Embedded Fonts in AS3 and IE: Is the syntax correct? - actionscript-3

Question

I spent a good bit of time this morning trying multiple solutions I found throughout the site but unfortunately, none of them truly worked. Here's the problem. I believe that my process of font embedding is working because I purposely removed the fonts from my machine and I see them showing up in the flash player. However, they do not show up on our Windows test machine (in either IE or FF) and I can't seem to figure out why. As I mentioned, I tried several of the solutions found throughout the site but it didn't seem to make a difference. Here is excepts of the class and constructor that I have built:
public class MyClass {
[Embed(source = "../../fonts/DroidSans.ttf",
fontName = "DroidSans",
mimeType = "application/x-font-truetype",
fontWeight = "normal",
fontStyle = "normal",
unicodeRange = "U+0041-U+005A, U+0061-U+007A, U+0030-U+0039, U+002E-U+002E",
embedAsCFF = "false")]
private var droidSansFont:Class;
[Embed(source = "../../fonts/DroidSans-Bold.ttf",
fontName = "DroidSansBold",
mimeType = "application/x-font-truetype",
fontWeight = "normal",
fontStyle = "normal",
unicodeRange = "U+0041-U+005A, U+0061-U+007A, U+0030-U+0039, U+002E-U+002E",
embedAsCFF = "false")]
private var droidSansBoldFont:Class;
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public function MyClass() {
_flVersion = String(flash.system.Capabilities.version);
_baseFont = (_flVersion.indexOf("10,") != -1) ? "Arial" : "DroidSans";
_boldFont = (_flVersion.indexOf("10,") != -1) ? "Arial" : "DroidSansBold";
buttonFormat = new TextFormat();
buttonFormat.font = _baseFont;
buttonFormat.size = 10;
buttonFormat.color = 0x000000;
buttonFormat.bold = false;
buttonFormat.align = "center";
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}
}
If anyone can offer up a solution or point me in the right direction, it would be most helpful.

Answer 1

Are you setting embedFonts=true on your TextField?
And be careful with version test:
_flVersion.indexOf("10,")!=-1
This could match anywhere in the version String. You negaitve logic is confusing me a little, but thinking carefully, you check will DISABLE embeded fonts in Flash Player versions, for example: 10,1,100 and 12,10,115
Assuming you do intend to disable embedded fonts in FP10, you could possibly change your condition to the following (which won't match 12,10,115):
_flVersion.indexOf("10,")==0
I'd then put this in a commented getter function to make your code more readable:
// No embedded fonts for flash player 10
private static var _flVersion:String = String(flash.system.Capabilities.version);
private function get use_embedded_fonts():Boolean {
return _flVersion.indexOf("10,")!=0;
}
Also, you'll only want to set the embed flag when using the embedded Droid font and not Arial:
_baseFont = (!use_embedded_fonts) ? "Arial" : "DroidSans";
_boldFont = (!use_embedded_fonts) ? "Arial" : "DroidSansBold";
_embed_flag = use_embedded_fonts;
textfield.embedFonts = _embed_flag;
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