Font not embedding - what am I doing wrong?

[bunner bob]

On my dev machine fonts are showing up fine, but on my test machine they're not. Here's what I did:

1. Create new font symbol in library. Choose the font I want to use.

2. Create some dynamic text fields (because I need to be able to name them). Put text in them. Didn't select "embed" in the text properties.

3. Choose my font symbol (has asterisk after the name) for each text field.

4. Go back to the font symbol and tell it to export for actionscript, in first frame.

But no good - I'm getting device fonts. Did I miss something? Well of course I did - but what?

- Bob

[kkbbcute]

You have to embed the font yourself by pressing the embed button under the text properties in Flash, be sure not to embed characters that you do not use, such as Japanese or Chinese.

[bunner bob]

Actually what I did was, in actionscript, enter [fieldname].embedFonts.

But I could have done it in text properties instead, eh? Good to know.

Normally I tend to build and style my text fields in actionscript, but this was a quickie and I thought, hey, I can just do it this way. Funny how sometimes what seems like the easy way trips you up because you're used to doing it the "hard" way:)

[kkbbcute]

Actually what I did was, in actionscript, enter [fieldname].embedFonts.

But I could have done it in text properties instead, eh? Good to know.

Normally I tend to build and style my text fields in actionscript, but this was a quickie and I thought, hey, I can just do it this way. Funny how sometimes what seems like the easy way trips you up because you're used to doing it the "hard" way:)

Agreed, and I do it the "hard" way sometimes too anyway.