embedded font displays no text (as3) - actionscript-3

Question

using flash develop. so i downloaded "source sans" font from here: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Source+Sans+Pro?selection.family=Source+Sans+Pro
it has a bunch of ttf files, "bold, italic, etc" im guessing i only need one, so i copied the regular one to my src folder, renamed it to "SourceSansPro", right clicked on my src folder and add new font library. i named it "SourceSansPro". and heres my code now:
main class:
package
{
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.text.TextFormat;
public class Main extends Sprite
{
private var format:TextFormat = new TextFormat("SourceSansPro");
private var text:TextField = new TextField;
public function Main()
{
text.embedFonts = true;
text.setTextFormat(format);
text.text = "abcdefg";
addChild(text);
}
}
}
the font library thing:
/**
Suggested workflow:
- create a fontLibrary subfolder in your project (NOT in /bin or /src)
- for example: /lib/fontLibrary
- copy font files in this location
- create a FontLibrary class in the same location
- one font library can contain several font classes (duplicate embed and registration code)
FlashDevelop QuickBuild options: (just press Ctrl+F8 to compile this library)
#mxmlc -o bin/SourceSansPro.swf -static-link-runtime-shared-libraries=true -noplay
*/
package
{
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.text.Font;
/**
* Font library
* #author 111
*/
public class SourceSansPro extends Sprite
{
/*
Common unicode ranges:
Uppercase : U+0020,U+0041-U+005A
Lowercase : U+0020,U+0061-U+007A
Numerals : U+0030-U+0039,U+002E
Punctuation : U+0020-U+002F,U+003A-U+0040,U+005B-U+0060,U+007B-U+007E
Basic Latin : U+0020-U+002F,U+0030-U+0039,U+003A-U+0040,U+0041-U+005A,U+005B-U+0060,U+0061-U+007A,U+007B-U+007E
Latin I : U+0020,U+00A1-U+00FF,U+2000-U+206F,U+20A0-U+20CF,U+2100-U+2183
Latin Ext. A: U+0100-U+01FF,U+2000-U+206F,U+20A0-U+20CF,U+2100-U+2183
Latin Ext. B: U+0180-U+024F,U+2000-U+206F,U+20A0-U+20CF,U+2100-U+2183
Greek : U+0374-U+03F2,U+1F00-U+1FFE,U+2000-U+206f,U+20A0-U+20CF,U+2100-U+2183
Cyrillic : U+0400-U+04CE,U+2000-U+206F,U+20A0-U+20CF,U+2100-U+2183
Armenian : U+0530-U+058F,U+FB13-U+FB17
Arabic : U+0600-U+06FF,U+FB50-U+FDFF,U+FE70-U+FEFF
Hebrew : U+05B0-U+05FF,U+FB1D-U+FB4F,U+2000-U+206f,U+20A0-U+20CF,U+2100-U+2183
About 'embedAsCFF' attribute:
- is Flex 4 only (comment out to target Flex 2-3)
- is 'true' by default, meaning the font is embedded for the new TextLayout engine only
- you must set explicitely to 'false' for use in regular TextFields
More information:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Flex/4.0/UsingSDK/WS2db454920e96a9e51e63e3d11c0bf69084-7f5f.html
*/
[Embed(source="SourceSansPro.ttf"
,fontFamily ='SourceSansPro'
,fontStyle ='normal' // normal|italic
,fontWeight ='normal' // normal|bold
,unicodeRange='U+0020-U+002F,U+0030-U+0039,U+003A-U+0040,U+0041-U+005A,U+005B-U+0060,U+0061-U+007A,U+007B-U+007E'
,embedAsCFF='false'
)]
public static const fontClass:Class;
public function SourceSansPro()
{
Font.registerFont(fontClass);
}
}
}
so in main, if text.embedFonts is false it will show the default font, if its true it will show up blank.
any help?
edit - new code
package
{
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.text.TextFormat;
import flash.text.Font;
public class Main extends Sprite
{
private var format:TextFormat = new TextFormat("libel");
private var text:TextField = new TextField;
public function Main()
{
[Embed(source="libel.ttf"
,fontFamily ='libel'
,fontStyle ='normal' // normal|italic
,fontWeight ='normal' // normal|bold
,unicodeRange='U+0020-U+002F,U+0030-U+0039,U+003A-U+0040,U+0041-U+005A,U+005B-U+0060,U+0061-U+007A,U+007B-U+007E'
,embedAsCFF='false'
)]
Font.registerFont();
text.embedFonts = true;
text.setTextFormat(format);
text.text = "abcdefg";
addChild(text);
}
}
}

Answer 1

This is what you probably want.
package
{
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.text.TextFormat;
import flash.text.Font;
public class Main extends Sprite
{
// After the [Embed] tag you need
// a variable definition it is linked to.
[Embed(source="libel.ttf", fontFamily='libel')]
private var Libel:Class;
public function Main()
{
// In order to share the font with the whole application,
// you need to provide its class to the method.
Font.registerFont(Libel);
var aFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat;
aFormat.font = "libel";
// ... other format properties here.
var aField:TextField = new TextField;
// This way you will see that
// TextField even if fonts don't render.
aField.border = true;
// Setting the default text format is a good idea here.
aField.embedFonts = true;
aField.setTextFormat(aFormat);
aField.defaultTextFormat = aFormat;
aField.text = "abcdefg";
addChild(aField);
}
}
}