Special font in program

Question

Hi
In my program i using dymanic text with font 'Campfire'. But as usual users don't have this font on they own pc. And they dont see my font Campfire...
How i can make then users will see Campfire too? Need write special code?(so it will be like user open my program and after this he must download this font? ) or how?
Or maybe need write a way to .ttf ? and put this .ttf on same folder with .swf ? if  yes, how to write do it?
Thanks.

Answer 1

You can either embed the fonts directly in to your swf file by character embedding or creating a font in library panel option, or by embedding an external ttf file. For directly embedding characters, click "Embed Characters" in properties inspector and pick the characters you want to embed. Or you can create a font library asset by clicking the options button in library panel and picking "New Font" then in the "Font Symbol Properties" dialog box tick "Export for ActionScript" and pick a Class name say "foo" for example then use the following code to embed this foo font:
var fooFont:foo = new foo();
var mytxt:TextField = this["txt"]; //txt on stage
var format:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
format.font = fooFont.fontName;
format.color = 0xFF0000;
format.size = 16;
mytxt.embedFonts = true;
mytxt.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
mytxt.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;
mytxt.defaultTextFormat = format;
mytxt.text = "Hello World!";
The other option uses this notation in your code [Embed(source='FONT.TTF', fontName="Font", mimeType="application/x-font-truetype")]. You can read more about this option in http://mx.coldstorageonline.com/index.php?bid=48