Using embedded Fonts in FONT tag. Possible?

I've been pulling my hair out for days trying to get this
working. (luckily I have a lot of hair)
I have been able to successfully embed my custom font so that
it displays properly in all components. I can set the style of a
textarea to use a style with the embedded fontface and it also
shows up nicely. What I CAN'T seem to do is use the textarea
 tag to display only a selected portion
of text within a text area with the applied font.
At this point I don't expect answers. It seems (from the
amount of searching I've done, and the number of people who have
asked me if I've found an answer yet) that no one (at least in the
english speaking world that I am sadly confined to) knows how to
make this work. Can someone please just tell me whether or not this
is a bug so I can stop wasting my time trying to figure it out?
Thanks,
M

Actually, I got that example to work... here are the changes
I made...
<mx:htmlText>
<![CDATA[You can vary the font
size, color, face, or any combination
of the three.]]>
</mx:htmlText>
As I said above, I have found errors in the code of the help
docs... this is yet another one of them. Usually its spaces in the
wrong place, or no space at all, or missing ) or ], or a case
sensitivity issue.
If you got your custom font to display, that should work...
but then again.. what should work, doesn't always.

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Web browsers always use aliased fonts if possible

This is screwy, folks. I needed to install xorg-fonts-100dpi and xorg-fonts-75dpi in order to get KWord working properly, and now Konqueror is *always* using 75dpi fonts for *everything* on *all* web pages, even though my font configuration (the default!) looks like this:
Standard font: Bitstream Vera Sans
Fixed font: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
Serif font: Bitstream Vera Serif
Sans serif font: Bitstream Vera Sans
Cursive tont: Bitstream Vera Sans
Fantasy font: Bitstream Vera Sans
Now, whatever bloody fonts Konqueror is using now, they look aliased and generally hideous and sure as hell are not Bitstream fonts! :x Could someone please help me sort this out?
Edit: here's a screenshot...
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Ugly or what?

I dont think this is a bug at all......
From what it looks like... Konqueror is doing the correct thing.
font,th,td,p { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif }
Those are the fonts specified to be used throughout the CSS of the site.
Load this up and see what you get. (yes its a hideous non standard mix of xhtml and html4 as well as using dirty tags instead of css. shoot me.)
<html>
<body>
Verdana. Is this aliased? 
Helvetica. Is this aliased? 
Arial. This is always aliased. 
</body>
</html>
My system doesnt seem to have Verdana and Arial, so I get a generic sans font for them. But it does have helvetica.
Konqueror is correctly noting that the system doesnt have verdana, and falling back to arial, which I also don't seem to have, and finally falling back to Helvetica, which by nature is an aliased font.
Your specified sans-serif font is only used when all three of the web page's specified fonts are unavailable.
So no bug on konqeror's behalf. It's behaving correctly. Maybe its that the primary listed fonts are incorrectly installed, not installed, or for some unforseen reason, unusable by kde.
AFAIK, Arial and Verdana are MS fonts, so installing webcore (ttf-ms-fonts) and restarting KDE/X ought to fix this problem.
iphitus
edit: and as expected, installing ttf-ms-fonts fixed it. you might need to wait a while for kde to pick em up though, or restart kde.

[svn:fx-trunk] 10545: Make DataGrid smarter about when and how to calculate the modulefactory for its renderers when using embedded fonts

Revision: 10545
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-09-23 13:33:21 -0700 (Wed, 23 Sep 2009)
Log Message:
Make DataGrid smarter about when and how to calculate the modulefactory for its renderers when using embedded fonts
QE Notes: 2 Mustella tests fail:
components/DataGrid/DataGrid_HaloSkin/Properties/datagrid_properties_columns_halo datagrid_properties_columns_increase0to1_halo
components/DataGrid/DataGrid_SparkSkin/Properties/datagrid_properties_columns datagrid_properties_columns_increase0to1
These fixes get us to measure the embedded fonts correctly when going from 0 columns to a set of columns so rowHeight will be different (and better) in those scenarios
Doc Notes: None
Bugs: SDK-15241
Reviewer: Darrell
API Change: No
Is noteworthy for integration: No
tests: checkintests mustella/browser/DataGrid
Ticket Links:
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-15241
Modified Paths:
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/controls/DataGrid.as
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/controls/dataGridClasses/DataGridBase .as
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/controls/dataGridClasses/DataGridColu mn.as

Hi Matthias,
Sorry, if this reply seems like a products plug (which it is), but this is really how we solve this software engineering challenge at JKI...
At JKI, we create VI Packages (which are basically installers for LabVIEW instrument drivers and toolkits) of our reusable code (using the package building capabilities of VIPM Professional). We keep a VI Package Configuration file (that includes a copy of the actual packages) in each of our project folders (and check it into source code control just as we do for all our project files). We also use VIPM Enterprise to distribute new VI Packages over the network.
Also, as others have mentioned, we use the JKI TortoiseSVN Tool to make it easy to use TortoiseSVN directly from LabVIEW.
Please feel free to contact JKI if you have any specific questions about these products.
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-Jim

When is it a good idea, if ever, to use the font tag?

Wonder if there is ever a need to use the tag since it is deprecated in HTML 3.801.
This is some text!

(sidenote: this was a trick question...it was deprecated in HTML 4.01 )
I'm still on my first cup of coffee, but wasn't it deprecated in 4.0?
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40-971218/present/graphics.html#h-15.2.2
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/graphics.html#edef-FONT
And obsoleted in 4.01 Strict (recommended since 1999)
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#version-info
and obsolete in XHTML 1.01 (if not XHTML 1.0)?
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/doctype.html#s_doctype
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Keep-On-Learnin'

How to use embedded font

Hi all,
I have a flex application where i want to rotate the textarea.I have a mxml file and a .as file.I want to use the embedded font in my application.But I don't know anything.Please advice me details and also how to proceed to create embedded font,how to create the ttf file?I am not using any package and not using library path.
Please help me.Thanks in advance.

FangAvatar,
looks like the same question as the other one we are talking about. The Live docs page
http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flex/3/html/help.html?content=fonts_04.html
has ane xample with rotated labels just oevr half way down the page.
If you are having trouble navigating with this link, just go to the root
http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flex/3/html/help.html
then in the contents bar on the left open up
User interfaces
...using fonts
......using embedded fonts
the section is just above the heading "Using advanced anti-aliasing"
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Possible to use embedded font in TLFTextField, with TextFormat?

I want to be able to dynamically change the font in a TLFTextField to an embedded font (not a device font). I'm using Flash CS5.
The only way I've found a TLFTextField will use an embedded font is if the on-stage TLFTextField has been set to use that font through the Flash UI. The example code I've found online (Font.registerFont etc) all works fine for a TextField, but not TLFTextField.
Below is a very simple piece of code that I expected to work. I have a font (Earwig Factory) embedded in my library (as DF4, linkage "Earwig"), and the isFontCompatible trace call prints "true", but still it is using the device font - if I remove the system font from my machine (or view the SWF on another machine) it falls back to Times New Roman.
Can anyone give a very simple example of a TLFTextField dynamically selecting an embedded font? Eventually I would like to store my fonts in a separate SWC / SWF, but for now just working out of the Library would be a good start.
Thanks,
Grant
import flash.text.TextFormat;
import flash.text.AntiAliasType;
import flash.text.FontStyle;
import fl.text.TLFTextField;
import flash.text.engine.FontLookup;
var format:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
format.font = "Earwig Factory"
trace("Earwig Factory isFontCompatible: " + tf.isFontCompatible("Earwig Factory", FontStyle.REGULAR) );
tf.defaultTextFormat = format;
tf.embedFonts = true;
//tf.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;
tf.setTextFormat(format);
//tf.textFlow.fontLookup = FontLookup.EMBEDDED_CFF;

Ok, I have some success - I can get an on-stage TLFTextField to dynamically use an embedded font. However, this is quite complex, and doesn't use a TextFormat. And is this seriously the way Adobe intends us to do it - if so perhaps this should be documented better?
import fl.text.TLFTextField;
import flashx.textLayout.formats.TextLayoutFormat;
import flashx.textLayout.elements.TextFlow;
import flash.text.TextFormat;
import flash.text.AntiAliasType;
import flash.text.FontStyle;
import flash.text.Font;
import flash.text.engine.FontLookup;
import flashx.textLayout.edit.ISelectionManager;
import flashx.textLayout.edit.EditManager;
import flashx.textLayout.edit.SelectionState;
var updateTF:TLFTextField = stageTF;
var applyFont:Font = new Earwig();
updateTF.embedFonts = true;
var tlfFormat:TextLayoutFormat = new TextLayoutFormat();
tlfFormat.fontFamily = applyFont.fontName;
tlfFormat.fontLookup = FontLookup.EMBEDDED_CFF;
updateTF.textFlow.invalidateAllFormats();
updateTF.textFlow.hostFormat = tlfFormat;
var prevManager:ISelectionManager = updateTF.textFlow.interactionManager;
var editManager:EditManager = new EditManager();
var sel:SelectionState = new SelectionState(updateTF.textFlow, 0, updateTF.text.length);
updateTF.textFlow.interactionManager = editManager;
editManager.applyLeafFormat(tlfFormat, sel);
updateTF.textFlow.interactionManager = prevManager;
updateTF.textFlow.flowComposer.updateAllControllers();

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.

How to use embedded font (CFF) for Flash CS4?

Hi,
I am trying to embed "Arial Unicode MS" for use by TLF in my Flash CS4 project. As I googled around, I am using the "Flex SWC" approach, only not having any luck. Here is what I got:
//Code in Flex ActionScript project:
package
    public class FontEmbeds
        [Embed(source='C:/Windows/Fonts/ARIALUNI.TTF',
                fontFamily='ArialUnicodeMS',
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When I am trying to instantiate this class, I have AS code in my Flash main timeline:
var font:Font = new FontEmbeds_Font1();
Flash compiler says: "1067: Implicit coercion of a value of type FontEmbeds_Font1 to an unrelated type flash.text:Font."
Ok. Now after I changed it to:
var font:FontEmbeds_Font1 = new FontEmbeds_Font1();
Flash gives 3 errors:
"VerifyError: Error #1014: Class mx.core::FontAsset could not be found.
ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable TextLayout is not defined.
ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable MainTimeline is not defined."
I am assuming I have to create a Font1 object in order to use the embedded font. Is this assumption correct? As I've tried to use the "fontFamily" directly but Flash didn't seem to find the font at all:
charFormat.fontFamily = "ArialUnicodeMS";
Thanks.

Hi Eric,
Thanks for the info.
I've tried to use the "fontFamily" directly but Flash didn't seem to find the font at all:
charFormat.fontFamily = "ArialUnicodeMS";
In one fla where I used pure TFL, nothing gets rendered at all in the container Sprite. Flash doesn't throw any errors either. In another fla where I used a ComboBox, etc. along with TFL, it throws an error says it can't compile since "there is no ActionScript found" and I got a screen where all the Flash components were flickering. After several attempts, Flash crashed.
Also as a side note, the swc gets generated by Flash Builder Beta 2, at first it was 18mb and the second time I complied it become 9mb and stayed 9mb afterwards. Not sure if that's a concern.
Geng

(How) can I use Embeded Fonts in Flex 3.3

If I understand correctly, I need to transcode/embed the fonts in Flex 4 / CS 4, but is there any way to then get those embeded fonts into a Flex 3.3 application?

Support for DefineFont4 (the cff property) is new in Flex Gumbo. It is not available in Flex 3.X. That said – I do have a solution for you. Create a separate Flex Gumbo project and use the cff property to embed the font you need into that SWF. Then embed the font SWF that you just created in Gumbo into your Flex 3.3 application.
Check out the “Building a Font SWF for use in any Flash Application” section in my DefineFont4 blog post:
http://blogs.adobe.com/tlf/2008/11/embedded_font_subsetting_using.html
Here is an article on embedding a SWF in Flex:
http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/10/25/embedding-fonts-from-a-flash-swf-file-into-a-flex- application/
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Using embeded fonts in loaded swf.

I have a .Swf, which has 3 fonts embedded in it, they are all exported in frame 1 for AS. This swf loads any number of external .swfs which have dynamically generated textfields inside of them. This text must be embedded text because effects may be applied to them. I do not want to embed the three fonts into every external swf, and do not think I should have to. The font exists in the Loading swf and I have registered the fonts to the global font list. If I print this list from the loaded swf, all three fonts are present, but when I try to use any of them, my textfiels are empty.
My question is how do I utilize a font which is embedded in a swf, from a swf which has been loaded into that swf?
From my external swf, this code:
[PHP]var embeddedFonts:Array = Font.enumerateFonts(false);
embeddedFonts.sortOn("fontName", Array.CASEINSENSITIVE);
trace(embeddedFonts);[/PHP]
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[PHP][object CenturyBook],[object MyriadProRegular],[object MyriadProItalic][/PHP]
which are the three fonts that are embedded in the loading swf, So I assume the LOADED swf has access to these fonts.
When I apply this code to the externally loaded swf:
[PHP]var FontClass:Class = getDefinitionByName("MyriadProRegular") as Class;
trace("FontClassInstance -> " + FontClass.toString());
var linkedFont: Font = new FontClass();
trace("Font name: " + linkedFont.fontName);
var textFormat: TextFormat = new TextFormat(linkedFont.fontName, 14);
//... The next lines set up the text box and apply the format. I am sure this is done correctly.
[/PHP]
I get the following output:
[PHP]FontClassInstance -> [class MyriadProRegular]
Font name: Myriad Pro[/PHP]
which is exactly what I would expect. Yet, my text box is still blank. I have embedText = true on the text box, and have applied a string to the "text" property, so it's nothing silly liek that.
Any help would be appreciated...

You may also want to look at the various embedded font format issues. Many of the Flex 4 components use a newer embedded font fortmat, which is not the same as the one generally used in Flash. So even if ther Flash font gets registered properly, it still may not work with some of the spark components.
You should be able to create a swf using Flex that contains fonts embedded in either format, which can then be used in the way you describe, though, since Flex 4 suports both font formats.
Hopefully, someone else will jump in here if I got some of this wrong.
-JM

Trouble with Preview not using embedded fonts in a PDF

I have a client I'm working with that is generating PDF reports for various organizations in various languages. They are using an Arial Unicode font but are using different encoding for some of the more unique languages. To ensure the report will be viewable regardless of installed fonts, they are embedding the font.
Most of the languages are showing up fine in preview, but three languages are giving me trouble. Specifically Greek, Russian and Thai which are using encoding EL8MSWIN1253, CP1251, and TH8TISASCII.
Basically the question is whether there is some toggle that will tell Preview to use the embedded font? Or something we can put into the PDF (the pdf is created using FPDF) that will allow a user to know which font/encoding they'll need to install in order to properly view the document? (I'm actually trying to figure that out myself...which font I need to install to get preview to view the document properly).
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Actually, I got that example to work... here are the changes
I made...
<mx:htmlText>
<![CDATA[You can vary the font
size, color, face, or any combination
of the three.]]>
</mx:htmlText>
As I said above, I have found errors in the code of the help
docs... this is yet another one of them. Usually its spaces in the
wrong place, or no space at all, or missing ) or ], or a case
sensitivity issue.
If you got your custom font to display, that should work...
but then again.. what should work, doesn't always.

Using embeded fonts

I know how to do it in flash, but i believe the process is different.
For example in Flash i would create a new Font for Arial. Does Flex have something similar?

You can embed fonts in Flex like this:
ActionScript Example:
[Embed(systemFont="Tahoma",fontName="regularFont",mimeType="application/x-font")]
private var myFont:Class;
CSS Synthax:
@font-face {
    src: url("location") | local("name");
    fontFamily: alias;
    [fontStyle: normal | italic | oblique;]
    [fontWeight: normal | bold | heavy;]
    [advancedAntiAliasing: true | false;]

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hi there guys, I've been trying to use embedded fonts within my htmlText. However, it seems like it only shows the bold/normal fonts and it ignores the italics. The italics part of htmlText shows up as normal weight/ normal style font.
Here's what I am doing (am i doing anything wrong?):
I embed my fonts within a .css file:
@font-face {
 src: local("Verdana");
 fontFamily: myFontFamily;
 advancedAntiAliasing: true;
 fontWeight: bold;
 fontStyle: italic;
@font-face {
 src: local("Verdana");
 fontFamily: myFontFamily;
 advancedAntiAliasing: true;
 fontWeight: normal;
 fontStyle: italic;
@font-face {
 src: local("Verdana");
 fontFamily: myFontFamily;
 advancedAntiAliasing: true;
 fontWeight: normal;
 fontStyle: normal;
@font-face {
 src: local("Verdana");
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dears,
I use TextFlowUtil.importFromString and FlowLeafElement to make each some text have its own style, every some words have diffirent color, fontFamily, fontSize....etc
that is done here in the text attribute in this xml tag, and TextFlowUtil.importFromString and FlowLeafElement make taht perfect:
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I use Flex SDK 4.5,
what can i do ?
Thank you in advance,
amt

To use embedded fonts in a Flex component, the fontFamily for the component needs to be set to an embedded font that is in the same SWF as the other embedded fonts in the TextFlow. See my blog for more details
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

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I am attempting to use a non-standard font in an HTML dynamic textbox using the tag. I have embedded this font using the textbox properties box and the fonts appear in the library. According to previous posts to this form, that should do it. But, my fonts are not appearing correctly. Any advice?

OK,
I have given up messing with stylesheets, trying display:
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XML.ignoreWhiteSpace, and XML.prettyPrinting etc.
I went down the route of encodeURI, using a RegExp to strip
out all tabs, linefeeds and carriage returns. This now gives
consistent results for all situations, even embedded and none
embedded fonts.
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