MX only Flex Project we get following errors
        VerifyError: Error #1053: Illegal override of createGeometry in flashx.textLayout.elements.FlowGroupElement.
        VerifyError: Error #1053: Illegal override of canReleaseContentElement in flashx.textLayout.elements.SubParagraphGroupElement.
        VerifyError: Error #1103: Class flashx.textLayout.elements::LinkElement cannot extend final base class.
        VerifyError: Error #1053: Illegal override of display in flashx.textLayout.elements.ContainerFormattedElement.
        VerifyError: Error #1053: Illegal override of canReleaseContentElement in flashx.textLayout.elements.FlowLeafElement.
        VerifyError: Error #1053: Illegal override of addParaTerminator in flashx.textLayout.elements.SpanElement.
        VerifyError: Error #1053: Illegal override of canReleaseContentElement in flashx.textLayout.elements.InlineGraphicElement.
        VerifyError: Error #1053: Illegal override of minPercentValue in flashx.textLayout.property.NumberOrPercentProperty.
        VerifyError: Error #1053: Illegal override of hash in flashx.textLayout.property.EnumStringProperty.
        VerifyError: Error #1053: Illegal override of hash in flashx.textLayout.property.BooleanProperty.
        VerifyError: Error #1053: Illegal override of minValue in flashx.textLayout.property.NumberProperty.
        VerifyError: Error #1014: Class flashx.textLayout.property::NumberProperty could not be found.
        VerifyError: Error #1053: Illegal override of minValue in flashx.textLayout.property.IntProperty.
        VerifyError: Error #1014: Class flashx.textLayout.property::IntProperty could not be found.
        VerifyError: Error #1053: Illegal override of hash in flashx.textLayout.property.UintProperty.
        VerifyError: Error #1014: Class flashx.textLayout.property::UintProperty could not be found.
        VerifyError: Error #1053: Illegal override of hash in flashx.textLayout.property.StringProperty.
        VerifyError: Error #1014: Class flashx.textLayout.property::NumberOrPercentProperty could not be found.
        VerifyError: Error #1053: Illegal override of hash in flashx.textLayout.property.ArrayProperty.
        VerifyError: Error #1103: Class flashx.textLayout.elements::TCYElement cannot extend final base class.
        VerifyError: Error #1053: Illegal override of createTextLine in flashx.textLayout.compose.ComposeState.

Hi Jin-Huang
          But when I use Simple ASProject with SDK 4.1 then it works fine but when I create Flex project then it give error
with SWFContext.
I think it's a issue of swfcontext or AS comunication with Spark components.
Please let me know if any solution.
Thanks

Spark DataGrid Embedded Font Quandary

01. In everything that follows, I am talking about the latest [21328] version of the SDK, not that I believe that my problems have anything to do with that release, just so anyone interested and willing to help will know the version.
02. My application happens to be rooted in AIR's WindowedApplication, but again, I do not think that has any impact on my problems; I believe the same results would obtain for a Flex Application.
03. I have a custom renderer for the Spark DataGrid which extends DefaultGridItemRenderer. It works fine. Its primary job is to change the font characteristics of each row in the list as a visual clue to the user as to the specific nature of the content that is accessible. Some entries are just in the Regular font, some in Bold, some in Italic, and some in Bold-Italic.
04. I have, for most of the project, embedded the necessary fonts like this:
    [Embed (source="C:/Windows/Fonts/ArnoPro-Caption.otf", fontName="ArnoPro_BI_4",
        fontStyle="italic",
        fontWeight="bold",
        mimeType="application/x-font",
        embedAsCFF="true",
        unicodeRange="U+0021-U+00ff, U+20ac-U+20ac")]
    private const ArnoPro_BI_4:Class;
As I said, that all works just as advertized. But, that method of embedding carries the somewhat painful burden of slower compilations, so for the last 24 hours I have unseccessfully been trying to replace that with:
[Embed (source = "../resources/assets/ArnoPro_BI_4.swf", symbol="ArnoPro_BI_4")]
private const ArnoPro_BI_4:Class;
where the swf file was produced via fontswf, using this incantation:
fontswf -4 -u U+0021-U+00ff,U+20ac-U+20ac -b -i -a ArnoPro_BI_4 -o ArnoPro_BI_4.swf C:/Windows/Fonts/ArnoPro-Caption.otf
06. By all that is holy, the two different means of embedding the font ought to yield the same result, but they do not. I have debugging code inserted to print out the list of fonts upon initiation of the application, and they are identical. Both means of embedding do succeed in getting the embedded fonts into the .swf, but the attempt to use the fonts fails using the second approach.
There is, of course, no change being made to the code in the item renderer which merely uses setStyle() to effect the row-by-row result. The result in the second case is that the only style of the embedded font that renders is 'regular'.
07. I have used the 'keep-generated' facility to look at the code being generated by the mxmlc compiler and can see that different code is emitted, but it does not help me find a fix to the problem. Both forms of the meta-tag do something; both methods of embedding seem to correctly register themselves with the FontManager, but only the method of embedding which actually performs the transcoding during compilation seems to result in a set of registered fronts which can be found and correctly used to render output based on the runtime setting of the font style.

Thank for the reply
I hoped that my posting indicated how the fonts in the the .swf file were constructed. The "-4", argument to the command-line tool, fontswf, as far as I can tell, is the precise analog to the "embedAsCFF" argument in the [Embed] syntax. That is what makes it so perplexing. Given all the external documentation that is available for each tool/methodology, I would have thought that the resultant bytecodes, classes, flags, whatever, would have been identical. The only difference would be the timing of when the transcoding took place.
Since it is clearly more efficient to only transcode whatever set of fonts an application needs once, not once per build/test turn-around, I would really like to make the fontswf workflow work. For those of us outside the beneficial environment of your licensed tools, the kindly-provided alternative to the facilities built into Flash Professional and/or Flash Builder give us the greatest degree of productivity.
Whoever has access to the source code for Font [I can only see the uninteresting FontAsset in the SDK] can probably determine what difference might result from mxmlc working with this intermediate output, when inline transcoding is 'tagged':
package
import mx.core.FontAsset;
[ExcludeClass]
[Embed(fontName="ArnoPro_IT_4", _resolvedSource="C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/ArnoPro-ItalicCaption.otf", fontStyle="italic", _line="1189", _pathsep="true", embedAsCFF="true", fontWeight="normal", unicodeRange="U+0021-U+00ff, U+20ac-U+20ac", source="C:/Windows/Fonts/ArnoPro-ItalicCaption.otf", _column="2", exportSymbol="AIRZoom_ArnoPro_IT_4", _file="G:/FP/AIRZoom/src/AIRZoom_AS.as", mimeType="application/x-font")]
public class AIRZoom_ArnoPro_IT_4 extends mx.core.FontAsset
    public function AIRZoom_ArnoPro_IT_4()
        super();
versus this, when swf extraction is 'tagged':
package
import mx.core.FontAsset;
[ExcludeClass]
[Embed(fontName="ArnoPro_IT_4", _resolvedSource="C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/ArnoPro-ItalicCaption.otf", fontStyle="italic", _line="1191", _pathsep="true", embedAsCFF="true", fontWeight="normal", unicodeRange="U+0021-U+00ff, U+20ac-U+20ac", source="C:/Windows/Fonts/ArnoPro-ItalicCaption.otf", _column="2", exportSymbol="AIRZoom_ArnoPro_IT_4", _file="G:/FP/AIRZoom/src/AIRZoom_AS.as", mimeType="application/x-font")]
public class AIRZoom_ArnoPro_IT_4 extends mx.core.FontAsset
    public function AIRZoom_ArnoPro_IT_4()
        super();
The only difference is that value for '_line' which probably only indicates that one of the two processes has a comment or empty line somewhere.

Missing characters in CFF embedded fonts

Our application loads embedded fonts on the fly. I'm in the process of converting our text handling to FTE and switching over to CFF fonts, but I've noticed that for a couple of fonts, there are characters that are damaged, or missing entirely. The same text renders correctly when the font is installed as a system font, and also when it's embedded in the non-CFF format, so CFF embedding is choking on something, but I have no idea what. Nor do I see a lot of knobs that I can twist to control the CFF output.
For example, Budmo Jiggler (http://www.dafont.com/budmo-jiggler.font). When embedded as CFF, the letter "B" isn't rendering correctly:
This occurs in both the 10.3 and 11.3 players.
My embedding code is autogenerated for all fonts and looks like this:
// GENERATED FILE - DO NOT EDIT
package {
 import flash.display.Sprite;
 import flash.text.Font;
 [SWF(width="800", height="600", backgroundColor="#FFFFFF", frameRate="30")]
 public class BUDMO extends Sprite {
 [Embed(source='/Users/bsharon/src/Bueller/as/fonts/ttf/Budmo Jiggle/BUDMO.ttf',
 mimeType="application/x-font",
 fontName='embedded_BUDMO',
 unicodeRange='U+0000-U+00FF',
 embedAsCFF='true',
 fontWeight='normal',
 fontStyle='normal')]
 public static var embedded_BUDMO:Class;
 [Embed(source='/Users/bsharon/src/Bueller/as/fonts/ttf/Budmo Jiggle/BUDMOB.ttf',
 mimeType="application/x-font",
 fontName='embedded_BUDMO',
 unicodeRange='U+0000-U+00FF',
 embedAsCFF='true',
 fontWeight='bold',
 fontStyle='normal')]
 public static var embedded_BUDMO_Bold:Class;
 trace("Registering font embedded_BUDMO");
 Font.registerFont(embedded_BUDMO);
 trace("Registering font embedded_BUDMO_Bold");
 Font.registerFont(embedded_BUDMO_Bold);
The code is compiled like so: mxmlc --static-link-runtime-shared-libraries -output <swf_file> <as3_file>. There are no warnings.
So...what do I try next?

I will close my own question by saying that if I convert the TTF files to OpenType, the problem goes away. I would have preferred not to bang my head on this particular wall, but at least I have a workaround now.

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