How to embed?!

Question

I don't seem to be able to use the embeded fonts! this is how I'm doing it:
in my document class I'm embeding the font like this:
[Embed(source="assets/tahoma.ttf", fontFamily="Tahoma", mimeType="application/x-font-truetype")]
private var tahoma:Class;
and then I registered the font in the constructor:
Font.registerFont(tahoma);
it seems to be embeded because the SWF file increases... now I create my textFlow:
_textFlow = new TextFlow();
_textFlow.fontFamily = "Tahoma";
_textFlow.fontSize = 13;
_textFlow.color = 0x000000;
_textFlow.fontLookup = FontLookup.EMBEDDED_CFF;
_textFlow.renderingMode = RenderingMode.CFF;
_paragraph = new ParagraphElement();
_textFlow.addChild(_paragraph);
_span = new SpanElement();
_span.text = _label.value;
_paragraph.addChild(_span);
_txtContainerController = new ContainerController(_myLabel, NaN, NaN);
_textFlow.flowComposer.addController(_txtContainerController);
_textFlow.flowComposer.updateAllControllers();
I beleive those two highlighted lines are actually responsible for embeding the font? yes? but this is not working for me. any idea why? thanks.

Answer 1

The fontLookup property you've higlighted tells TLF to use the embedded font.
This sample code embeds a font:
[Embed(mimeType="application/x-font", exportSymbol="myArial_bold_normal", embedAsCFF="true", fontWeight="bold", source="arialbd.ttf", fontName="myArial")]
public class myArial_bold_normal extends mx.core.FontAsset
I believe the main thing you are missing is the embedAsCFF="true" on the Embed tag.
Hope that helps,
Richard