Flash Develop And Design

Runtime Font Embedding in AS3. There is no need to embed the entire fontset anymore.

In an ideal world the Flash Player would allow for dynamic runtime shared font libraries that allow for only a subset of characters to be embeded. In AS2 there were a few ways (hacks) to load font libraries at runtime. Unfortunately none of the AS2 hacks work in Flash CS3 using AS3. There is an answer but it didn't come easy. Read on to learn how to do it and how to get around a compiler bug. Read full article