Comments on: Create Font SWFs easily in FDT

By: Enhance your FDT setup even further with Eclipse plugins & Ant scripts

Enhance your FDT setup even further with Eclipse plugins & Ant scripts — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:06:57 +0000

[...] FontCreator Another great Ant script to put in to your toolkit is Ant script; FontCreator from Martin Rädlinger, This as you can imagine makes embedding font’s a little easier with the ability to specify all the params needed to properly embed a font. Walked through stage by stage then created as a single font actionscript file, A perfect fit in my workflow. [...]

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 21 May 2010 07:32:38 +0000

It's not very straightforward to get a class out of an embedded swf, but it's possible ... I put an example here: http://blog.formatlos.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/EmbedFontSWF.as

By: Frederik

Frederik — Wed, 19 May 2010 08:52:43 +0000

Hey Martin,

excellent Tool! Can you provide a short snippet on how to use fonts embedded in swfs which are embedded themselves?

Such as:
package framework.font { public class MyFontLib { [Embed(source="../../../lib/font/MyFont.swf", fontName="MyFont", fontWeight="normal")] private var myFont : Class; } }

When I now iterate over my enumeratedFonts, I see the embedded font but it is not showing up in my textfields. Any hints?

Thanks in Advance!

Frederik

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:30:12 +0000

@Jon cool … I’m very much looking forward to it

By: Jon Williams

Jon Williams — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:22:15 +0000

Oh, and if you care about kerning pairs (you might not), your only choices (that I’m aware of) are my tool or the Windows Flash IDE :(

By: Jon Williams

Jon Williams — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:19:37 +0000

@Martin: Ah, but it will soon :) Definitely plan to add character ranges and an override on the font name.

Influencing the font weight/style works a bit differently than expected — most individual font files only contain the outlines for one weight/style pair, and if your embed code doesn’t match, the compiler will throw a transcoding error. My tool introspects the font and determines this info automatically.

No, I probably won’t ever let you upload a class template, but in practice I’ve found this isn’t actually necessary. (Lucky for me, I control the template, eh?)

And totally agreed — use what works best for your flow.

By the way, I’ve been digging deep into ANT this week, and you’ve exposed me to a whole world of new goodies. Thanks!

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:15:24 +0000

Hey Jon … your font to swf compiler is easy, but the user doesn’t have any influence on the output (embedded chars, font weight, font style, …) or the class used for compiling the font. that’s probably insufficient for most use cases.

btw. there are loads of smart tools out there for font to swf compiling. use the one which fits to your workflow best

http://www.squidder.com/fontswfcreator/
http://kevincao.com/app/font/

By: Jon Williams

Jon Williams — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:55:22 +0000

heh. Very, very nice, but how about even easier than that?

Step 1) Upload Font
Step 2) There is no step 2.

http://karoshiethos.com/2010/03/03/flash-and-kerning/

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:42:05 +0000

sure the ANT script does exactly the same thing, but you can compile fonts without having to know AS3 code and syntax and the generated fonts are ready for loading at runtime

By: Ain Tohvri

Ain Tohvri — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:33:16 +0000

Trying again: Embed system fonts with Flex SDK http://tekkie.flashbit.net/flash/as/embed-system-fonts-with-flex-sdk

That you can do using even the open-source AXDT on Eclipse with Flex SDK.