Question

In Flash 8.If I use a special font to display a label for dynamic text(the content is updated at runtime) is there a way to automatically install this font if not already installed?

Answer 1

you need to embed you font so itll show up on a computer that doesnt have it installed. if you’re using the flash ide, you can select your textfield and click on the embed fint (or embed characters) button beside it. select the characters you want (e.g. only numbers, small letters, basic latin) and you’re good to go.

if you’re using code only, then you can still do it using the Embed metatag (at least i think so, it’s been a while since i used it)

something like

[Embed(source="../someFont.ttf", 
    fontName = "myFont", 
    mimeType = "application/x-font", 
    fontWeight="normal", 
    fontStyle="normal", 
    unicodeRange="englishRange", 
    advancedAntiAliasing="true", 
    embedAsCFF="false")]
private var myEmbeddedFont:Class

to use it, create a textformat object with the font set to the fontname that you specified above. for more in depth, check out http://divillysausages.com/blog/as3_font_embedding_masterclass