Runtime Embedding of Regular and Bold OpenType fonts with Actionscript

[lucidmedia]

Hi all,

I have been tussling with this all morning. Any suggestions?

Writing all actionscript in Flex 3 editor.

I am embedding fonts in an SWF then downloading the swf and registering fonts at runtime.

Its working fine with different typefaces, but I cannot get access to a regular and bold version of the same font.

Below I am embedding the fonts. I have also tried to use "FontFamily" instead of "FontName" option, with no luck.

package {
    import flash.display.Sprite;

    public class EDC_fonts extends Sprite
    {
        // embed two fonts into an SWF
        [Embed(source="/fonts/MeliorLTStd.otf", fontName='emMelior', mimeType='application/x-font')]
        public static var MeliorFont:Class;
        
        [Embed(source="/fonts/DINOT-Regular.otf", fontStyle = 'regular', fontName='emDIN', mimeType='application/x-font')]
        public static var DinFont:Class;
        
       [Embed(source="/fonts/DINOT-Bold.otf", fontStyle = 'bold', fontName='emDINbold', mimeType='application/x-font')]
        public static var DinBoldFont:Class;
    }
}

once the SWF has downloaded, I pull the fonts in like this (this is part of a loader):

var EDC_fonts:Class = event.target.applicationDomain.getDefinition("EDC_fonts") as Class;  
                        
Font.registerFont(EDC_fonts.MeliorFont);                    
Font.registerFont(EDC_fonts.DinBoldFont);          
Font.registerFont(EDC_fonts.DinFont);

I have been unable to get access to both normal and bold weights of DIN. Whichever weight is registered last becomes the "regular" weight of the type, make sense?

I can't seem to find much documentation on this, so any help would be greatly appreciated!!

[lucidmedia]

ok, I swapped out FontStyle with FontWeight, but this has led to a more challenging problem:

the following code pulls an error saying the bold font cannot be found!

Is there a different technique for embedding opentype fonts?

package {
    import flash.display.Sprite;

    public class EDC_fonts extends Sprite
    {
        // embed two fonts into an SWF
        [Embed(source="/fonts/MeliorLTStd.otf", fontName='emMelior', mimeType='application/x-font')]
        public static var MeliorFont:Class;
        
        [Embed(source="/fonts/DINOT-Regular.otf", fontFamily='emDIN', mimeType='application/x-font')]
        public static var DinFont:Class;
        
       [Embed(source="/fonts/DINOT-Bold.otf",  fontWeight = 'bold', fontFamily='emDIN', mimeType='application/x-font')]
        public static var DinBoldFont:Class;
    }
}

I get the same issue whether I use the FontFamily or FontName directive

[lucidmedia]

the following works: Opentype fonts with multiple weights have to be embedded by name as a system font -- I could not load it from the font file.

package {
    import flash.display.Sprite;

    public class EDC_fonts extends Sprite
    {
        // embed two fonts into an SWF
        [Embed(source="/fonts/MeliorLTStd.otf", fontName='emMelior', mimeType='application/x-font')]
        public static var MeliorFont:Class;
        
        [Embed(systemFont='DINOT-Regular', fontFamily='emDIN', mimeType='application/x-font')]
        public static var DinFont:Class;
        
       [Embed(systemFont="DINOT-Bold", fontWeight='bold', fontFamily='emDIN', mimeType='application/x-font')]
        public static var DinBoldFont:Class;
    }
}