flash cs4 loading font from external swf

Here is a pretty basic overview of how to load fonts from a .swf, great for sites that have many languages, particularly asian characters, where you may need to specify characters or fonts while not wanting to load them all into a single swf.

Note: this is for flash CS4 as it utilizes the mxmlc embed tag which gives you more control over font loading.

add embed tag in empty fla

[code lang="actionscript"]

[Embed (systemFont="Arial" fontName="myFont")]

var myFont:Class

[/code]

you can even specify what utf-8 characters to embed if you want non-roman characters

load the published font .swf into your .swf

[code lang="actionscript"]

var myLoader:Loader = new Loader();

myLoader.load(...path to your font.swf)

[/code]

…upon load…

[code lang="actionscript"]

var font:Font = MovieClip(myLoader.content).myFont as Font;

[/code]

…you must register the font in order to use it…

[code lang="actionscript"]

Font.registerFont(font)

[/code]

…then format you text as you normally would with an embedded font.

[code lang="actionscript"]

textFormat.font = font

textField.embedFonts = true;

textField.text = "text goes here"

textField.setTextFormat(textFormat);[/code]

hope that helps.