Open Library, on the right hand side click “New Font…” and select the font you want. Here’s the gotcha: the name is NOT the linkage.

To add the linkage you have to add your font to the library, and THEN right-click and select “Linkage…”. Call it “Font1″ and the code above will work.

I’ve spent hours trying to figure this out. Such a stupid UI misstep made by the CS3 team…

ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable Font1 is not defined.
at global/flash.utils::getDefinitionByName()
at Test()

http://www.zedia.net/2007/using-embedded-fonts-in-flash-cs3-using-actionscript-3/

Andre << your code has a smiley face in it, how is that standard?

for anyone using flex 3 not flash cs3 do this to embed the font

[Embed(source='../../../assets/fonts/urfont.otf',
fontName='urfont',
mimeType='application/x-font'
)]
private var fontclass:Class;

var embeddedFontClass:Class = fontclass;

Please, be extremely specific of the context when you throw something like this into cyberspace. Try to eliminate ALL guessing.

package {
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.text.Font;
import flash.utils.getDefinitionByName;

public class SimpleTextPaneTestDrive01 extends Sprite {
var embeddedFont:Font = null;

function SimpleTextPaneTestDrive01() {
var embeddedFontClass:Class = getDefinitionByName(“Font1″) as Class;
var embeddedFontsArray:Array = Font.enumerateFonts(false);
var fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
var tf:TextField = new TextField();

Font.registerFont(embeddedFontClass);
embeddedFont = embeddedFontsArray[0];

fmt.color =0xffffff;
fmt.size = 16;
fmt.font = embeddedFont.fontName;

tf.text = “hello world!”;
tf.setTextFormat(fmt);
}
}
}