Font Symbols: why can't you embed?

[davidterranova]

Hallo....

haven't used font symbols in quite a while now: I've created a font symbol in the library, but the textbox doesn't let me embed any characters... it automatically gets set to "Use device fonts"

whats going on?

[mooska]

You`ve probably choosen _sans or _serif font, these are device fonts, try to use something else.
Embeding fonts via properties panel doesn`t use font object from library, it is used to embed fonts with ascript

[davidterranova]

You`ve probably choosen _sans or _serif font, these are device fonts, try to use something else.
no, the font is neither of those.

Embeding fonts via properties panel doesn`t use font object from library, it is used to embed fonts with ascript
do you mean that you can't embed characters on a font that is a font-symbol?

[mooska]

Of course you can, but with something like this
var tf = new TextFormat();
tf.font = "library_linkage";
my_field.embedFonts = true;
my_field.text = "my_text";
my_field.setTextFormat(tf);
link your fla, if you can.

[davidterranova]

no, i know that.... i'm setting up something that will be used by designers who aren't actionscript savvy, so I need the options to be available on the properties panel.

really annoying