How to use Font Symbols (Embedded Fonts) with ActionScript
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
You certainly don’t need ActionScript to make use of embedded fonts. You can always just embed font outlines manually by selecting a text field, then using the Embed button in the Property inspector. Select your range of characters, type in your text, then publish; you’re good to go (and you only need to do it with dynamic and input text fields: static text fields embed font outlines automatically). In fact, if your text field has an instance name — something you can also set in the Property inspector — then you can determine its text content with ActionScript and the embedded font outlines still hold. But if you’re using ActionScript to create text fields on the fly, the mechanics are a bit different. Let’s take a look. Keep reading »
