Embedding .swf font Success?

Has anybody had any success whatsover using style
declarations in order to embed fonts into a Flex application? I've
found a few posts (on this forum, even) but no consensus THAT IT
HAS EVER WORKED.
If people have had success, can you please share your
process? I have experience with sIFR 1/2/3, using Flash fonts, etc.
Here is my style declarations.
@font-face {
src:url("interstate.swf");
fontFamily: "Interstate";
@font-face {
src:url("interstate.swf");
fontFamily: "Interstate";
fontWeight: bold;
}

Works for me. Well, sort of. Fonts renders fine on screen and
prints ok(ish) from Windows, but printing from Mac is completely
unreadable.
I created the swf creation for the fonts I need using the
"procedure" on page 651 of the dev guide. The make sure you
embedded them as a style somewhere higher up in your UI tree so the
styles cascade down and then it just works.
Example:
In parent.mxml:
<mx:Style>
@font-face {
src: url("/font/Fonts.swf");
fontFamily: "Font Name";
.printFont5 {
fontFamily:"Font Name";
fontSize:5;
</mx:Style>
In a UI component that is a child or parent.mxml
<mx:Label ... styleName="printFont5"/>
All works well.
As I said, the only problem that I have is that it won't
print on Mac (looks fine on screen and looks good and prints from
Windows).
Robert.

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We need to load in fonts at runtime due to localization needs. I've got this working in an AS3 project in Flex by embedding the font in a class and then loading that swf into another class and registering the font.
What I need now is to be able to use that font class in MXML components like a spark label. I can't seem to get it to work though. I've tried referencing the swf in a style sheet, then making a style class in the CSS using that font like this:
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Thank you, that worked! I actually didn't know exactly how to do that at first but I found this great blog post that explains it:
http://www.softwarebyrichard.com/content/embedding-fonts-flex-4

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Hi, New user to Flash here with a problem embedding .SWF
files. I have already existing SWF files that I have called
historically from HTML using <object> to embed the object and
<param name= value=> also to pass it information. The SWF
movie I need to embed basically builds a graph and takes its data
from the location you supply it in <param name= value=>
field. This code is not mine and I can't alter it.
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Tom,
> What I want to do is construct a flash version of my
site
> and embed these graphs within a flash textfield.
That's a really interesting approach. At first, I didn't
understand
what you were aiming for, but it sounds to me like you're
tying to use HTML
inside a Flash text field -- which is doable, to some extent
-- and embed an
external SWF in that HTML ... all within Flash.
> I have been able to successfully embed a test SWF file
> using <img> tags on a text field --->
That does work, but it's about the closest you'll get, I'm
afraid. It's
only happenstance that Flash's very narrow (and somewhat
unique) version of
HTML accepts SWFs in an <img> tag.
> but here is my question. How do I support the <param
name=
> value=> functionality I got when I called these
graphs from
> HTML using <object>?
Flash only supports a very limited subset of the HTML
language. You can
see the full list of supported tags by searching the phrase
"supported tags"
in the documentation (specifically, the Learning ActionScript
2.0 in Flash
book). For better or worse, <object>, <param>,
and <embed> are simply not
in that list.
> Any help at all is greatly appreciated.
Your only choice is to use one of the more traditional
methods of
loading external SWFs, such as loadMovie(),
MovieClip.loadMovie(), or the
MovieClipLoader class. Once your external SWF is loaded, you
may "feed" it
variables that should be detectable by the ActionScript
inside the loaded
SWF.
David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays:
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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As i posted in another forum the problem was in the free flex example which i used to add another state and by using SWFLoader to embed my swf file.
Now i was created my own flex app and add SWFLoader to embed my swf and voila - it works!
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After going through a lot of articles already available, I found answers with varying views on the following questions:-
1) Can we embed swf files using the embed tag in air app for ios, with symbols exported ?
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I read somewhere else, that you can actually embed symbols separately by providing symbol tag in embed tag but not entire swf (which leads to uncompiled actionscript error) but not sure about this as this is contradictory to finding #1.
3) If #2 is possible, then do embedding two different swfs with same symbol names would cause a conflict and result in #3747 error ?
Please note I am not asking about the Loader class here but using the Embed keyword for embedding swfs.
Also do the results differ with AIRSDK 3.8 and 3.9 and using different swf-version in compiler flags ?
In our application we started getting error #3747 in class creation of one of the embedded swfs (like new EmbeddedClass()) when we changed from swf-version 17 to 21 using AIRSDK 3.8. So was this error not there earlier or it was there but swf-version was suppressing it ?
Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks!

I am fairly sure that the answer to your questions is: “no”.
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